CDSC - Communication for Development and Social Change

For a number of years now, the need for a new journal on CDSC - Communication for Development and Social Change has been discussed within a number of academic and professional environments such as the Participatory Communication Research Section of the IAMCR, the International and Intercultural Division of the ICA, the UN-agencies Roundtable on Development Communication, the UNESCO-IAMCR Roundtables on Development Communication, meetings hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, PAHO and related initiatives.

Such a journal has been started. CDSC - Communication for Development and Social Change premiered in Fall 2006, and will be published quarterly. Among the primary interests are improving life opportunities on the ground for local communities, both urban and rural, in the so-called Third World, as well as in other parts of the world suffering similar conditions. Much of this is attempted through project interventions, but also includes analyses of social movements, communication policy, and media ecology.

The Journal publishes articles and book reviews that present empirical research, theory, and practice-oriented approaches on subjects within this context. Subjects may include, but are not limited to:

o Globalization and Media
o Development Communication
o Social Change
o Development Policy
o International and Intercultural Communication
o Identity and Ethnicity
o Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Contacts regarding the journal may be made to Jan Servaes, Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, j.servaes@uq.edu.au. Questions regarding book reviews may be made to contact Dr. Tom Jacobson at Temple University, tom.jacobson@temple.edu, or Dr. Junhao Hong, SUNY-Buffalo, jhong@buffalo.edu.