Guest lecture, RUC, 10 June 2011: Participatory communication for development in practice

Prof. Víctor Manuel Marí Sáez (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain) will speak on Participatory communication for development in practice – The case of community media, Friday 10 June, 10:30–12:00, in room 40.2.25, CBIT, Roskilde University.

Abstract:

The field of communication for development has undergone a constant process of redefinition. Since the 1990s, the importance of participation in social and communicative processes in order to generate a truly transforming development has been stressed, and studies carried out during those years focused on participation as an important component to be considered.

The so-called community media (radio stations, television, telecentres) are undoubtedly privileged forces driving the participatory communication for development approach. Since their emergence in the late 1940s and up to the most recent studies of systematization of Jankowski (2002) and Lewis (2008), community media have been characterized by the centrality of citizenship participation in the creation of widespread messages, in their management, and in the processes of social change that they promote.

Download miniposter here (pdf). For directions on how to get to Roskilde University, see this page where you can also find a map of campus. Building 40 is in the L-shaped complex in the northwest (top left) corner of campus.

[Updated 17 June 2011 with link to presentation, see comment below.]