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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (227 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319404660
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  • 361.2014
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Involving Communities as Skilled Learners: The STRAP Framework -- Practicing Engaged Research -- S for Sharing (and Transparency) -- T for Translation -- R for Relevance of the Research to the Community -- A for Accountability to Research Objects -- P for Power: Addressing Power Imbalances -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Doing Research Across Cultures: A Deconstruction of Post-Positivistic Research Projects -- Framework for the Deconstructions -- Three Studies on Media Output and Media Use -- Case 1: Monitoring the Mongolian Media Landscape -- Case 2: Audience Research in Laos -- Case 3: Television Ratings in Ulaanbataar -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Local Folktales on the Radio: Orature and Action Research -- Introduction -- Citizens' Media and Dialogic Democracy -- Change Through Contestation -- From Contestation to Dialogue Across Difference -- Inspirations for Developing the ROAR Method -- The Re-Mediation of Nthano -- Why Radio? Researching Communicative Ecologies -- Conducting the ROAR Method in Two Mulanje Village Communities -- Community Meetings -- Storytelling Workshops -- Media Audience Interviews and Meeting Stakeholders -- Dialogic Qualities of the ROAR Process and Products -- Opening Up, Closing Down-Finding Common Ground? -- Run from the Clouds! Animals Build Shelter for Schoolchildren -- Famine, Oh Famine! Navigating Minefields of Corruption -- ROAR and the Future of CSC Research and Practice -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5: The Theory and Practice of Photo Elicitation Among the ≠Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari -- Introduction -- Photo Elicitation in the Kalahari: The Performance of 'Being There' -- Research Tools in Photo Elicitation.
Sampling Photographs -- Semistructured and Unstructured Interviews -- Participant Observations Using Video -- Limitations of Photo Elicitation -- Photo Elicitation in Practice: The Lament of Rosa Meintjies -- Lessons from the Photo Elicitation Experience in the Kalahari -- Diffusion of Effective Literacy -- Problem of Memory -- Misunderstanding Ethnographic Photography -- There Is No Truth in Photographs -- Conclusion and Afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Visual Interventions: Film, Ethnography and Social Change -- Introduction: Film Screenings in Tanzania -- Project Phases and Aims: Collaboration, Compromise and Change? -- Questions Concerning Participation and Collaboration -- Different Positions of Participation and Practice -- Imaginative Leeways? -- The Faces of the Films: Jalala, Sharif and Omar -- The Films Returning to the Community -- Conclusion and Perspectives -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- The Films -- Articles, books and other sources: -- Chapter 7: Countering Malnutrition: Participatory Intervention as an Act of Revelation -- Adopting Participatory Approaches -- Considered Efforts to Counter Malnutrition -- News Media Coverage Outrages Community Sensitivities -- Building a Participatory, Collaborative Approach to Intervention -- Problem Framing as Knowledge Building -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: Ethnography of Open Cultural Production: From Participant Observation to Multisited Participatory Communication -- Ethnographic Fieldwork in Contexts of Mediated Communication -- Multisited Ethnography and Participatory Communication -- The Morevna Open-Source Animated Film Project -- The Public Communication of Morevna -- Setting the Scene of Multisited Participatory Communication: Creating Symmetries in Communication -- Moving Between Sites, Observing and Engaging in Interactions Between Participants.
Site A: Skype, the Space Between Computers -- Site B: Udemy, Following Commodities -- Site C: Libre Graphics Meeting 2014, Going Offline -- Site D: Visiting the Production in Gorno-Altaysk, Siberia -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 9: Writing and Methodology: Literary Texts as Ethnographic Data and Creative Writing as a Means of Investigation -- Writing Truth -- Holistic Interpretation -- Speculative Anthropology -- Literature as Ethnographic Data -- Four Approaches -- Conceptual Repertoire -- Rewriting History -- Passion and Vengeance -- The Power of Imagination -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Take the Pill, Discuss the Issues and Act: Using RCTs, PAR and FGDs to Evaluate a Media Entrepreneurship Programme in Tanzania -- Introduction -- An Integrated Approach with a Focus on Participatory Communication -- Ruka Juu: Edutainment for Youth Economic Empowerment -- RCT Combined with FGDS to Assess the Impact of Ruka Juu I -- The Ruka Juu Pill vs. the Sugar Pill: The RCT Research Design in Brief -- Complementary Qualitative Research: FGDs -- RCT and FGDs: Complementing Pieces in a Jigsaw -- PAR Combined with RCTs to Assess the Impact of Ruka Juu II -- Participatory Viewing and Listening in an Out-of-School Setting in Rural Tanzania -- Community Viewing: A Pilot RCT in a Rural Out-of-School Setting -- Result Highlights of the Participatory and Community Viewing and Listening -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Epilogue: Beyond Methodological Consolidation -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Involving Communities as Skilled Learners: The STRAP Framework -- Practicing Engaged Research -- S for Sharing (and Transparency) -- T for Translation -- R for Relevance of the Research to the Community -- A for Accountability to Research Objects -- P for Power: Addressing Power Imbalances -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Doing Research Across Cultures: A Deconstruction of Post-Positivistic Research Projects -- Framework for the Deconstructions -- Three Studies on Media Output and Media Use -- Case 1: Monitoring the Mongolian Media Landscape -- Case 2: Audience Research in Laos -- Case 3: Television Ratings in Ulaanbataar -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Local Folktales on the Radio: Orature and Action Research -- Introduction -- Citizens' Media and Dialogic Democracy -- Change Through Contestation -- From Contestation to Dialogue Across Difference -- Inspirations for Developing the ROAR Method -- The Re-Mediation of Nthano -- Why Radio? Researching Communicative Ecologies -- Conducting the ROAR Method in Two Mulanje Village Communities -- Community Meetings -- Storytelling Workshops -- Media Audience Interviews and Meeting Stakeholders -- Dialogic Qualities of the ROAR Process and Products -- Opening Up, Closing Down-Finding Common Ground? -- Run from the Clouds! Animals Build Shelter for Schoolchildren -- Famine, Oh Famine! Navigating Minefields of Corruption -- ROAR and the Future of CSC Research and Practice -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5: The Theory and Practice of Photo Elicitation Among the ≠Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari -- Introduction -- Photo Elicitation in the Kalahari: The Performance of 'Being There' -- Research Tools in Photo Elicitation.

