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Youth-led communication for social change: empowerment, citizen media, and cultures of governance in Northern Ghana (Development in Practice 28(3):400-413, April 2018)

April 14, 2019

This article critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of strategic communication initiatives to enhance cultures of governance among youth in Northern Ghana. The analysis is embedded within contemporary debates about communication and social change, with particular focus upon dynamics between citizen media development, youth-centred citizen journalism, and processes of community mobilisation and development. Findings suggest that the project has opened up to dynamic, youth-led social change processes, evidenced by the creative, proactive enactment of citizen engagement. Youth changed not only their self-perception around agency and ability to act, but also influenced community development in a variety of ways.

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Filed Under: Children, Community Media, Governance, Media Development, Research Papers, Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), Voice and Accountability Tagged With: Citizen journalism

Climate change advocacy in the Pacific: The role of information and communication technologies (Pacific Journalism Review 23 (1) 2017 133)

March 6, 2019

This article explores the phenomenon of the use of ICT for climate change activism in the Pacific. Climate change activism in the Pacific is characterised by the use of ICT tools such as social media. The article draws on semi-structured interviews and an analysis of social media sites to examine the use of social media in Pacific climate change campaigns. While other campaigns such as relating to West Papua have also been facilitated by social media, it has been generally NGO, citizen-led and varied in Pacific government support. In contrast, climate change campaigns in the Pacific are fully supported at the NGO, citizen, and state levels. Furthermore, while early Pacific ICT-based climate change campaigns used iconic images of Pacific Islanders leaving their homelands, more recent campaigns have leveraged social media to depict Pacific Islanders not as victims but as ‘warriors’. This new imagery aims to empower Pacific Islanders and engender a regional Pacific identity that shows strength and solidarity on the Pacific’s stance towards climate change.

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Filed Under: Advocacy, Climate and Environment, Climate and Environment Highlights, Fiji, Research Papers, Social Media Tagged With: Activism, Citizen journalism, MOOCs, Pacific

International Journalism Festival (Perugia, Italy)

April 11, 2018

The IJF is the biggest annual media event in Europe. All IJF sessions are free, without any need for registration and so far, there are 150 speakers running sessions ranging from citizen journalism to reporting on humanitarian crises. Sessions will also be live streamed.

For detailed updates of speakers and sessions visit the Festival website.

Tagged With: Citizen journalism, humanitarian, Media development

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