By Conor Ashleigh When it comes to visual communication there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. In this blog I will explore how in contemporary photojournalism and documentary filmmaking there is still a significant amount of imagery that reinforces traditional power relationships and exotifies those…
Social media is a key emerging space where communication for development is reaching large and new audiences. Trying to define social media is no easy task and naturally it’s heavily contested. Christian Fuches (2014) offers a rather concise description “sharing, collaboration, and opportunities for users to both create their own…
Football nowadays seems to have taken a debatable and obscure path. On one hand, football teams have grown in power and recognition while (some) footballers have reached unprecedented heights of fame as they identified and compared to gods, while they are also paid as such. On the other hand,…
Here are some key posts from our Twitter feed the past couple days, or else, meanwhile on twitter: A book reader or an innovator?? Most probably, the former! To some this is just another picture; it means nothing – to others it’s a story of passion, purpose &…
Negasi shares her journey into C4D and how the impact of digital communication can make a difference
Alice Keen tells us about how she got into the field of Communications for Development. One book changed the course of her career…
A view over the Himalayas in Nepal.I characterise my journey into Communication for Development like a river rushing out of the Himalayas, it’s non-linear, can be intense and reflective at different moments and overall truly transformative. My early career began as a community development worker, primarily with homeless youth and…
From the very start of my academic studies, I felt that something was quite ‘wrong’. If being honest, I, probably, felt that something I was doing was way out of what I really was, ideologically speaking at least. Although I realized the paradox from the very beginning, I kept doing…
When you hear the term “communication for development”, what comes first to your mind? A group of local villagers sitting in the circle somewhere in Africa listening to the Western-looking aid worker? Or you start thinking of one of the large-scale PR campaigns UN is doing worldwide? Both are right,…