| CFSC Consortium Body of Knowledge |
Are you looking for articles, books, essays, journals or reports on communication for development and social change? Is your interest HIV/AIDS, human rights or rural development? No matter what your issue, as long as it deals with communication for social change, you should be able to find useful references in the Body of Knowledge, the CFSC Consortium’s searchable database.
The body of knowledge has more than 3,000 references from around the world now registered. We invite you to consult the database for your use. And we encourage you to submit any reference you consider relevant to helping our database continue to grow. |
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| Inviting Artistic Images, Songs, Poetry Showing CFSC In Action |
Mazi invites your original images showing communication for social change in action. Whatever your medium—photography, painting, sketches, mosaics, murals, songs or dances—if you have an image showing people working together to give everyone a voice—we will consider publishing it in our online magazine. Unfortunately, we are unable to return your submission. We also reserve the right to crop and/or edit your work for style and content. Each creator will be credited online for his or her submission.
Please e-mail your contribution to mazi@communicationforsocialchange.org |
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| Inviting Guest Contributors |
Do you know of interesting examples of successful applications of communication for social change principles within your community or country?
Mazi is looking for good case stories of CFSC at work: illustrations of the process of dialogue leading to community decision-making, action, implementation, monitoring, assessment and evaluation. We’re especially interested in examples of how communication processes have been strengthened or established at a community level by people who have been traditionally marginalised.
Help all of us build a better understanding of the many and varied ways that public dialogue leads to community decision-making and action. Describe for us where it takes place and why. Explain how CFSC is working. Inspire us all by telling us your community’s story.
Please e-mail your contribution of at least 250 words to mazi@communicationforsocialchange.org
Please make sure your story includes the CFSC elements: catalyst or catalytic event, problem identification, dialogue, decision-making, community action, monitoring and evaluation, and assessment of change at the individual and societal levels. Include your name, phone number, fax (if available) and email address.
The facts of all submissions will be verified. Once verified, they may be included either in Mazi or on the Consortium’s website. |
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Dreams Deferred?
Message from Denise Gray-Felder |
| I think a lot about children this time of year, and not just my own kids. In both of my countries (the one of my birth and the one I've adopted), it is nearing the time of year when students graduate from secondary schools and universities. My personal diary is filled with dates for parties, commencement ceremonies and "notes to self" to purchase cards and gifts. |
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Letter from Sydney, Australia: OURMedia 6 Moves Toward a Just and Better World
by Participants of OURMedia’s Most Recent Conference |
| Working towards “a more integrated, just and better world,” participants of OURMedia’s sixth conference declared their global network to be “one vital part of a systemic and inclusive approach to social change and the right for all to communicate.” The complete declaration from OURMedia 6 conference participants is posted here. |
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Photo Essay: How TV Helps Give Voice to Palestinian Youth
by Birgitte Jallov |
| Giving a voice to Palestinian youth, especially young women, is critical to peace in the Middle East. Communication for social change is a process of public and private dialogue through which people define who they are, what they need and how to get what they need to improve their lives. In this photo essay, Birgitte Jallov tells how three organisations in Palestine foster peace and democracy through communication for social change. |
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Transforming Traditional Gender Structures: Giving Women Access to Information Technology
by Ami Sengupta, Esther Long, Arvind Singhal and Corrine L. Shefner-Rogers |
| Combining the use of suitable technology with information dissemination can be a useful way of prompting dialogue about pressing social issues. Authors Ami Sengupta, Esther Long, Arvind Singhal and Corinne L. Shefner-Rogers describe a project focused on giving Afghan women access to solar-powered digital audio players in order to access information about civic and voter education. As a result, the audio players—called Sada—helped promote open and inclusive family and community dialogue about gender issues. |
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Journalists Look at Development Communication
by G. Pascal Zachary |
| What are the strengths and weaknesses of the global media’s coverage of development? Journalists cover development policy debates, highlight research results and hold governments accountable. And sometimes they miss—or they misinterpret—critical issues and trends. G. Pascal Zachary, a journalist with more than 10 years experience covering development, offers recommendations for improving how the media cover development—and six other journalists from around the world weigh in on the subject in a newly released publication from the International Food Policy Research Institute. |
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Celebrating 20 Years of Growth: Communication and Development Studies at Ohio University
by Laura Newman |
| Development communication practitioners and academics from several countries participated in the recent graduate student conference of the Ohio University communication and development studies programme. With its theme, "Building Skills and Sparking Dialogue for Social Change," the conference, as O.U. graduate student Laura Newman shows, was aligned with the principles of communication for social change. |
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| Message to Universities of the South |
The Consortium recently received a grant to distribute, free of charge, 200 copies of the Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings to universities in developing countries.
