INCLUSION through Communication and Media:

We Are One But We Are Many: New Thinking on How Communication Can Support HIV Social Movements to Achieve Inclusive Social Change

...explores the theoretical foundations for a project on HIV and social movements by presenting recent research about social movements, public debate, and communication. The intent is to make the case for analysing social movements within communication and social change frameworks and to explore how the processes of communication motivate people to act...

Children's Radio Bridges: Radijojo

...an international non-profit initiative producing educational and entertaining radio and online content for and with children aged 3-13 on all 5 continents. Its core emphasis is on bringing kids from Europe together in joint radio-based projects with peers throughout that continent - as well as in more distant places like Africa and North America. The ultimate goal is to foster intercultural understanding...

Democracy, Development and the Media: How Media Matters to Democracy Depends on What We Mean by Democracy

...argues that sustainable development depends on media focused on the challenges facing people who are economically poor and powerless. Without debate, action, and leadership, democracies will exist only in name, not substance. Hence, development actors should take a more active interest in the role of media in the world's developing countries...

ALTERNATIVE Media/Communication:

Waves of Change

...a survey and online presentation of the variety of communication work being undertaken to effect social change around the world. A grassroots satellite network, Deep Dish TV, is producing a 12-part series that samples community media projects drawing on tools such as radio, television, theatre, murals, comics, and the internet as forms of resistance to homogenous commercial culture...

New Media, Technology and Activism

...explores new media including: comparing social and traditional media; mobile telephone activism; and a new web tool for youth groups using art to support HIV/AIDS activism...