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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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Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Building Evidence, Informing Policy
Deep Insights
Rome: FAO; University of Queensland (2017), viii, 90 pp.
"This publication is the first scoping study aimed at compiling existing evaluation cases in the field of Communication for Development as applied to agricultural and rural development initiatives. It draws on a literature review and 19 cases across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribb
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"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that
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Popular Cultural Action, Catholic Transnationalism, and Development in Colombia before Vatican II
In: Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II
Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press (2016), pp. 245-274
"This chapter examines the history and development of Popular Cultural Action (Acción Cultural Popular, or ACPO), the multipronged project of Christian revitalization, local empowerment, and communitybased development whose radio education network, Radio Sutatenza, founded by a Colombian parish pri
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Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xiii, 219 pp.
"Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experien
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Digital Inclusion in Rural Areas: A Qualitative Exploration of Challenges Faced by People from Isolated Communities
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 21, issue 3 (2016), pp. 247-263
"This study explored the interplay between contextual and individual factors related to Internet adoption in isolated rural communities. By investigating 10 remote villages throughout Chile that received Internet access infrastructure in 2010-2011, we identified 3 areas in which contextual and indiv
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From Garamut to Mobile Phone: Communication Change in Rural Papua New Guinea
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 4, issue 2 (2016), pp. 270-287
"This article presents the attitudinal response of rural villagers in Papua New Guinea to mobile telephony, based on a threshold study made during the early stages of its adoption. The research indicates that the introduction of mobile telecommunications has generally been viewed positively, with mo
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Rural Communication Services for Family Farming: Contributions, Evidence and Perspectives
Rome: FAO (2016), x, 52 pp.
Audiencia radial nacional rural: 83% de la población rural escucha radio
Lima: CPI (2016), 3 pp.
"El 83,1% de las personas de 11 a más años a nivel nacional rural escuchan radio por lo menos una vez a la semana y lo hacen principalmente a través de emisoras locales de FM y AM, alcanzando estas emisoras al 69,6% de la población rural con 12 horas en promedio de escucha semanal, este mayor al
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Reappraising Indigenous African Communication Systems in the Twenty-First Century: New Uses for Ancient Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 203-216
"In Africa, rural people rarely have access to mainstream communication systems and their exposure to them is highly limited by several issues. However, they tend to attach much significance to their indigenous communication systems, indicating that the systems are still relevant today and are, ther
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Farmer Participation in Radio Campaigns for Technology Adoption: Lessons from AFFRI’s Hybrid Maize Campaign in Mangochi, Malawi
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2015), pp. 1-17
"This ethnographic study used focus group discussions to investigate and gather ideographical information about why statistics from the Nankumba region of Mangochi in Malawi, where, from 2008 to 2010, Farm Radio International implemented the African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) - a meticul
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Acción Cultural Popular, Responsible Procreation, and the Roots of Social Activism in Rural Colombia
Latin American Research Review (LARR), volume 49, issue Special Issue (2014), pp. 27-44
"This essay examines the Responsible Procreation campaign of Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) within the context of “zones of crisis” characterized not only by the legacy of long-standing violence but by tensions experienced within the Catholic Church and Colombian society at large during the tum
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Digital Youth Cultures in Small Town and Rural Gujarat, India
New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 6 (2014), pp. 983-1001
"Youth in this study treat new media and technologies as one limited component of otherwise rich lives and social experiences. While new technologies promote individualistic mobility, Indian youth of small towns and rural places still live in collective social structures that shape their orientation
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Communication for Rural Development Sourcebook
Key Guides
Rome: FAO (2014), xiii, 321 pp.
"This sourcebook is meant to equip development and communication professionals with a useful set of guidelines, reference materials and learning resources to apply communication in rural development initiatives. The main goal is to enable readers to design and implement rural communication strategie
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Communication for Rural Development: Guidelines for Planning and Project Formulation
Key Guides
Rome: FAO (2014), 55 pp.
"Communication for Development (ComDev) is a participatory approach that integrates community media, low-cost ICTs, mobile phones and other communication tools to facilitate access to information, knowledge sharing and social dialogue. Well-planned and managed ComDev activities are crucial to ensure
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ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness
New York: Springer (2013), viii, 46 pp.
"ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet. The book surveys the principles of ICT for development (ICTD), and closely examines how ICT has p
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