We ask our readers to nominate appropriate universities to receive a free copy of this groundbreaking work, which brings together a broad variety of views and features more than 150 key thinkers throughout the world. The anthology’s retail price is USD 120 per copy or 75 USD for purchases of three or more copies.
Appropriate universities will have departments or programmes that focus on communication for development, international affairs, communication for social change or social communication—or that offer courses in any of these subjects. The donated anthology will be sent to the university library or communication department for use by all students and faculty.
If you’d like to apply for a donated copy of the CFSC Anthology, please contact us at info@communicationforsocialchange.org no later than June 30, 2007. Include the following information in your email:
• Name of university;
• Name of department;
• Name of dean or department chair;
• Mailing address;
• Telephone and fax numbers;
• Name of person to contact; and
• E-mail address for person to contact.
We will contact the university contact before sending the book and will publish a list of all schools receiving the free copies.
Thank you for your assistance as we ensure that students and faculty in developing countries have access to this important resource. |
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Three Challenges of Communication for Social Change
by Alfonso Gumucio Dagron |
| What are the most critical challenges facing communication for social change? In his closing remarks at OURMedia's sixth conference, Alfonso Gumucio cites three challenges: using appropriate words to describe CFSC, developing the CFSC discipline and legitimising CFSC among the agencies making development decisions affecting our entire world. |
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Memories and Perspectives of the OURMedia Network
by Alfonso Gumucio Dagron |
| All people have the right to communicate their needs, to network and engage in dialogue with others, and to access information, technologies and know-how necessary to exercise these rights. These are the principles of a global network of nearly 500 activists, scholars and practitioners known as OURMedia. In April 2007, OURMedia held its sixth conference in Sidney, Australia, titled "Sustainable Futures: Roles & Challenges for Community, Alternative and Citizens' Media in the 21st Century." Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, the Consortium's managing director-programmes, delivered the opening remarks. His remarks follow. |
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| DVD on Colombia’s Magdalena Region Radio Available Now |
If you’re looking for a cost-effective and powerful teaching or training tool to introduce the power of community radio, you’ll benefit from "Voices from the Magdalena: Communication for Peace," a 35-minute video documentary on the community radio network in Colombia’ Magdalena region. The region is at the centre of confrontation between guerrilla and paramilitary forces. Decades of conflict have caused enormous economic, political and social damage to the people living there.
This DVD, available in both Spanish or with English subtitles, demonstrates how community radio can give voice to people living in poverty or in marginalised communities.
Click here now to order your copy
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| CFSC Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings |
On Sale Now. $120 per copy for this two-volume reference bound into one book. Special price: $75 per copy for orders of three or more. Order today online. Shipped within 24 hours.
The Communication for Social Change Anthology:
Historical and Contemporary Readings
This groundbreaking book brings together a broad variety of views and features more than 150 key thinkers throughout the world. Edited by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron and Thomas Tufte, the anthology reviews the evolution of communication for social change thinking from the early 20th century to the present. With more than 1,000 pages, this reference work is essential for communication and development experts as well as for anyone conducting business globally.
Click here now to order your copy. |
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| Donating Made Quick and Easy Online |
| If you would like to donate to the CFSC Consortium, it is now easier than ever. Simply visit our Web site. We now accept MasterCard, Visa, Amex, and Discover. |
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