Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-99). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-99). Also available on the Internet.

Entertainment Education is a communication strategy widely used in non-formal community education for the purpose of inspiring behaviour and social change. As an international development strategy for educational interventions in mostly developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the practice is founded on persuasive communication aimed for the diffusion of ‘modern’ innovation. Entertainment Education has been commended for its efficiency in creation of awareness amongst target communities, but criticised for its inability to generate enduring practical change in the lives of the target community members. Situating this practice within Emancipatory Transformative Education, I interrogated the emancipatory principles of democratic practice in Entertainment Education as representational of an intercultural educational space. I did this with a sample case of Geenu Nti programme situated in Northern Nigeria and executed by an American centre for international development. My interaction with the programme stakeholders and audience through the use of semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and documentary analysis revealed that despite efforts at participatory practice, the programme fell short of the key emancipatory values of intellectual equality and freedom in its educational content and process. This raised the need for the reconceptualization of current approach in the management of transformative change in individuals and communities and a relational concern with practitioners’ approach to emancipatory education in general. Drawing on the thoughts of emancipatory education philosophers like Freire, Rancière and Biesta as well as trialectic change philosophers like Bergson, Chia and Ford & Ford, I conceptualised the principles of a model of emancipatory educational change practice. These principles were then articulated into a realisable interactional space with ideas drawn from Ross and Harré to develop a Model of Emancipatory Education for Change which presents an equally creative and expressive inter-subjective communicative relationship between the educator and the ‘educandee’**. Here the educator, through democratic authority simultaneously challenges and nourishes the educadee’s freedom for autonomous growth within individual and collective existential realities, while equally navigating personal growth. The model furthers the idea of emancipation as a process of subjectification to a conceptualisation of emancipation as a process of subjectified socialisation. NB **: The term ‘educandee’ is adopted from Kivelä et al. (1995) and Biesta (1998) and introduced in the later part of the work to signify my concept of participants in communicative educational engagements. I use the term educandee to convey my concept of an educational participant who, under a relatively equal power relation with the educator, actively participates in the educational process as an autonomous individual creating response to own existential circumstances under the intentional support or guidance of a skilled practitioner. This represents the ‘educated’ which is generally my preferred term as against the ‘learner’ or ‘student’ that I deliberately avoided using except when presenting the ideas of other scholars and in their own terms.

During and following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) accident in 2010, concerns about air and seafood quality were paramount. Though individual perceptions varied, many people in coastal communities in southeast Louisiana felt they had been exposed to oil- and dispersant-related compounds. We hypothesized that implementation of a Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) project would promote a more transparent and mutually beneficial relationship between researchers and the community. We conducted both in-home and community-based assessments (n=198) in culturally diverse populations most impacted by the DWH event, including the Vietnamese in New Orleans East and the residents of the Bayou communities. Levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in paired indoor/outdoor air samples and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in seafood samples were determined with chemical analysis. Data were collected from multiple self-administered surveys regarding environmental awareness and impact of the DWH event, access to, and trusted sources of, information, perceptions about safety, and selected behavioral and socio-demographic variables. In an effort to enhance public understanding of the interconnectedness of their health with the Gulf ecosystem, we disseminated the information directly to the participants as well as the larger communities at risk. Through post-dissemination follow-up surveys, we explored the effectiveness of our environmental CBPR research strategy with our primary goals being to improve risk communication and promote informed decision-making among our coastal populations. / Jessi Howard

