The present article discusses the importance of the early years of mass communications in order to understand the shaping of them – the power of creating mass media for whole nations. It begins with references to scholars ...

The complexity of development and social change and growing tensions between dominant results-based and emerging learning and improvement-based approaches to evaluating de velopment interventions have created major ...

I en stadig mere globaliseret verden er kulturen det, der binder de nordiske lande sammen og giver dem en fælles identitet. Trods de mange forskelle landene imellem oplever vi os i forhold til omverdenen som nordboer. ...

Mer overvåkning I løpet av de siste 10 årene har politiet i Norge fått stadig større fullmakter til å drive kommunikasjonskontroll. I tillegg har flere type handlinger blitt gjort straffbare, som forberedelse eller ...

This article presents a study of how politically engaged young people use social media for political purposes. There has been a growing optimism that social media can stimu - late political participation and deliberation, ...

I Finland pågår vintern 2014-2015 en uppmärksammad rättsprocess mot chefen för den finska narkotikapolisen, som anklagas för bland annat tagande av muta och missbruk av tjänsteställning. I samband med processen har ...

Freedom of information, openness and transparency are words that are freely used in public discourse. Public bodies and politicians are referred to as ‘open’ if they give information and are willing to enter into dialogue ...

Jo Tacchi and Silvio Waisbord were invited guest speakers at the conference ‘Beyond the Impasse – Exploring New Thinking in Communication & Social Change’ that was held at The University of Queensland in January 2013. ...

This article argues for communication for social change theory to be based on a theory of knowledge, a specific understanding of process that feeds into practice, a knowledge of structures, a specific understanding of ...