Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Authors used the Positive Deviance approach to identify the effective communication practices of rural women entrepreneurs in Uttar Pradesh, India, who succeed against overwhelming odds. A variety of participatory processes and liberating structures - improv theater, personal storytelling, discovery and action dialogues, and card-sorting games - were used to identify the highly uncommon practices of these entrepreneurs.
Sabiescu, Amalia (author) and Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
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Paper
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2009-11-04
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Romania
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35684
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Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference 2009, Prato, Italy, November 4-6, 2009. 14 pages., Exploring potentials for using digital storytelling to safeguard endangered cultures.
Deray, Kristine (author), Simoff, Simeon (author), Petridis, Zoe (author), and Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
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Paper
Publication Date:
2007-11-05
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Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35682
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Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference 2007, Prato, Italy, November 5-7, 2007. 10 pages., Results of analysis among senior citizens of a rural community, using a "Digital Story Telling" research technique.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37087
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See C37085 for original, Pages 35-56 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages.
16 pages., via online journal., Case study examined the efforts of a rural hyperlocal outlet to adapt community traditions as engagement interventions by reimagining "society columns" as community contributors -- and using "liars tables" as listening circles. Findings show promising signs by making the processes of journalism more participatory, allowing residents to represent and share their own stories and cover a wider range of stories that are not exclusively negative. The "liars table" concept "has a steeper road ahead."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36924
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3 pages., Representative of TVE Asia Pacific speaks about his comments at the 8th Annual Symposium on Poverty Research in Sri Lanka. His session title: "Taking it off the page: alternative mediums of communication to influence change." Comments on inept media coverage of the poor and offers some basic rules of engagement in "telling media stories from the Bottom of the Pyramid."