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:29:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SuelenSilva.pdf: 2077152 bytes, checksum: 73b1fe798a6302213d0c5c51e48bfb20 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-18 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Study on the Brazil House Project in your whole by checking their origins and current panorama, as well as emphasize the experiences of Community Communication present in the Brazil House Imbariê.The research aims general to rescue the historical context of Brazil House Project and its current status as public policy and its relationship to Community Communication.Through a bibliographical research constitutes itself a whole theoretical base, especially with regard to Community Communication as power booster to communicate. The method used was the cartographic, made possible through the following techniques: documentary research, semi-structured interviews and participant observation. It is concluded that the Community Communication was provided for Brazil House Project guidelines, but as a concept and practice is a missing category in most units, because the party political and private interests outweigh the public interest, what appears to be a structural problem in the project itself.But despite the Brazil House Imbariê not take the ownership of Community Communication concept, appropriates it in practice, because the experiences developed by its users serve as an instrument of popular participation in the exercise of citizenship and promotes, in parts, the articulation of the community. . / Estudo sobre o Projeto Casa Brasil no seu conjunto verificando suas origens e panorama atual, além de enfatizar as experiências de Comunicação Comunitária presentes na unidade Casa Brasil Imbariê. A pesquisa tem como objetivo geral resgatar o contexto histórico do Projeto Casa Brasil e sua situação atual como política pública e sua relação com a Comunicação Comunitária. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica constitui-se toda uma base teórica, principalmente no que se refere a Comunicação Comunitária como potencializadora do poder de comunicar. O método utilizado foi o cartográfico, viabilizado por meio das seguintes técnicas: pesquisa documental, entrevistas semiestruturadas e a observação participante. Conclui-se que a Comunicação Comunitária estava prevista nas diretrizes do Projeto Casa Brasil, porém como conceito e prática é uma categoria ausente na maioria das unidades, pois os interesses privados e político-partidários sobrepõem-se ao interesse público, o que aparenta ser um problema estrutural no próprio projeto. Mas, apesar da Casa Brasil Imbariê não se apropriar da Comunicação Comunitária como conceito, se apropria dela na prática, pois as experiências desenvolvidas pelos seus usuários servem como um instrumento de participação popular no exercício da cidadania e promove, em partes, a articulação da comunidade.

MySpace is a social network site (SNS) that forms an essential part of modern online communication. The creation of a personal profile in MySpace allows a user to connect with a global network of friends and communicate in a number of different ways. This thesis sets out to explore the experience of MySpace in terms of the self, identity and community. MySpace will be studied from a constructionist form of social psychology that benefits from new dialects of movement, performance and process. MySpace is conceptualised as a mediated community where users shape and are shaped by their experience of using the site. This study uses empirical data taken from the natural use of MySpace. A total of 100 open-access profiles are explored for the myriad ways that users constitute the self and identity in MySpace. The analysis identifies a number of functions of mediating the self including: the brand me, the hoped-for self and the self in potential. The brand me describes the reflective ability to realise other normative capacities through the practice of blogging in MySpace. This focuses on the ability to create new forms of subjectivity in MySpace interactions. In a similar vein, the hoped-for self explains the modification of the self through the act of profile changing and focuses on the actual, everyday practices of the self. Each of these analytic themes demonstrates the importance of the relational connections in MySpace. Finally, the self is defined as in potential as the analysis demonstrates an ongoing need for a narrative construction to the profile that is performed in both the visual and the textual aspects of the page.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 2010. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2016-08-19T00:05:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Víviam Lacerda de Souza.pdf: 7292467 bytes, checksum: 6b8169c9bfdd1f9dda9a2a97673c8b41 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T00:05:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Víviam Lacerda de Souza.pdf: 7292467 bytes, checksum: 6b8169c9bfdd1f9dda9a2a97673c8b41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Study on Community Radio Boa Nova FM the municipality Senhora de Oliveira - MG, with regard to their configurations and relationships with the local community. The objectives are to identify the operating system of community radio as a way to understand how far it falls in oliveirense everyday and articulates the local drive, especially during election periods; determine the type of information conveyed; observe the feeling of listeners for the same. The study is based on bibliographic research to weave theories and guide the whole process of research, and the case study through methodological procedures such as desk research, participatory research and semi - structured interviews, and a survey of receipt by the listeners. We conclude that the Good News Radio that coexists harmoniously with the community communication also established by the speaker articulates a simplistic way information and local culture in their practices because there playing content from mainstream media, besides the fact that no be a wide participation of the community association that is your keeper; also that despite the lack of technical knowledge of most speakers and partisan political relationship present in both the operation of the station as the motivations of communicators, there is compatibility between the radio and conveys the interest of listeners. / Estudo sobre a Rádio Comunitária Boa Nova FM do município de Senhora de Oliveira-MG, no que se refere às suas configurações e as relações com a comunidade local. Os objetivos são identificar o sistema de funcionamento da rádio comunitária como forma de compreender até que ponto ela se insere no cotidiano oliveirense e articula a movimentação local, sobretudo em períodos eleitorais; averiguar o tipo de informação veiculada; observar o sentimento dos ouvintes em relação à mesma. O estudo se baseia em pesquisa bibliográfica para tecer as teorias e nortear todo o processo de pesquisa e no estudo de caso por meio de procedimentos metodológicos como a pesquisa documental, a pesquisa participante e entrevistas semi-estruturadas, além de uma pesquisa de recepção junto aos ouvintes. Conclui-se que a rádio Boa Nova, que convive harmoniosamente com a comunicação comunitária estabelecida também pelo alto falante, articula de forma simplória a informação e a cultura local em suas práticas, pois há reprodução de conteúdo da mídia convencional, além de não haver uma participação ampla da associação comunitária que é sua mantenedora. Apesar da falta de conhecimento técnico da maioria dos locutores e da relação político partidária presente na emissora, há compatibilidade entre o que a rádio veicula e o interesse dos ouvintes

