Tag Archives: development
Aspiration is a key capacity
Ellie Rennie (2006), in her book Community Media: A Global Introduction she argues that community media are tend to work when entirely run by the community according to their own systems and imperatives. However it is not so simple as we might think. Often Global South’s community media work under legal systems or regimes that might be […]
Internet Censorship and New Political Power of the People Using the Web
Shirky (2010) stresses how people can make use of Social Media for democratic action. What happens if such political freedom gained through the Web 2.0 is censored, has been shown in the case of instant messaging being taken down and later the entire mobile Internet being put down by the government for days in the […]
Soap operas are changing the world one episode at the time
Taru is a young educated woman who worked in Suhagpur village’s center, an organisation that provides health services, carries self-help activities and fights injustice by mobilising community action. She is idealistic, intelligent and polite. A Bihari from a higher caste, she befriended the likeable Shashikant who is also involved in social work, but […]
Participatory photography, to which extend is participatory?
I guess we all commonly have heard about a ‘photo voice’, ‘talking picture’ or visual voices’, a technique of participatory photography that puts the camera in the hands of the people that are encouraged to document and share their own reality through photos. Inspired by the Freirean technique of mutual dialogue (presented in my previous […]
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