Sampling Photographs -- Semistructured and Unstructured Interviews -- Participant Observations Using Video -- Limitations of Photo Elicitation -- Photo Elicitation in Practice: The Lament of Rosa Meintjies -- Lessons from the Photo Elicitation Experience in the Kalahari -- Diffusion of Effective Literacy -- Problem of Memory -- Misunderstanding Ethnographic Photography -- There Is No Truth in Photographs -- Conclusion and Afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Visual Interventions: Film, Ethnography and Social Change -- Introduction: Film Screenings in Tanzania -- Project Phases and Aims: Collaboration, Compromise and Change? -- Questions Concerning Participation and Collaboration -- Different Positions of Participation and Practice -- Imaginative Leeways? -- The Faces of the Films: Jalala, Sharif and Omar -- The Films Returning to the Community -- Conclusion and Perspectives -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- The Films -- Articles, books and other sources: -- Chapter 7: Countering Malnutrition: Participatory Intervention as an Act of Revelation -- Adopting Participatory Approaches -- Considered Efforts to Counter Malnutrition -- News Media Coverage Outrages Community Sensitivities -- Building a Participatory, Collaborative Approach to Intervention -- Problem Framing as Knowledge Building -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: Ethnography of Open Cultural Production: From Participant Observation to Multisited Participatory Communication -- Ethnographic Fieldwork in Contexts of Mediated Communication -- Multisited Ethnography and Participatory Communication -- The Morevna Open-Source Animated Film Project -- The Public Communication of Morevna -- Setting the Scene of Multisited Participatory Communication: Creating Symmetries in Communication -- Moving Between Sites, Observing and Engaging in Interactions Between Participants.

Site A: Skype, the Space Between Computers -- Site B: Udemy, Following Commodities -- Site C: Libre Graphics Meeting 2014, Going Offline -- Site D: Visiting the Production in Gorno-Altaysk, Siberia -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 9: Writing and Methodology: Literary Texts as Ethnographic Data and Creative Writing as a Means of Investigation -- Writing Truth -- Holistic Interpretation -- Speculative Anthropology -- Literature as Ethnographic Data -- Four Approaches -- Conceptual Repertoire -- Rewriting History -- Passion and Vengeance -- The Power of Imagination -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Take the Pill, Discuss the Issues and Act: Using RCTs, PAR and FGDs to Evaluate a Media Entrepreneurship Programme in Tanzania -- Introduction -- An Integrated Approach with a Focus on Participatory Communication -- Ruka Juu: Edutainment for Youth Economic Empowerment -- RCT Combined with FGDS to Assess the Impact of Ruka Juu I -- The Ruka Juu Pill vs. the Sugar Pill: The RCT Research Design in Brief -- Complementary Qualitative Research: FGDs -- RCT and FGDs: Complementing Pieces in a Jigsaw -- PAR Combined with RCTs to Assess the Impact of Ruka Juu II -- Participatory Viewing and Listening in an Out-of-School Setting in Rural Tanzania -- Community Viewing: A Pilot RCT in a Rural Out-of-School Setting -- Result Highlights of the Participatory and Community Viewing and Listening -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Epilogue: Beyond Methodological Consolidation -- References -- Index.

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