The University of East Anglia are running a free online course “Why Does Media Matter for Development”.

To watch a trailer for the course and to register for the course please follow the links below:

Trailer:

This paper provides an overview of the communication practices that UN agencies working on the migration response in Italy have adopted in their work with newly arrived unaccompanied migrant children. These include IOM, UNICEF and UNHCR. The aim is to present the different objectives and methodologies of each agency’s intervention under an overall framework. This is built both around the agencies’ respective areas of technical expertise and their commitment towards the principles expounded in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which are applied here in the context of refugee and migrant foreign minors. Recommendations on how to strengthen these practices are offered.

Please find the entire report by clicking on the link below:

https://respondmigration.com/wp-blog/communicating-with-unaccompanied-foreign-minors-un-agencies-italy

New online course is changing the way activists communicate

Newly launched, the free online Communications for Advocacy course will equip those working towards social change with the know-how and skills they need to persuade, influence and mobilise their target audiences. Based on real-life examples from the world of advocacy, it promises to change the way advocates and activists think about communications.

Read the full article: aidsfonds.org/news/new-online-course-is-changing-the-way-activists-communicate

Or access the course directly: course.sogicampaigns.org/comms4advocacy/

The Institute for Media and Creative Industries has organised a Speaker Series to bring together researchers from across a wide range of interdisciplinary fields in order to address timely and pertinent questions in media and the creative industries. This workshop is titled ‘Communication for Change: Life stories, Dis/Connections and the Postcolonial’.

The late media scholar Roger Silverstone argued in his last book from 2006 (strongly inspired by the philosopher Hannah Arendt) that it is plurality that constitutes the public and by recognizing a shared space, despite conflicts, where visible and audible actors can take place and word, we may form an effective engagement with the world. Three key issues expressed in the title of this event, can be highlighted: New voices and life stories keep challenging, expanding or/and dividing publics and collectives. Identities affected by movement and oppression try to make sense of experience, in the era of the postcolonial. Media materializes and over-writes these histories in new connections and disconnections.

This second edition of the Communication for Change miniFest investigates production of, but notably also challenges to, ‘echo chambers’ and polarization through various media and inventions in art, journalism, and community work.

For more information on the event, please click here.

This article is the interesting review of David Souter who was born in the UK in and worked in the comms and ICT field all his life. He draws conclusions considering the changes in the field that took place during his lifetime and discusses future projects.

Read the enriching insights here.