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Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), xvii, 397 pp.

"This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Outlining the genealogy and history of the field, it then investigates the possible new directions and obje ... more

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Community Radio for Social Change: Restoring Decentralized Democratic Discursive Spaces

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik

In: Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 190-212

"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the ... more

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Participatory Communication and Action for a Sustainable Environment

Elske van de Fliert

In: Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 142-153

"Sustainability has been a guiding principle in development for long but gained renewed impetus through the worldwide adoption of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals following the increasingly tangible environmental and social effects of climate change. Achieving sustainable developm ... more

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Multidimensional Model for Change: A Comprehensive C4D-Based Framework for Sustainable Development

Paolo Mefalopulos

In: Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 213-232

"This chapter presents the Multidimensional Model for Change (MMC), an innovative model aimed at improving people’s life; it includes the elements of the Communication-Based Assessment (CBA) and Communication Needs Assessment (CNA) frameworks. It is based on a mix of theories of change management ... more

Communications on Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss with Local Populations: Exploring Best-Practices and Postcolonial Moments in Eight Case Studies from Across the Globe

Dawud Ansari et al.

Berlin: DIW Berlin (2021), 51 pp.

"[...] in this article, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for a panel of eight case studies (covering four continents) [Amazon rainforest, Brazil; Colombia; India; Bangaldesh; Egypt; Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania; Baltic Sea, Germany; Isles of Scilly, UK] ] of communicat ... more

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Radio, Public Life and Citizen Deliberation in South Africa

Sarah Chiumbu, Gilbert Motsaathebe (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 286 pp.

"As the most widespread and popular form of communication in the country, radio occupies an essential space in the deliberation and the construction of public opinion in South Africa. From just a few state-controlled stations during the apartheid era, there are now more than 100 radio stations, reac ... more

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Putting People First: Participatory Development Communication and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

Guy Bessette

In: Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 233-244

"Most effective agriculture, environment and natural resource management projects tend to be those in which community members, development practitioners or agriculture experts jointly identify research or development parameters and participate in the decision-making process. In these projects, commu ... more

Amazonia – el desafío de comunicar la diversidad. Los casos de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
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Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 53 pp.

"Hemos constatado que existe una gran diversidad de proyectos organizados por comunicadores locales, muchas veces en alianza con otros actores de la sociedad civil, que están interesados en desarrollar ofertas de información desde y para la Amazonia. En términos generales, las iniciativas más pr ... more

The Amazon – the Challenge of Communicating Diversity. The Cases of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 53 pp.

"We have identified a great diversity of projects organized by local media producers, often in an alliance with other sectors of civil society that are interested in generating information offers from and for the Amazon. In general terms, the most promising initiatives for fostering democratic discu ... more

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Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves

Kanchan K. Malik, Vinod Pavarala (eds.)

New York et al.: Routledge (2020), 294 pp.

"This book tells the story of community radio in four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The three parts of the book focus on policy (discussed country by country), issues in practice, and case studies. In effect, however, each of the chapters touches on these topics to ... more

Participatory Communication Plan 2020

Communication for Development Initiative in Asia and the Pacific (ComDev Asia) (2020), 12 pp.

"As a regional initiative, ComDev Asia has adopted the communication framework for family farming and the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF 2019-2028). The framework emphasizes three main lines of actions directly linked to UNDFF-GAP Outcome 4.4. These are: 1) participatory communicatio ... more

De-Constructing Participatory Communication and Civil Society Development in 2020: A Perspective Inspired by Paulo Freire

Thomas Tufte, Ana Cristina Suzina, César Jiménez Martínez

Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 9, issue 2 (2020), pp. 48-78

"This article explores the “mindprint” of Paulo Freire upon processes of social change in Brazil, with a particular focus on how his liberating pedagogy has influenced practices of participatory communication and civil society development. In exploring the legacy of Freire, his work is approache ... more

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JMR’s Participatory Journalism Playbook: A Field Guide to Listening and Reporting with Communities

Jesikah Maria Ross

Internews (2020), 26 pp.

"The guide aims to make what community engagement practitioners do visible and demonstrate why it matters. We’re not walking Rolodexes for reporters to tap, nor are we party planners or social media administrators. We create spaces and processes for the people we want to serve to articulate their ... more

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Shifting the Power: A Toolkit for Journalists and Communicators

London: On Our Radar (2020), 56 pp.