O trabalho apresentado desenvolve-se na perspectiva dos estudos de comunicação e cultura. Considera-se que as relações sociais estabelecidas, em decorrência da globalização, colocam os sujeitos em situações que podem resultar em processos de desigualdade social. Considerando os efeitos que o contexto socioeconômico provoca na condição infanto-juvenil, pergunta-se se o acesso de crianças e adolescentes à produção do Boquinha, encarte do jornal Boca de Rua, pode representar uma proposta de ação emancipatória. Neste sentido, observa-se quais características emergem da produção e transmissão, construção e recepção das formas simbólicas, analisando as identificações do grupo. Para isso, utiliza-se o referencial teórico-metodológico da Hermenêutica de Profundidade, proposto por Thompson (2002), para analisar o processo de comunicação do jornal e descobrir a representação desenvolvida pelas crianças e adolescentes. Constata-se que a prática jornalística, produzida na esfera cultural, permite que os produtores criem histórias, sob a ótica da comunicação comunitária, servindo de instrumento para a construção de ações emancipatórias e para a constituição de identidades juvenis cidadãs. / The work is presented in the context of studies of communication and culture. It is considered that the social relationships established as a result of globalization, place the subject in situations that may arise in processes of social inequality. Considering the effects of the socioeconomic context causes the children's condition, question whether the access of children and adolescents to the production of the Boquinha, the newspaper insert Boca de Rua, may represent a proposal for emancipatory action. Accordingly, it is observed that features emerging from the production and transmission, construction and reception of symbolic forms, examining the identity of the group. To do so, uses the theoretical framework and methodological Depht Hermeneutics, proposed by Thompson (2002), to analyze the communication process of the newspaper and find the representation developed by children and adolescents. It appears that journalistic practice, produced in the cultural sphere, allows producers create stories, from the viewpoint of the communication community, serving as a tool for the construction of emancipatory action and the formation of youth identities citizens.

O trabalho apresentado desenvolve-se na perspectiva dos estudos de comunicação e cultura. Considera-se que as relações sociais estabelecidas, em decorrência da globalização, colocam os sujeitos em situações que podem resultar em processos de desigualdade social. Considerando os efeitos que o contexto socioeconômico provoca na condição infanto-juvenil, pergunta-se se o acesso de crianças e adolescentes à produção do Boquinha, encarte do jornal Boca de Rua, pode representar uma proposta de ação emancipatória. Neste sentido, observa-se quais características emergem da produção e transmissão, construção e recepção das formas simbólicas, analisando as identificações do grupo. Para isso, utiliza-se o referencial teórico-metodológico da Hermenêutica de Profundidade, proposto por Thompson (2002), para analisar o processo de comunicação do jornal e descobrir a representação desenvolvida pelas crianças e adolescentes. Constata-se que a prática jornalística, produzida na esfera cultural, permite que os produtores criem histórias, sob a ótica da comunicação comunitária, servindo de instrumento para a construção de ações emancipatórias e para a constituição de identidades juvenis cidadãs. / The work is presented in the context of studies of communication and culture. It is considered that the social relationships established as a result of globalization, place the subject in situations that may arise in processes of social inequality. Considering the effects of the socioeconomic context causes the children's condition, question whether the access of children and adolescents to the production of the Boquinha, the newspaper insert Boca de Rua, may represent a proposal for emancipatory action. Accordingly, it is observed that features emerging from the production and transmission, construction and reception of symbolic forms, examining the identity of the group. To do so, uses the theoretical framework and methodological Depht Hermeneutics, proposed by Thompson (2002), to analyze the communication process of the newspaper and find the representation developed by children and adolescents. It appears that journalistic practice, produced in the cultural sphere, allows producers create stories, from the viewpoint of the communication community, serving as a tool for the construction of emancipatory action and the formation of youth identities citizens.