Leicester calling: Grants offered by IAMCR

26 travel grants, the Herbert Schiller Award, the Urban Communication Research Grant, and a Climate Change Communication Research award are offered owing to IAMCR conference in Leicester in July 2016.

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Ørecomm Meets C4D Network East Africa Hub

An exciting collaboration between Ørecomm and C4D Network results in a  co-hosted event in Nairobi on Communication for Development and Glocal Change. Are you joining?

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Analysing Media Ethnography: Nordic-Kenyan PhD seminar

How to navigate easily in tons of material collected during ethnographic research? Join our PhD seminar in Kenya and learn from Kenyan and Scandinavian experts working in the field of media and communication studies.

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A Christmas letter to the ComDev community

At this very moment you must be wrapping up Christmas presents and making wish lists for 2016.  Meanwhile, we at Ørecomm are wrapping up our research findings and setting aims for projects in the upcoming year. Here is what Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte, directors of Ørecomm, have to say.

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Mobile media use in Kenya: Young men aspiring for a better life

Thomas Tufte, co-director of Ørecomm, shares his findings from research in Kenya, where he studied how smartphones and new media change lives of young Kenyans.

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Action for Social Change: Balances and Tensions of Power in ComDev Practice

What makes Communication for Development (ComDev) strategies come into NGO initiatives, how does it work and evolve? What are the limits and potentials of ComDev within an international organizational setup? This week Ørecomm researcher Jonas Jeppesen presents findings from his ethnographic research.

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Undermining Digital Dissent

This Thursday, 8 October 2015, Ørecomm is hosting Emiliano Treré from the Autonomous University of Querétaro (Mexico) with a seminar titled Undermining digital dissent: the perils of social media for social change.

Changing Global Development Agenda? Registration is open

9 weeks to go before the 3rd Joint Nordic Conference on Development Research Nordev15, hosted by the School of Global Studies (SGS), takes place in in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Towards a Water Wise World

In the frame of discussion on post-2015 and Sustainable Development Goals, the topic of water stays critical. The 25^th World Water Week taking place  in a month in Stockholm will cover issues of water management, sanitation, climate change and more.

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Thomas Tufte: Crisis as a “laboratory” for ComDev study

Communication for Social Change. Participation and Empowerment as the basis for World Development, a book written by co-director of  Ørecomm Thomas Tufte, is released. What is it about and what can we learn from it about the current state of ComDev?

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