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Strategic Plan 2020-2025
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2020), 12 pp.
"Communication for Change": Radio Sutatenza/Acción Cultural Popular, the Catholic Church, and Rural Development in Colombia during the Cold War
In: Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's long Cold War
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2020), pp. 114-136
"In 1947 Father José Joaquín Salcedo laid the cornerstone of what would become, until its demise nearly a half century later, Latin America’s largest, Catholic, mass media-based education and community development network, the Radiophonic Schools of Radio Sutatenza and Acción Cultural Popular (
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Rural women's radio listening behavior and program preferences in SNNPRS, the case of Sidama and Gedeo Zones
Journal of Media and Communication Studies, volume 12, issue 4 (2020), pp. 39-45
"The objective of the study was to identify rural women's radio program preferences and listening behaviours. Survey was used to gather information from 200 rural women selected through multistage sampling from Sidama and Gedeo Zones. Descriptive statistic such as frequency and percentage were used
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Building Smart Villages: A Blueprint. As Piloted in Niger
Geneva: ITU (2020), xiv, 57 pp.
"This Smart Village Blueprint, piloted in Niger, has been conceived as a practical tool for establishing smart villages. It contributes to the implementation of the Niger 2.0 Smart Villages project, which aims at providing broadband infrastructure to improve Internet access in rural and remote parts
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The Business of Chin Media: News Audiences Challenges Survival
Deep Insights
New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2019), 90 pp.
"This report analyses the Chin media sector. It is based on research conducted by MDIF from late 2018 through December 2019, as well as a quantitative and qualitative survey conducted by Myanmar Survey Research (MSR) in May 2019. The report provides data on the Chin media operations themselves, as w
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‘I didn’t read many books’: Chinese rural women’s reception of ‘born-digital’ social media and community engagement
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2019), pp. 343-365
"Currently, research on older Chinese rural women’s reading activities through social media is scarce. This paper, based on a 2015 ethnographic study in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha, responds to this disparity. It highlights some of the reading choices and sources shared by a group o
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Radio, Conflict and Land Grabbing in Sierra Leone: Communicating Rights and Preventing Violence Through Drama
Media, War & Conflict, volume 12, issue 4 (2019), pp. 373-391
"With a focus on entertainment education, this article sheds light on the effects of radio drama in addressing conflict over land governance. The discussion is built around the broadcast of Bush Wahala radio series during the recent land acquisition process that has taken place in Sierra Leone. Thro
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Acceso a internet y ruralidad: El caso de Macharetí en Bolivia
La Paz: Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS) (2019), 81 pp.
"Que se haya establecido en primer lugar el uso de la aplicación WhatsApp nos muestra la importancia de las redes en la comunicación personal, afectiva, familiar, en el trabajo, la economía y la organización de las personas. El Facebook denota la importancia e las redes abiertas, sin embargo, ta
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Wörterbuch Land- und Rohstoffkonflikte
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2019), 323 pp.
"Globale Transformationsprozesse wie steigende Rohstoff- und Nahrungsmittelpreise, die Finanzkrise und der Klimawandel haben seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Landnutzung und den Landbesitzverhältnissen beigetragen. Konflikte um Land und Rohstoffe stehen seit
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Das neue digitale Landleben: Smart und innovativ statt abgehängt und analog
Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau-Verlag (2019), 182 pp.
"Was hilft gegen die Landflucht? Digitale Strategien können ländliche Räume vitalisieren. Die Autorin begibt sich auf einen Landspaziergang durch zukünftige digitale Welten: Glasfaser, Offene Daten und Sensoren im Internet der Dinge tauchen ebenso auf wie smarte Mobilität, Roboter in der Gesund
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The Role of Community Radios in Information Dissemination to Rural Women in South Africa
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, volume 51, issue 1 (2019), pp. 47-58
"This article adopts the case study research approach through the use of document analysis and interviews to investigate the role of two community radio stations in selected areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa with regard to rural development and the dissemination of information to w
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Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w
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O “Programa do Galinho” na Rádio Educadora do Maranhão
Radiofonias: Revista de Estudos em Mídia Sonora, volume 12, issue 3 (2018), pp. 148-162
"A intenção deste artigo é refletir sobre a resistência das práticas comunitárias, com forte presença da oralidade primária e secundária (ONG, 1998; ZUMTHOR, 1993), no âmbito das relações entre pessoas dos meios rural e urbano em contato com a radiodifusão. O corpus é o “Programa do
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Community Radio in Rural Development in Northeastern Ghana: Experiences of Radio Gaakii in the Saboba District
International Research Journal of Social Sciences, volume 7, issue 5 (2018), pp. 1-12
"This research paper draws on the theory of development communication to explore the relationship between community radio broadcast and community development in Northern Ghana. It traces the history of development communication practice in Ghana and its application in Ghana's rural development effor
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Sistematización: Prácticas Educomunicativas. Programa de Educación Rural (PER)
Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte (2018), 70 pp.
A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.
"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the
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Makutano Junction: A Village Soap Opera for Kenyan TV. An Interview with Producer and Mediae.org Director and Co-Founder David Campbell
Architecture and Culture, volume 5, issue 1 (2017), pp. 99-113
"Makutano Junction is an ‘edutainment’ soap opera made for local TV stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live in it. The program is made in Kenya, but was devised and is produced by Mediae, a UK based company that
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Community Radio for Change
Bhubaneswar (IN): ActionAid; Young India (2017), 85 pp.
"ActionAid’s efforts of bring together communities radio stations from different states across the country in the recent National Consultation on Community Radio held at Bhubaneswar was quite useful to discuss the best practices of community radio stations, the challenges they face and the way for
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Stylistic Features of Rural Print Media in Ghana
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 195-213
"Rural print media journalists in Africa tap into perceptions about their readers to produce newspapers. The evolving aesthetic perceptions of the rural print media in Ghana have in turn produced social domains of consumption and affiliation with the newspapers and print media. The style of Ewe-lang
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