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SDG18 Communication for All, Vol 1: The Missing Link Between SDGs and Global Agendas
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxxvi, 299 pp.
"In 2015, the UN Member States adopted the 17 SDGs as a framework that would help address the challenges being faced by humanity. From eradicating poverty, ending hunger, providing universal access to healthcare and education, and addressing climate change; to the partnering of individuals, communit
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The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxxiv, 635 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN'S Sustainable Development Goals. Bringing together theoretical and applied contributions from scholars in E
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Learning from Communicators in Social Change: Rethinking the Power of Development
Singapore: Springer (2021), xxiii, 270 pp.
"This book presents the perspectives of some of the main players, both academics and professionals, in communication for sustainable development and social change so as to provide valuable lessons for future generations of change agents. It places emphasis on both the theoretical foundation and prac
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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Deep Insights
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
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Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa
"This chapter presents the findings from three radio dramas in Africa (Nigeria, Burundi, and Burkina Faso) developed using Population Media Center’s unique entertainment-education methodology. Each case study is presented in detail, including background on the country or region where the program w
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Evaluations and Impact Assessments in Communication for Development
"Within the development field, project evaluations and impact assessments are essential. Donors are increasingly requiring rigorous evaluations in order to (1) ensure that aid dollars are spent on projects that are having positive impacts and not being wasted on projects that are ineffective and (2)
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ICTs for Learning in the Field of Rural Communication
"This contribution surveys learning approaches in the field of agricultural extension, agricultural advisory services, and rural communication and explores their relationships with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It makes a distinction between theory-based approaches to learning a
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Community Radio in Ethiopia: A Discourse of Peace and Conflict Reporting
"In the states, like Ethiopia, where internal conflicts, mainly ethnic conflicts, have currently been appearing in many parts, a medium that deals with those issues appropriately is vital. Among the three main media branches, such as public service, commercial, and community radio, the later can be
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Fifty Years of Practice and Innovation Participatory Video (PV)
"Benefiting from more than 50 years of practice and innovation, participatory video (PV) is a firmly established approach in the field of communications for development. The term “participatory video” is used to refer to a very wide range of practices that involve nonprofessionals in making thei
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Online Activism in Politically Restricted Central Asia: A Comparative Review of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Singapore: Springer (2018), pp. 961-976
"This comparative study examined the Internet’s role and wider social media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, three Central Asian countries in the democratization process. Specifically, this work aims to discuss how the Internet and social media are allowing Internet users wider opportuni
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Digital Stories as Data
"This chapter describes how digital storytelling can be used as a method for data collection. The author’s dissertation study is used to demonstrate the practical application of this method." (Abstract)
Empowerment as Development: An Outline of an Analytical Concept for the Study of ICTs in the Global South
"It is a certainty that the proliferation of ICTs (mobile phones in particular) has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for individuals, aid agencies, and NGOs. However, overviews of communication supposedly for development reveal a field based on economic understandings of developmen
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Sinai People’s Perceptions of Self-Image Portrayed by the Egyptian Media: A Multidimensional Approach
"This chapter sought to analyze the portrayals of Sinai people in the Egyptian media as it pertains to the people themselves. It started by giving the reader an overview of the current Sinai’s social, security, and economic status quo and structures. Then, it examined how image building could be o
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Strategic Social Media Management for NGOs
"Social media channels provide intriguing opportunities for NGOs to communicate with their audiences, raise awareness, and campaign for change. Maintaining strong social media communication that supports the organization’s ability to achieve its goals is the mandate of social media management, the
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The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change
"Paulo Freire (1921–1997) was the father of critical pedagogy, popular education, and participatory action research (PAR), as well as a basic reference of liberation theology and of Latin American critical theory and a precursor of the epistemologies of the south. His main work, Pedagogy of the Op
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A Socio-Cognitive Approach to the Communication of SME Support: An Exploratory Qualitative Study in Turkmenistan
"Certain researchers call to reconsider Communication for development and social change as a problem of “Techniques and Society” (McArthur, Jouët, Bardini, Lohento, Kiyindou, Missé). Thus, the models of social integration of innovations are used here to study how the new development assistance
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Sustainable Development Goals in the Asian Context
Singapore: Springer (2017), xxiv, 174 pp.
"Chapters are extended works of papers presented at Communication/Culture and The Sustainable Development Goals (CCSDG): Challenges for a New Generation, an international conference held in Chiang Mai University in December 2015. The chapters address assessments of Millennium Development Goals in se
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Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxxix, 272 pp.
The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxiv, 269 pp.
" This volume contains chapters by an international array of scholars and provides case studies from various countries with critical empirical analysis of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics examined here include poverty in the media in Britain and Tur
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How ‘sustainable’ is development communication research?
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 7 (2016), pp. 701-710
"This article argues that a focus on sustainability will allow us to engage the complexity that communication research for development and social change routinely encounters. We start with a brief historical overview, move to the need for sustainability as an organizing principle, then to a consider
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