2. +
House-keeping
Film Critique
Screening
Major Project
Forum and wiki
Next two weeks
Media and Development panel at
International Development conference at
UTSC (Feb.4th)
3. +
Issues
Changing discourse on communication and
development
Beyond Modernization and Dependency
From North-South to Multidimensionality
Diffusion versus participatory communication
Variants of Participatory Communication
Politics of Self-Representation
Self-determination and indigenous media practices
Community Media as a “public good”?
4. +
Questions
Does Participatory Development
Communication (PDC) create
dialogue and empowerment?
What are the impact of “buzz words”
and development polices?
Social Media, a “paradigm shift,
rather its old/existing models using
new forms of technology” ? (Brina)
5. +
‘ensure media pluralism, diversity of content,
and the representation of a society’s different
groups and interests . . . encourage open
dialogue and transparency of administration at
local level and offer a voice to the voiceless’
From a UNESCO mission statement
12. +
Critical and Dialogical Pedagogy
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Learning as active process of
cultural identity and self-
determination
Poverty and subjugation must
be solved by collective actions
Multiple meaning of
participations
13. +
Examples of Participatory Media
Augusto Boal (1931-2009)
“Theatre of the Oppressed”
theatre for 'humanising humanity’
theatre as means of knowledge and
transformation of the interior reality in the
social and relational field
spectators become 'spect-actors’
'the theatre is all of us’
Forum Theatre, Legislative Theatre,
Journalists' Theatre, Theatre of the Factory,
Theatre of the Office
15. +
“community media add to the social and
cultural dimensions of development by
providing channels for participation,
social and political empowerment, and
the exercise of citizen rights, as they work
for community building by transforming
individual experiences in a shared vision
of (a better) reality.”
(Milan 2009:599)
16. +
Community Media
Access and participation
structural change in power
relationships
Communication as a human right
“Cognitive justice”
With rights come responsibilities
17. +
Indigenous media and self-
determination
“Declaring development is a
performative act” (Salazar
2009)