"This guide will offer a range of tools and methods that can be used to promote a more inclusive form of journalism and storytelling, with marginalised groups and individuals. It’s based on over half a decade of experience and making award-winning, high-impact content in collaboration with reporte ... more

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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.

"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa ... ” – explore in detail projects in Nigeria, Burundi and Burkina Faso that used a communication intervention approach advanced by the Population Media Center. Other chapters in the Handbook take the reader to Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and beyond. Song Shi examines “ICTs and Modernization in China,” revealing that assumptions and theories of the modernization paradigm have significantly influenced the policies and projects on ICT4D in contemporary China. And, Song Shi writes, discussion on the potential of other approaches in ICT4D in China has also emerged among scholars. Hina Ayaz discusses the “Multiplicity Approach in Participatory Communication” in Pakistan – wherein the country adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – only to run into negative perceptions and banning of polio vaccinations. However, a shift to a more successful approach, grounded in UNICEF’s social mobilization and communityinvolvement communication strategy, brought significant success. While many of the Handbook case studies incorporate participation as a significant development factor, they also address a wide range of social and political issues including, for example, civic engagement, sexual harassment, empowerment, and community voices. In addition to an abundance of case studies from around the world, the Handbook delves into various research methods that are being used to understand and design communication for development and social change interventions [...] Handbook editor Jan Servaes' own chapter (with Rico Lie), “Key Concepts, Disciplines, and Fields in Communication for Development and Social Change ” identifies five clusters of concepts and practices that are evident in the field today and which determine the activities and approaches in communication for sustainable development and social change interventions: The clusters are (1) a normative cluster of concepts; (2) a cluster of concepts that sets an important context for communication activities for development; (3) a cluster of strategic and methodological concepts; (4) a cluster of concepts that relate to methods, techniques, and tools; and (5) a cluster of concepts that addresses the practices of advocacy, (participatory) monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment. The authors extend their discussion into three subdivisions: (1) health communication, (2) agricultural extension and rural communication, and (3) environmental communication (including climate change communication). This leads the reader into issues related to (1) right to communicate; (2) education and learning; (3) innovation, science, and technology; (4) natural resource management; (5) food security; (6) poverty reduction; (7) peace and conflict; (8) children and youth, women, and senior citizens; and (9) tourism. Some of the forerunners of development communication have not been forgotten. In “Daniel Lerner and the Origins of Development Communication”, Hemant Shah links Lerner’s 1958 book Passing of Traditional Society to today’s modernization and faith in technology to solve social problems. Also contributing to the foundation of this field is Paulo Freire who contributed much to idea that participation should be a vital part of the development dialogue. Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano’s chapter on "The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change" highlights his main work Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a "before-and-after" in the fields of education, research, and communication, initially in Latin America and later in both North and South. Particularly in the case of development communication and communication for social change, the author stresses, Freire’s work had a definitive impact ..." (Review by Royal Donald Colle, Journal of Development Communication, vol. 30 (2), page 92-94) more

Photography as Dialogue

Tiffany Fairey, Liz Orton

Photography & Culture, volume 12, issue 3 (2019), pp. 299-305

"About 10 years ago we started sending each other images, back and forth, via email. Each photograph had to respond to the one just received. We have so far exchanged over 260 photographs, sharing snippets of family life, abstraction, travels, loss and humor. When we started, we had no particular pl ... more

La radio comme outil de communication opérationnelle et d’engagement avec les communautés
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Adrien Zerbini

Lausanne; Dakar: Fondation Hirondelle;International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC);Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Centre régional de Communication (2019), 18 pp.

"Du 21 au 23 novembre 2018, huit chargés de communication d’Afrique francophone du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) dont le mandat est de venir en aide aux populations affectées par les conflits armés, se sont réunis à Dakar pour échanger leurs expériences d’utilisation de l ... more

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‘Meaningful Participation’: Exploring the Value of Limited Participation for Community Radio Listeners

Bridget Backhaus

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 253-270

"Community radio represents an opportunity for audiences to play a lead role in the production, dissemination and ownership of media channels and content. The active participation of audiences is one of the primary differences between community radio stations and their commercial and state-run count ... more

Collective Communication and Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action: How to Guide for Leaders and Responders
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CDAC Network (2019), 75 pp.

"This guide suggests practices to support an active role for communities in humanitarian services and decision-making, improve access to information and keep people connected to support their own ways of coping. It emphasises a collective approach where humanitarian actors coordinate, collaborate an ... more