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Participatory Radio Campaigns and Food Security: How Radio Can Help Farmers Make Informed Decisions

Kevin Perkins, Doug Ward, Mark Leclair

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 88 pp.

"The African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) was a 42-month action research project implemented by Farm Radio International (FRI) in partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An estimated 40 million farmers in five ... more

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The Power of Global Community Media
Inspiring Practice

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, revised paperback ed. (2011), xix, 272 pp.

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Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency

Mohan J. Dutta

New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 342 pp.

"Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and sustain oppressive conditions. Author Mohan J. Dutta describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politic ... more

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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account

John R. Postill

New York et al.: Berghahn (2011), xxv, 150 pp.

"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma ... more

Guía para radios y televisiones sobre la promoción del contenido generado por el usuario y la alfabetización mediática e informacional

Martin Scott

Barcelona: Editorial UOC;UNESCO;Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación (UAB) (2011), 125 pp.

News on the Go: How Mobile Devices Are Changing the World’s Information Ecosystem

Dale Peskin

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.

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Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

Nico Carpentier

Bristol: intellect (2011), 405 pp.

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Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

Jane B. Singer et al.

Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xi, 227 pp.

"This book is based on a collaborative research project by a team of journalism scholars from Europe, North America and Israel. It provides insights into how journalists at websites affiliated with leading national newspapers in ten Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclu ... more

Participatory Mapping and Communication: A Guide to Developing a Participatory Communication Strategy to Support Participatory Mapping

Jon Corbett

Rome: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (2010), 24 pp.

"This publication focuses on participatory communication and seeks to provide guidance to IFAD staff on developing a participatory communication strategy to strengthen the impact of participatory mapping initiatives. The publication is a follow-up to The IFAD adaptive approach to participatory mappi ... more

Participatory Communication: A Practical Guide

Thomas Tufte, Paolo Mefalopulos

Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), v, 50 pp.

"This publication is an easy-to-read introduction to current concepts and practices of development communication. It consists of four parts. The first chapter distinguishes between three main conceptual approaches to development communication: the diffusion model, the life skills model and the parti ... more

Youth Engaging with the World: Media Communication and Social Change

Thomas Tufte, Florencia Enghel (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2009), 341 pp.

"The Yearbook 2009 focuses on youth as a generation of actors and citizens who are increasingly exposed to and making use of media/ICT for entertainment and informational purposes, for social networking and mobilization, and for knowledge sharing. At the core of this creativity and these innovative ... more

Participatory Content Creation: Voice, Communication, and Development

Jo Tacchi, Jerry Watkins, Kosala Keerthirathne

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 573-584

"This article uses the example of a mobile mixed-media platform – a converted three-wheeled autorickshaw – in Sri Lanka in order to explore whether and how content-creation activities can enable marginalised communities to have a voice. It draws upon research into participatory content-creation ... more

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Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World
Top Insights

John Hartley, Kelly McWilliam (eds.)

Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xvi, 307 pp.

"Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape. It covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling y ... more

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CINEDUC – Education Through Cinema: Introduction and Guide to the Method

Timo Weinacht, Denise Umutoni, Pascal Mwema, Inés Huwe

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2009), 62 pp.

"CINEDUC is an innovative educational method which uses cinema and participative discussion methods to facilitate access to information about topics associated with development. The method was developed as part of a project implemented by the German Development Service (DED) and its partners in Rwan ... more

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Communication for Participatory Development: Dialogue, Action, and Change

D. Lawrence Kincaid, María Elena Figueroa

In: Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research

Lawrence R. Frey; Kenneth N. Cissna (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2009), pp. 506-531

"Our review of relevant literature identified the following eight issues related to communication for participatory development: 1. The concept of development needs to be reformulated in a manner that applies to human development in local communities, as well as the traditional focus on national dev ... elopment. 2. Participatory development requires dialogue—a symmetrical, two-way process of communication, but many prevailing approaches to development communication use an asymmetrical, one-way process of communication. 3. No model of the development process reconciles the demand for social change at the community level and the need for requisite changes at the individual level. 4. Scholars and practitioners agree that community members should determine the goals of development themselves, but the problem-specific nature of funding often means that external change agents impose development goals on communities. External change agents can play the valuable role of catalyst and facilitate the process, but motivation and leadership needs to come from within a community itself. 5. The role of confl ict in communication generally is ignored in participatory development, even though it is common feature of most communities. Therefore, a model of the process needs to recognize conflict and suggest methods to manage it. 6. Ownership, self-determination, and social change are considered necessary to build community capacity and to sustain the process of development without further outside stimuli. 7. Communities should have access to local media, such as community radio, posters/billboards, traveling theater groups, and even cell phones, to produce content for their development objectives rather than rely on content originating from external sources that primarily serve the purposes of those sources. 8. Self-assessment needs to guide the process and motivate sustained, collective action. A model of participatory development, thus, needs to be theoretically sound and useful to communication scholars but also useful to community leaders and communication practitioners. The model of communication for participatory development that we use to organize and synthesize the literature addresses these eight key issues, and it provides a tool useful for both research and practice. Specifically, because development is assumed to be “people oriented,” communication for participatory development needs to be based on dialogue, conflict management, and mutual understanding and agreement." Pages 507-508) more

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Giving Voice: Instigating Debate on Issues of Citizenship, Participation, and Accountability

Samuel Ayedime Kafewo

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 678-687

"While there is a near unanimity on the need for participation, there is as yet no such agreement on the type and degree of participation to be adopted in projects. One thing that has never been doubted is the fact that local people have not been accorded their rightful recognition and respect by mo ... more

Wikiworld: Political Economy of Digital Literacy, and the Promise of Participatory Media

Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén

Tampere: Paulo Freire Research Center;University of Tampere, Hypermedialab (2008), 204 pp.

Women's Empowerment and Good Governance Through Community Radio: Best Experiences for an Action Research Process

Marcelo Solervicens (ed.)

Montreal: AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2008), 122 pp.

Grassroots, Participatory Communication

African Communication Research , volume 1, issue 1 (2008), 137 pp.

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