Methodological reflections on researching communication and social change

✍ Scribed by Ngomba, Teke; Wildermuth, Norbert

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Series: Palgrave studies in communication for social change
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides grounded insights on these issues from a broad range of proficient academics and experienced practitioners. Overall, the different contributions address four key themes: a critical evaluation of different ethnographic approaches in researching communication for/and social change; a critical appraisal of visual methodologies and theatre for development research; a methodological appraisal of different participatory approaches to researching social change; and a critical examination of underlying assumptions of knowledge production within the dominant strands of methodological approaches to researching social change. In addressing these issues through a critical reflection of the methodological decisions and implications of their research projects, the contributors in this book offer perspectives that are highly relevant for students, researchers and practitioners within the broad field of communication for/and social change. . Read more...

Abstract:

This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction (Norbert Wildermuth, Teke Ngomba)....Pages 1-8
Involving Communities as Skilled Learners: The STRAP Framework (Chiara Milan, Stefania Milan)....Pages 9-28
Doing Research Across Cultures: A Deconstruction of Post-Positivistic Research Projects (Poul Erik Nielsen)....Pages 29-51
Local Folktales on the Radio: Orature and Action Research (Jonas Agerbæk)....Pages 53-77
The Theory and Practice of Photo Elicitation Among the ≠Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari (Linje Manyozo)....Pages 79-98
Visual Interventions: Film, Ethnography and Social Change (Lajos Varhegyi, Richard Ndunguru, Søren Sønderstrup, Anders Høg Hansen)....Pages 99-122
Countering Malnutrition: Participatory Intervention as an Act of Revelation (Zeenath Hasan)....Pages 123-137
Ethnography of Open Cultural Production: From Participant Observation to Multisited Participatory Communication (Julia Velkova)....Pages 139-160
Writing and Methodology: Literary Texts as Ethnographic Data and Creative Writing as a Means of Investigation (Oscar Hemer)....Pages 161-182
Take the Pill, Discuss the Issues and Act: Using RCTs, PAR and FGDs to Evaluate a Media Entrepreneurship Programme in Tanzania (Linda Helgesson Sekei, Naomi Benny Lugoe, Karen Marie Thulstrup)....Pages 183-206
Back Matter ....Pages 207-219

✦ Subjects

Social change -- Research -- Methodology;Communication -- Research -- Methodology;Communication;Culture -- Study and teaching;Economic development;Social change;Sociology -- Research;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General