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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
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Elizabeth McCall

New York: Bureau for Development Policy UNDP (2011), ix, 127 pp.

This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides ... more

New Questions, New Insights, New Approaches: Contributions to the Research Forum at the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth 2010

Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson, Catharina Bucht

Göteborg: Youth and Media International Clearinghouse on Children; Nordicom (2011), 275 pp.

El promotor internacional de la comunicación para el cambio social

Luis Ramiro Beltrán

Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (Quito), issue 116 (2011), pp. 12-16

"El autor presenta una síntesis del pensamiento del comunicador boliviano Alfonso Gumucio y su propuesta acerca de la comunicación para el cambio social, partiendo de la historia del pensamiento comunicacional latinoamericano y ubicando al autor en la línea de tiempo de influencia y de evolución ... more

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Comunicar para transformar, transformar para comunicar: Tecnologías de la información, organizaciones sociales y comunicación desde una perspectiva de cambio social

Víctor Marí Sáez

Madrid: Editorial Popular (2011), 235 pp.

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Medios que mueven: Entretenimiento educativo para el cambio social
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Virginia Lacayo, Arvind Singhal

La Haya: Oxfam Novib (2011), 82 pp.

Re-Visiting Latin American Cultural and Media Studies

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-172

"This new issue of Westminster Papers of Communication and Culture is dedicated for the first time to Latin America, and by re-visiting the cultural and communication standpoints undertaken in the region, it will help to address the ongoing questions on globalisation, and cultural hybridisation from ... more

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Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change
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Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie, Gerry Power (eds.)

Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2011), xxiii, 324 pp.

"By assessing edutainment as a space of cultural translation, Drama for Development advances an often neglected perspective in this topics' research. It focuses on what happens when various goals, worldviews and needs from donors, producers and the audiences come together in the production and meani ... more

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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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Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social: Interrelaciones entre comunicación, movimientos ciudadanos y medios
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José Miguel Pereira, Amparo Cadavid (eds.)

Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto); UNESCO (2011), 522 pp.

Comunicación para el Desarrollo: Una herramienta para el cambio social y la participación. Experiencias y enfoques en Uruguay

Günther Cyranek (ed.)

UN Uruguay Unesco (2010), 499 pp.

Communication for Development and Social Change: New Millenium

Emile G. McAnany

Communication Research Trends, volume 29, issue 3 (2010), pp. 3-17

"We can draw several conclusions from this review about both theory and practice in the context of this decade of the Millennium Development Goals. First, the field of C4D remains alive and thriving on the ground, but it has not gained or maintained the center of attention in the larger communicatio ... n field for some years in its mainstream journals. Much of the work to collect data and even to summarize those data has shifted to those organizations that promote practice or who collect information online. Websites of these organization may serve as better sources for data and writing about C4D than academic books or journals. It is not that there are not a number of academic institutions pursuing theory and policy studies concerning C4D (the Communication Initiative lists a large number globally), but other specialties like health, education, agronomy, policy studies, etc. have sometimes absorbed these pursuits; on the other hand communication studies have renamed their fields even though they pursue some of the same issues as before. Also, we should encourage a renewal of a more direct pursuit of C4D studies within the communication field, especially as this derives from universities close to a set of local issues (the University of the Philippines at Los Baños has provided an example of application and theory in the rural context for many decades). Second, I placed this review in the context of the Millennium Development Goals because these goals manifest the global expression of conscience for all countries. If C4D will again play a practical role in the process of solving the urgent problems of poverty, health, children, women, and the inequities that underlie these issues, then academics need to help create the theories and policies that can help eradicate the problems in both the short and long term (2015 for the MDGs). I premise this belief on the fact that people in every society live in an increasingly connected world where communication is an important reality and the study of communication is critical. This study of communication needs to look at the most urgent problems facing societies and ask how communication can help in their solution. The MDGs have defined the problems and C4D has an important role in these global challenges." (Conclusion, pages 14-15) more

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Playing with Fire: Power, Participation, and Communication for Development

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 453-465

"Communication and its role in development and social change is still poorly understood and supported by large development players, despite decades of innovative practice and positive outcomes. Gaps between discourse and action, outdated evaluation methods, short timeframes, red tape, and power rela ... more

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Communication for Development: Reinventing Theory and Action. Vol.1: Understanding Development Communication

Kiran Prasad

Delhi: B.R. Publishing (2009), xv, 286 pp.

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The Applied Theatre Reader

Tim Prentki, Sheila Preston (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2009), xvi, 380 pp.

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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

Communication et changement social en Afrique et dans les Caraïbes: Bilan et perspectives

Misse Misse, Alain Kiyindou (eds.)

Enjeux de l'Information et de la Communication (2009), 131 pp.

Pop Culture with a Purpose! Using Edutainment Media for Social Change

Virginia Lacayo, Arvind Singhal

The Hague: Oxfam Novib (2008), 53 pp.

"This publication focuses on unique communication-centered approaches to social change and introduces basic concepts, strategies and theories supporting edutainment strategies to foster social change and social movement building. It provides examples of how the organizations have used edutainment st ... more

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University Training in Communication for Development: Trends and Approaches

Linje Manyozo

Media Asia, volume 34, issue 1 (2007), pp. 51-60

"This discussion has critically appraised the two training models that universities have employed in their communication for development programmes. These are the development communication and social change approaches. While the former is rooted in sustainable livelihood approaches, the latter is fo ... more

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Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

Jim Downs (ed.)

New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2005), 191 pp.

"This volume grew out of the Why We Write conference held at Columbia University in the spring of 2003. The conference was the second part of a series of conferences organized by graduate students in the history department that explored issues related to history, social change, and the politics of w ... more