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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

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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The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
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Chris Atton (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), xvii, 596 pp.

"The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The volume offers a multiplicity of perspectives to examine the reasons why altern ... more

Mapping Community Media Organisations in Cyprus: A Methodological Reflection

Chris Voniati, Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2018), pp. 17-32

"Identifying grassroots or ‘below-the-radar’ organisations, such as community media organisations, is a challenging task that is not always supported sufficiently by methodological literature. The objective of this article is to address this challenge by proposing a structured approach to mappin ... more

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Conceptualizing Consumption-Critical Media Practices as Political Participation

Sigrid Kannengießer

In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment

Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp et al. (eds.)

Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 197-211

"Consumption-Critical media practices are those practices which are either using media for criticising (certain) consumption or which are (consciously practiced) alternatives to the consumption of media technologies such as repairing, exchanging or producing durable media technologies. While the for ... more

Researching the Young Radio Audience

María Gutiérrez

In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment

Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp et al. (eds.)

Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 287-297

"In 2008, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) proposed some guidelines to radio broadcasters designed to activate the recovery of younger listeners. They did this after observing that radio’s penetration among the youngest sectors was in decline. According to this report, the key to halting this ... more

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Communication, Generation and Cultural Memory: Insights from Fieldwork in Vietnam

Christina Sanko

In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment

Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp et al. (eds.)

Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 213-226

"The chapter examines the complex relations of communication processes, generations and cultural memory in the socio-cultural setting of North Vietnam. It critically reviews present scholarly work in the flourishing, but scattered, field of memory research in communication and media studies, and dis ... more

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Community Media for Reconciliation: A Cypriot Case Study

Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 7, issue 4 (2014), pp. 415-434

"Community media studies have often neglected how community media can contribute in areas ridden with conflict to more peaceful ways of cohabitation. This article aims to look in detail at how the Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) has developed conflict resolution strategies to reduce the antagon ... more

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Waves of Media Democratization: A Brief History of Contemporary Participatory Practices in the Media Sphere

Nico Carpentier, Peter Dahlgren, Francesca Pasquali

Convergence, volume 19, issue 3 (2013), pp. 287-295

"The article aims to provide a more historically grounded approach to the relationship between communication and participation, by distinguishing different waves of media democratization. The article first discusses the concept of participation and some of its complexities, and then sketches a serie ... more

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Community Media for Peace-Building, Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation: A Roadmap to Develop a Bi-Community Radio Station in Cyprus

Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier

Cyprus University of Technology (2012), 23 pp.

Interrogating Audiences: Theoretical Horizons of Participation

Nico Carpentier, Peter Dahlgren (eds.)

CM: Èasopis za Upravljanje Komuniciranjem = Communication Management Quarterly, volume 6, issue 21 (2011), pp. 7-219

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Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

Nico Carpentier

Bristol: intellect (2011), 405 pp.

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The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy (eds.)

Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xiv, 579 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays f ... 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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Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World
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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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Understanding Alternative Media

Olga Guedes Bailey, Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2008), 196 pp.

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Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2008), 428 pp.

"This book includes 17 articles on the current state of communication for development from renowned communication practitioners and scholars. It covers five areas: an introduction to the relationship between development, participation and communication; the theoretical underpinnings of development c ... more

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