Latest titles from the CfDSC series
Understanding Micronesia:
A Cultural Guide for Researchers and Visitors
"Tom Hogan's Understanding Micronesia is a welcome addition to the growing body of works on communication in the Pacific. Based on many years of productive fieldwork, this book is theoretically sophisticated and rich in insights.
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The author has lucidly and cogently laid bare some of the very significant issues that impede cross-cultural understanding in this region. I strongly recommend this book to all those interested in culture and communication in Micronesia and beyond."
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Moving Targets: Mapping the Paths between Communication, Technology and Social Change
in Communities
Communicators are shifting their focus of attention towards local communities and with the model of communication becoming multidimensional. This shift confronts both scholars and practitioners with a series of questions: |
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How do we empower the ‘voiceless’ to control both the process and the content of communication? |
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How do we inform, initiate and encourage the grassroots to identify problems and to come up with solutions? |
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How do we deal with people’s identity issues as they experience social and behavioural change? |
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These questions raise timely and serious issues related to communication for development and social change. This book attempts to address those issues, particularly at the community level, by investigating why some community initiatives succeed while others fail. Lessons learned from the past and present will help scholars and practitioners to better position themselves and better utilize their resources to bring about desired outcomes in the future.
This book, comprising 13 chapters contributed by both academics and practitioners specializing in the field of communication for development and social change in communities, has just been published to launch the CfDSC series. Prof. Jan Servaes is the Series Editor.
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Visualisation in Participatory Programmes: How to Facilitate and Visualise Participatory Group Processes
This manual has been written for the trained facilitator of group events. It is designed to reinforce concepts and techniques learned in training of facilitators and trainers in participatory group processes. VIPP is not wedded to a particular framework or academic discipline in problem solving, planning or training. Rather it is a set of tools that can be applied to just about any group process as long as the intention is to make such processes more participatory
and democratic.
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Planning and revising projects and programmes |
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Communication materials development and story-line planning |
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Putting research into action |
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Community-level development work, including PRA/PLA |
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Training workshops |
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Training of facilitators and trainers |
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Curricula development |
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Running conferences and information markets |
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Management, human-resource planning and team building |
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Business meetings |
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Involving The Community
This guide is intended for people working in research and development. It introduces participatory usses the use of effective two-way communication approaches, and presents a methodology to plan, develop and evaluate communication strategies . . .
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Alternative Media: Idealism and Pragmatism
Clearly it is easier to suppress the public sphere under a totalitarian regime than a democratic one. Indeed the notion of suppressing the public sphere in a democracy seems a contradiction in terms. Critical theorists take the view that the mainstream media in liberal democratic countries, which are meant to provide the space for a public sphere, are controlled by elite corporate interests that are allied with the establishment. Elite-owned mainstream media today incorporate new ICTs with their participatory potential. Alternative media is meant to be an alternative to mainstream media. From this point of view a small environmental broadsheet is an alternative medium even if it uses traditional newspaper publication technology...
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Studies In Terrorism
This book is the result of a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of International Communication sent out after the attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. It comprises ten papers examining the enigma of terror . . .
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Internet And Society In Latin
America And The Caribbean
The research contained in this book is designed to foster discussion about the policies and actions that must be promoted for building an Internet culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on the principles of social and cultural equity . . .
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Information Society Or Knowledge Societies?
Unesco In The Smart State
The chapters in this volume canvasses the dialogue emerging from discussions about the WSIS Statement of Principles and Plan of Action in the context of local, national and international communication policies. It also offers some insights to WSIS participants, which may be helpful when it comes to evaluating the process in Tunis and beyond. The various authors discuss the WSIS Statement of Principles and Plan of Action from multiple perspectives, offering insights into the key challenges facing the process and offering alternative frameworks for the management of communication rights. . .
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Who Owns The Media?
This collection of critical writings on media ownership from different parts of the world by leading scholars offers a richly textured, contextual reading of the political economy of contemporary media ownership. Issues addressed include convergence, global media governance, intellectual property, telecommunications regulation and deregulation, censorship, the role of the state, with a strong accent on the need for transparency, accountability and media diversity . . .
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Research for Development in the Dry Arab Region: The Cactus Flower
Can dryland communities cope with the global changes sweeping the world today? Is their predicament limited to their difficulty of building livelihoods on precarious natural resources? Can development research and external interventions offer any sustainable and fruitful partnerships to this end? This book relates the story of a relationship between a poor rural community in arid Lebanon and a development research project and their common journey to embrace sustainable resource use...
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