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Community Radio for Social Change: Restoring Decentralized Democratic Discursive Spaces
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 190-212
"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the
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Advocacy Communication for Social Justice
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 172-189
"We offer a comprehensive analysis of media advocacy, pointing out its challenges and limitations and build towards an argument for proposing a holistic conception of ‘advocacy communication’ for achieving social justice. Media advocacy faces several challenges in practice, as it is often inhibi
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Building Capacity in Communication for Development and Health Promotion
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 262-284
"Strengthening capacities in communication for development (C4D) and health communication is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and other global health and development goals. This chapter presents case studies of recent initiatives undertaken by the United Nations Children´s Fu
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Counter-Terrorism, Social Media and the Regulation of Extremist Content
"As highlighted above, the development and refinement of counter-terrorism policies and practices by social media and technology companies has come about as a function of the evolving nature of terrorist and extremist entities’ exploitation of said platforms. The challenges highlighted above, name
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Putting People First: Participatory Development Communication and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 233-244
"Most effective agriculture, environment and natural resource management projects tend to be those in which community members, development practitioners or agriculture experts jointly identify research or development parameters and participate in the decision-making process. In these projects, commu
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Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology
Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), 464 pp.
"Featuring international migration in all facets from the migration of tech sector specialists through to refugee displacement, leading contributors offer strategic insights into the future of migration and mobility. Covering diverse geographies and using interdisciplinary approaches, contributions
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Communication and Development: Participatory Action Research and Praxis for Social Justice
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 83-99
"Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a subset of action research; it is critical research guided by an emancipatory interest. Critical PAR is committed to social transformation for justice. It is a heuristic approach, which incorporates a praxis that involves social and political action. PAR is c
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Corruption and the Media
"The chapter offers an overview of the relationship between media and corruption. In a critical review of literature on the role of journalism in curbing corruption, different models and mechanisms are outlined. By presenting numerous studies, it is argued that press freedom helps to reduce corrupti
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Transnational Culture in the Internet Age
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2012), vii, 430 pp.
Media, Development and Institutional Change
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2009), x, 173 pp.
"Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development." (Pu
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The Media and Political Change in Southeast Asia: Karaoke Culture and the Evolution of Personality Politics
Cheltenham; Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing (2008), vii, 368 pp.
"Examining the communications media and its relationship to political change in Southeast Asia, this study endeavours to provide both a regional comparative analysis and an interpretation of the mass communication media in the wake of 9/11." (Publisher description)
Information Technology Policy and the Digital Divide: Lessons for Developing Countries
Cheltenham; Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing (2004), x, 323 pp.
"The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages and disadvantages of the IT revolution through detailed studies
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