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[ecrea] Free Access to Citizens? Media journal issue

Wed Dec 16 20:38:29 GMT 2009



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Development in Practice is enabling free full-text access and reduced price print copies of the recent special issue on Citizens' Media to support and highlight Conversations with the Earth, an indigenous-led
multimedia campaign exhibiting in Copenhagen at COP15.

For more details and to watch the indigenous participatory videos visit http://www.developmentinpractice.org/conversationsearth

Free access to the publication is available at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g913327026

Conversations with the Earth (CWE) is an indigenous-led multimedia campaign to amplify indigenous voices on Climate Change. A collaboration between indigenous communities, journalists, photographers, designers, and participatory video facilitators. CWE is initially present as an exhibition in Copenhagen, supporting live presentations by representatives of several indigenous communities as delegates gather for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties meeting (COP15).

The Citizens' Media special issue, Volume 19 (4&5) is guest edited by Jethro Pettit, Juan Francisco Salazar, and Alfonso Gumucio Dagron.

Citizens? media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice ­ and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Introducing the articles in this guest issue, the authors find that citizens? media is about more than bringing diverse voices into pluralist politics: it contributes to processes of social and cultural construction, redefining norms and power relations that exclude people. Local ownership and control of their own media can allow people to reshape the spaces in which their voices find expression.

Table of contents

Development in Practice, Volume 19 Issue 4 & 5 2009

Special issue: Citizen's Media and communication
Now 8 issues per year

Augusto Boal (1931-2009)
We dedicate this special issue to the memory of Augusto Boal, the Brazilian director and playwright whose 'Theatre of the Oppressed' inspired countless activists worldwide to bring theatre, art, media, and communication into their work for social change. Boal created a critical and mobilising kind of theatre for 'humanising humanity', where actors mix with people in the streets and on public transport, and spectators become 'spect-actors'. His work spread to many countries and evolved into methods like Forum Theatre, Legislative Theatre, Journalists' Theatre, Theatre of the Factory, Theatre of the Office, and many others. Augusto Boal affirmed that 'the theatre is all of us' - and that through it we can reveal the power that shapes our lives, transforms the silences, and overcomes oppression. May his work live on and continue to inspire.

GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Citizens' media and communication
Jethro Pettit;  Juan Francisco Salazar; Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Pages 443 ­ 452

ARTICLES: SECTION I: UNDERSTANDINGS OF MEDIA, THE STATE, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Playing with fire: power, participation, and communication for development
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Pages 453 ­ 465

Negotiating power: community media, democracy, and the public sphere
Saima Saeed
Pages 466 ­ 478

'Neither silent nor invisible?: anti-poverty communication in the San Francisco Bay Area
Dorothy Kidd; Bernadette Barker-Plummer
Pages 479 ­ 490

From mouthpiece to public service: donor support to radio broadcasters in new democracies
Simon Milligan; Graham Mytton
Pages 491 ­ 503

ARTICLES: SECTION II: EXPERIENCES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' MEDIA
Self-determination in practice: the critical making of indigenous media
Juan Francisco Salazar
Pages 504 ­ 513

Electronic dreaming tracks: Indigenous community broadcasting in Australia
Michael Meadows
Pages 514 ­ 524

Radio, control, and indigenous peoples: the failure of state-invented citizens' media in Mexico
Antoni Castells-Talens;  José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez; Marisol Chan Concha
Pages 525 ­ 537

ARTICLES: SECTION III: MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION AS METHODS OF TRANSFORMATION
Transforming images: reimagining women's work through participatory video
Usha Sundar Harris
Pages 538 ­ 549

Theatre for transformation and empowerment: a case study of Jana Sanskriti Theatre of the Oppressed
Sandra Mills
Pages 550 ­ 559

Sexual-health communication across and within cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala
Anthony Savdié; Andrew Chetley
Pages 560 ­ 572

ARTICLES: SECTION IV: MEDIA AND VOICE IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
Participatory content creation: voice, communication, and development
Jo Tacchi;  Jerry Watkins; Kosala Keerthirathne
Pages 573 ­ 584

Mobile phones and community development: a contact zone between media and citizenship
Gerard Goggin; Jacqueline Clark
Pages 585 ­ 597

ARTICLES: SECTION V: COMMUNITY RADIO AND CITIZEN VOICE
Four steps to community media as a development tool
Stefania Milan
Pages 598 ­ 609

Rebel voices and radio actors: in pursuit of dialogue and debate in northern Uganda
Maggie Ibrahim
Pages 610 ­ 620

Transforming public space: a local radio's work in a poor urban community
Dora Navarro
Pages 621 ­ 629

ARTICLES: SECTION VI: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Moved to act: communication supporting HIV social movements to achieve inclusive social change
Robin Vincent; Lucy Stackpool-Moore
Pages 630 ­ 642

The state of the art in citizens? communication for social change in Spain
Alejandro Barranquero
Pages 643 ­ 653

Citizens' publications that empower: social change for the homeless
Claudia Magallanes-Blanco; Juan Antonio Pérez-Bermúdez
Pages 654 ­ 664

ARTICLES: SECTION VII: PARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION IN RESEARCH
Creating knowledge for action: the case for participatory communication in research
Laura Cornish; Alison Dunn
Pages 665 ­ 677

Giving voice: instigating debate on issues of citizenship, participation, and accountability
Samuel Ayedime Kafewo
Pages 678 ­ 687


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