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Participatory Edutainment in Practice: A Case Study of Wan Smolbag, Vanuatu
Malmö: Malmö University (2020), 68 pp.
Good Communication Practices in Community Engagement: Accountability at the Heart of Humanitarian Response in DRC
Dakar: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020), 34 pp.
"Community engagement is an approach to the humanitarian response of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It places people affected by natural disasters, violence, and armed conflict at the heart of decision-making, strategy development and orientation of activities to protect and
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De-Constructing Participatory Communication and Civil Society Development in 2020: A Perspective Inspired by Paulo Freire
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 participatory communication and civil society development. In exploring the legacy of Freire, his work is approache
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Participatory Communication Approach for Rural Development: Evidence from Two Grassroots Community Radio Stations in Rural India
Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development, volume 29, issue 1 (2019), pp. 98-110
"The traditional approach of communication for rural development (RD) was greatly influenced by the dominant paradigm of development. The retort against this paradigm gave birth to the participatory approach of communication wherein the common people in rural areas were considered as the ‘subjects
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Photography as Dialogue
Photography & Culture, volume 12, issue 3 (2019), pp. 299-305
"About 10 years ago we started sending each other images, back and forth, via email. Each photograph had to respond to the one just received. We have so far exchanged over 260 photographs, sharing snippets of family life, abstraction, travels, loss and humor. When we started, we had no particular pl
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Small Group Discussion to Promote Reflection and Social Change: A Case Study of a Half the Sky Intervention in India
Community Development Journal, volume 54, issue 4 (2019), pp. 695-712
"An important sub-discipline within the field of Communication and Social Change addresses how meaningful participation can be practically implemented. This article presents the case of an intervention developed by the NGO ‘Half the Sky Movement’ and reflects upon how participation took shape wi
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‘Meaningful Participation’: Exploring the Value of Limited Participation for Community Radio Listeners
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 253-270
"Community radio represents an opportunity for audiences to play a lead role in the production, dissemination and ownership of media channels and content. The active participation of audiences is one of the primary differences between community radio stations and their commercial and state-run count
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YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture
Cambridge, UK; Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2nd ed. (2018), xii, 191 pp.
"Since launching as a website for everyday video-sharing in 2005, YouTube has become one of the world’s most powerful digital media platforms. Originally published in 2009 when YouTube was only four years old, this book was the first to systematically investigate its cultural impacts and politics,
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These Photos Were my Life: Understanding the Impact of Participatory Photography Projects
Community Development Journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2018), pp. 618-636
"This article presents research on Los Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS), a pioneering Peruvian community photography project, that demonstrates the enduring long-term impact that community-led participatory photography projects can have on the critical consciousness of participants. Participato
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Current and Future Studies on Participatory Communication in Thailand
Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences, volume 38 (2017), pp. 68-73
"This study used qualitative research involving a documentary analysis of the existing research in Thailand. In all, 60 research studies between 1993 and 2012 [...] were reviewed and analyzed for participatory communication usage and media types. These studies were classified by the purpose of parti
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Community Radio, Democratic Participation and the Public Sphere
Irish Journal of Sociology, volume 25, issue 1 (2017), pp. 29-47
"In this article, which draws on a detailed study of four community radio stations, we have highlighted a number of elements of community radio which contribute towards a democratisation of the public sphere as envisaged by Habermas and his followers. However, we have argued that democratic particip
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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
"This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and
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These Photos Were My Life: Understanding the Impact of Participatory Photography Projects
Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2017), pp. 618-636
"This article analyses the impact of participatory photography as a tool for community development. In recent decades, participatory arts and media initiatives are increasingly agency - rather than community-led, their value assessed using linear evaluative models and framed in terms of short-term,
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Análisis y relatos de experiencias de comunicación participativa en radios comunitarias en India
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 54-77
"Desde una perspectiva crítica de la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social y tomando como referencia una nueva mirada a la Comunicología de la Liberación definida por Luis Ramiro Beltrán (1981), esta presentación analiza experiencias y modelos de comunicación horizontal de radios
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Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
Deep Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 308 pp.
"This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of t
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Citoyenneté numérique: Ce que l’Afrique prépare. Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, République démocratique du Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Sénégal
Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2016), 39 pp.
"L’approfondissement des pratiques démocratiques dans les pays étudiés passe non seulement par le renforcement des capacités des médias et des journalistes, pour qu’ils puissent s’emparer pleinement des outils numériques, mais aussi par la montée en puissance d’un grand nombre de nouv
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Citizen Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Communication for Development Approach to Rebuilding Peace from the Bottom-Up
Progress in Development Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-13
"By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communica-tion and civic engagement with the reality of postconflict peace, this article demonstrates how a communication for development (C4D) approach to engaging citizens in peacebuilding contributes to strengthening the reco
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PhotoVoice: Facilitator’s Guide
Rutgers (2016), 132 pp.
"PhotoVoice: A creative and effective tool for purposes such as monitoring, participatory research, data collection and capacity building. This guide has been developed to help you prepare, organise and facilitate a PhotoVoice training course in low, middle and high-income countries." (Back cover)
The Political Economy of Sponsored Call-In Radio in Zambia
Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 19 pp.
"This working paper provides a context for the assessment of hopes that there might be a transformation in political accountability in Africa as a result of previously powerless and voiceless populations having their agendas strengthened via interactive media. It describes the ways in which many rad
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Lokale Partizipation und Bürgermedien: Laienpublizistik und Öffentlichkeit im ländlichen Raum
Konstanz; München: UVK (2016), 246 pp.
"Welche publizistischen Angebote können gemacht werden, damit das Interesse der Bürger am eigenen Umfeld (wieder) zunimmt? Wie kann die lokale, demokratische Öffentlichkeit gestärkt werden? Diese Fragen werden im vorliegenden Buch untersucht. Im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms „Zusammenhalt durch T
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