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Towards a circular theory of communication: The case of the Wayusa ritual of the traditional Kichwa people of Sarayaku

Ana Cristina Suzina

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 8 (2024), pp. 145-167

"The Wayusa is a community ritual that is part of the exercise of political imagination among the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku, in Ecuador. In this article it will be discussed as a case study arguing towards a circular theory of communication, emerging from the works of ... more

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Will It Be Different If I Give It Another Name? Methodologic Notes from Research with Riverside Communities in the Amazon Forest (Brazil and Ecuador)

Ana Cristina Suzina

Forum for Development Studies (2024), 24 pp.

"What makes a piece of research decolonial? Do participatory or co-creative approaches make research participatory and co-creative? These reflections are raised in this article, which looks back at methodological choices made and adapted during a three-year study with riverside communities in the Am ... more

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JMM, 80 anos: Memórias e legado no campo da comunicação no Brasil

Ivanise Hilbig de Andrade, Nara Lya Cabral Scabin, Genio Nascimento (eds.)

São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2024), 227 pp.

"Em 2023, o professor José Marques de Melo, se estivesse vivo, completaria 80 anos de idade. Com certeza, ainda estaria organizando algum evento científico ou escrevendo um novo livro. Em sua trajetória, marcada por um trabalho pioneiro de pesquisa e de ensino da Comunicação no Brasil, Marques ... more

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Uma rádio universitária reconfigurada: A experiência da emissora criada pelo educador Paulo Freire

Giovana Borges Mesquita, Gustavo Cabrera Christiansen

Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, volume 22, issue 44 (2023), pp. 204-215

"O artigo é um relato de experiência da rádio universitária brasileira Paulo Freire, que em 2023 completa 60 anos, analisando como ela se reconfigurou, reinventando suas rotinas profissionais, ... more

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Esperançar com Freire: Reflexões sobre comunicação e mudança social

Ailton Krenak, Ana Cristina Suzina, Anita Gurumurthy et al.

Instituto Ubíqua (2023), 188 pp.

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Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change

Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Paulo Freire (honoured person)

Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures;Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.

"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences al ... more

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Comunicação e sociedade: Métodos freirianos

Sônia Jaconi, Nair Prata, Rodrigo Gabrioti (eds.)

Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 139 pp.

"Ler – no sentido pleno da etimologia latina, de 'colher com os olhos' – as páginas deste Comunicação e sociedade: métodos freirianos, é um alento em tempos em que a educação se instrumentalizou a serviço do capital e a comunicação reduziu-se à esfera da midiatização. Sobre o conjun ... more

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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil

David Nemer

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xi, 218 pp.

"David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by ... more

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Comunicação e resistência: Práticas de liberdade para a cidadania

Nair Prata, Fábia Lima (org.)

São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 212 pp.

"Este livro apresenta as discussões promovidas no âmbito do 44º Ciclo de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação, evento integrante do 44º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, realizado de 4 a 9 de outubro de 2021, em modo virtual, pela Universidade Católica de Pernambuco. Em ... more

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Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change

Alankar Kaushik, Abir Suchiang (eds.)

Singapore: Springer (2022), xxi, 318 pp.

"This volume focuses on indigenous knowledge in analyzing the traditions and communication processes within various communities of Northeast India. It deals with the historical and theoretical trajectory of communication for social change as a discipline, bringing together a series of interesting ca ... more

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Diálogos críticos y perspectivas actuales de investigación y pensamiento sobre comunicación en Latinoamérica

Gissela Dávila Cobo (ed.)

Quito: CIESPAL (2022), 304 pp.

"Con el número 150 que presentamos en esta ocasión celebramos sus 50 años, con un monográfico especial sobre la veta del pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, que lleva el título de "Diálogos críticos y perspectivas actuales de investigación y pensamiento sobre comunicación en Latinoaméric ... more

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The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory

Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 515 pp.

"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver ... more

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Paulo Freire, 100 anos

Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284

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Paulo Freire, 100 Years

Adilson Citelli, Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284

"Only one of Freire’s (1969/1983) books directly and more broadly addresses the scope of communication; it is 'Extension or Communication?' published in 1969, originally in Spanish, during Freire’s exile in Chile. This book became an important reference for the studies and practices of participa ... more

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Encuentros de Paulo Freire con la comunicación

Punto de Encuentro , volume 10, issue 134 (2021), pp. 3-31

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The Legacy of Paulo Freire. Contemporary Reflections on Participatory Communication and Civil Society Development in Brazil and Beyond

Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte, César Jiménez-Martínez (eds.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 5 (2020), pp. 407-503

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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 participato ... 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

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The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change

Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano

In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2018), 19 pp.

"Paulo Freire (1921–1997) was the father of critical pedagogy, popular education, and participatory action research (PAR), as well as a basic reference of liberation theology and of Latin Americ ... more

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Fifty Years of Practice and Innovation Participatory Video (PV)

Tony Roberts, Soledad Muñiz

In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2018), 17 pp.

"Benefiting from more than 50 years of practice and innovation, participatory video (PV) is a firmly established approach in the field of communications for development. The term “participatory video” is used to refer to a very wide range of practices that involve nonprofessionals in making thei ... more

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