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María Teresa Mercado, María Gemma Teso (eds.)

Madrid: Tecnos (2024), 448 pp.

"Desde una aproximación ética, reconocidos profesionales con amplia experiencia en los medios y en organismos, como la Oficina Española de Cambio Climático o la Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, profesores doctores de catorce universidades, entre ellos una decena de investigadores del Observator ... more

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Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society

Marta Pérez-Escolar, José Manuel Noguera-Vivo (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxv, 252 pp.

"Delving into the meanings, implications, contexts and effects of extreme speech and gated communities in the media landscape, the chapters analyse misleading metaphors and rhetoric via focused case studies to understand how we can overcome the risks and threats stemming from the past decade's defin ... 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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La comunicación desde abajo: Historia, sentidos y prácticas de la comunicación alternativa en España

Alejandro Barranquero, Chiara Sáez Baeza (eds.)

Barcelona: Gedisa (2021), 251 pp.

"La comunicación alternativa –también denominada comunitaria, libre, ciudadana, del tercer sector o para el cambio social– es percibida como una hermana menor en las ciencias de la comunicación hasta padecer una triple invisibilización: en la historia social del campo, en relación con los m ... more

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Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges

Hilde C. Stephansen, Emiliano Treré (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxiv, 266 pp.

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Tradiciones de investigación en diálogo: Estudios sobre comunicación en América Latina y Europa

Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Gabriel Kaplún, Miguel Vicente Mariño, Leonardo Custódio (eds.)

Ramada (PO): Media XXI; Formalpress (2020), 358 pp.

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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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Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa

Claudia Cecilia Flores Pérez, Alex Iván Arévalo Salinas, Alejandro Barranquero Carretero (eds.)

Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.

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Comunicación y cambio social

Alex Iván Arévalo Salinas, Griselda Vilar Sastre, Marcial García López (eds.)

Valencia: Tirant Humanidades (2019), 241 pp.

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Cooperativas de medios en España: Un periodismo emprendedor y ciudadano en tiempos de crisis

Alejandro Barranquero Carretero, Mariá Sánchez Moncada

Revista de Estudios Cooperativos, issue 128 (2018), pp. 36-58

"En España la crisis económica ha tenido un correlato directo en el sector periodístico y conducido al cierre de medios de referencia y al aumento de los despidos y la precarización del sector. En este contexto adverso, las cooperativas de medios se han convertido en una vía de salida para much ... more

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From Media to Buen Vivir: Latin American Approaches to Indigenous Communication

Carlos Arcila Calderón, Alejandro Barranquero, Eva González Tanco

Communication Theory, volume 28, issue 2 (2018), pp. 180-201

"This article synthesizes the theoretical developments concerning Latin American indigenous communication formulated in the last decade (2005–2015). By conducting a review of the main theoretical frameworks that have deepened the issue, we observe a gradual progression from the dominance of extern ... more

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Pensar desde la experiencia: Comunicación participativa en el cambio social

Amparo Cadavid Bringe, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron (eds.)

Bogotá: Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto) (2014), 405 pp.

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Comunicación y desarrollo: Prácticas comunicativas y empoderamiento local

Marcelo A. Martínez Hermida, Francisco Sierra Caballero (coord.)

Barcelona: Gedisa (2012), 429 pp.

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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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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.

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Latinoamérica en la ruptura del paradigma de la comunicación para el desarrollo. El recorrido de los pioneros en la búsqueda de alternativas democráticas

Alejandro Barranquero

Punto Cero, volume 10, issue 11 (2005), pp. 7-22

"La rica producción intelectual y práctica en Latinoamérica parece encontrar en los últimos tiempos un merecido reconocimiento en el ámbito de la comunicación para el cambio social. Las siguientes líneas intentan evaluar el papel jugado por el continente en la ruptura del paradigma dominante ... more

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