Participatory & Community Communication

This event took place on 15-16 October 2024. See past webinars at IAMCR's Webinars Channel on Vimeo >>

Environmental and Social Justice: Participatory & Community Communication

The Participatory Communication Research (PCR) and the Community Communication and Alternative Media (CAM) Sections held a two-day webinar on the theme of "Environmental and Social Justice: Participatory & Community Communication". Sharing the resources of a finite planet requires social justice, and ways of communicating and storytelling to cocreate our common futures. This theme anticipates the IAMCR Singapore 2025 theme of "Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet".

Download the full webinar programme and all abstracts, or access them online here.

Programme Day 1

  1. ‘Indigenous Communication in Defense of Life and Territory’, Prof. Claudia Magallanes-Blanco, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, México.
  2. ‘Bridging Governance and Tribal Wisdom: The Role of Asur Mobile Radio in Environmental Awareness and Indigenous Empowerment in Netarhat, Jharkhand’, by Soumya Jha, PhD Scholar, Bennett University, Greater Noida, India.
  3. ‘The importance of the Community audiovisual for the environmental Issues’, Prof. Adilson Vaz Cabral Filho, Universidade Federal Fluminense, and Larissa Souza Rosa Farinazzo, PhD scholar, Universidade Federal Fluminense
  4. ‘Participatory Communication to Save Water and Nature’, Prof. Amparo Cadavid Bringe, UNIMINUTO, Colombia
  5. ‘Environmental Governance and the Agentic Citizen: Lessons from Participatory Communication and Environmental Communication’, Prof. Patrick D. Murphy, Temple University, USA

Programme Day 2

  1. ‘Effectiveness of Indigenous Communication Systems in Soche Mountain Reforestation Campaign: A Case of Mwima and Chitsa Villages’, by Saizi Salim Katete Kimu, PhD scholar, North-West University, South Africa and Lecturer at Malawi University of Science and Technology; and Prof. Abiodun Salawu, North-West University, South Africa
  2. ‘Finding Humor in the Smog: A Study of Social Discourses among Netizens Advocating the Delhi Pollution Crisis through Memes’, by Ms. Kashish Singh, PhD Scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia, India; and Dr. Pragati Paul, Senior Assistant Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
  3. ‘Housing, Hygiene and Hope: Decoding Environmental Inequality in the Red Light Areas of Kolkata’, Ass. Prof. Biswadeep Bhattacharyya, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology,, India
  4. ‘The River of my Land and other stories: Indigenous women’s films for environmental justice’, Kayonaaz Kalyanwala, PhD Scholar, University of East Anglia, UK
  5. ‘Envisioning Photovoice as a tool for addressing Climate Justice: Insights from Kuttanad Region, South India’, Sreelekshmi B, Pondicherry University, India,  &  Dr S Anand lenin Vethanayagam, Pondicherry University, India.

Participatory Communication Research Section (PCR)

The Participatory Communication Research Section explores theoretical, methodological and practice-based processes and case-studies of participation in many different places and in many different contexts. We welcome presentations that address issues related to communication between community members and other stakeholders that are engaged in processes of social change. This includes subjects and processes such as: community and sustainable development, cultural heritage, communication and information rights, health communication, environmental communication, agricultural extension services, folk media, community media, social movements, activism; national and cultural identities and more; and methods such as participatory video, photovoice, community media production, participatory rapid appraisals, participatory action research, participatory arts, and so on.

Community Communication and Alternative Media Section (CAM)

The Community Communication and Alternative Media Section focuses on media that originates, circulates and resonates from the sphere of civil society.  It seeks to advance research on the objectives, practices and dynamics of community, alternative and citizens' media, including issues of localism, politics, socio-economics, language, ethnicity, gender, or other interests and intersections. Our concerns include issues of media access, participation and reception; media projects undertaken by marginalized and underrepresented groups; development and support of community-based media institutions and infrastructures; communication practices by social movements; innovative forms of media activism; interactions between classic community and new social media; alternative forms of journalism; and theoretical contributions to the research, evaluation and practice of community communication.

Registration

Location: The meeting will take place on Zoom. Pre-registered participants will receive personal invitations 24 hours before the webinar begins. 

Who can participate: The webinar is open to all IAMCR members but space is restricted. PCR and CAM section members are encouraged to attend. A limited number of guest invitations for non-members may be available.

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About the series: The IAMCR Webinar Series aims to open-up channels for engagement and participation in addition to the annual conference, while echoing the great work that is done by Sections, Working Groups and IAMCR members. The series includes presentations, debates, book and project launches. The format is flexible, the connection is what matters. Join us!