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Hi all, Back from a short trip, good discussions about my latest post on Christian mission misrepresentations, time for weekend readings! Development news: Better journalism on Haiti; Coca Cola, diabetes in Mexico and the soda-industrial complex; digital sweatshops in disaster zones; communicating ‘on the ground’; Congo’s Kolwezi radio; bankrupting Sudan is a bad idea; disempowering traits of NGOs; rise of the advocacy professional; engaging with wicked problems.  Our digital lives: Operating in a world with no truth. Academia: Should we kill the conference panel? (yes, please!) Enjoy! New from aidnography A perfect digital (shit)storm: U.S. Christian missionary communication from Uganda The case of the Oklahoma-based missionary organization Luket Ministries and their recent promotional video from Uganda as well as pictures from missionary volunteers for Tennessee-based 147 million orphans shed light on several broader issues: How Uganda has become a playground for Americ

One of the recurring themes and aims of the blog is putting contemporary examples of popular communication about development issues into a broader context. The aim is to supplement my academic teaching, research and outreach and to focus on broader contextual issue, for example journalistic development tourism , rather than a specific group of people, an organization or single campaign. The case of the Oklahoma-based missionary organization Luket Ministries and their recent promotional video from Uganda as well as pictures from missionary volunteers for Tennessee-based 147 million orphans shed light on several broader issues: How Uganda has become a playground for American Christian missionary work, how unregulated the industry is, how accountability is easily dismissed as missions simply refer to doing ‘God’s work’, how unwilling or unable many organizations are to engage with constructive criticism in a post-factual media landscape and lastly, how digital media add to new powe

Hi all, I am on the road during the next couple of days-but no reason for you to spend a weekend without interesting and hopefully inspiring reading suggestions! Development news : Senegal is no country for young men; aid convoys-between easy targets and signs of hope; the political economy of ‘forgotten’ conflicts; Nigeria’s loses oil revenues-like billions of it; mining comes to Malawi; female tech activist struggle in the DRC; what’s the ‘world’s youngest dictator’ up to these days in Sierra Leone? Failed migration summit; who is reading UNDP publications?  Our digital lives: Blogging under a pseudonym; H&M sells capitalistic ‘empowerment’; being elderly and homeless in the US New publications featuring Bill Easterly, feminist activism and networks of control.  Academia: The limitations of higher education conference travel. Enjoy! New from aidnography Visions of Development (book review) In many ways Peter Sutoris’ "Visions of Development: Films Division of India

In many ways Peter Sutoris’ Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75 is one of the most interesting historical case studies on ‘communication for development’ I have come across so far; At the same time his book, based on the curation and analysis of over 250 documentaries from the state-supported Films Division (FD) is so much more: It provides a historical overview over the evolution of the post-colonial development discourse in India and is also an important study on the history of documentary film making from its origins to the peak of pre-digital production in the 1970s. And as if th ese are not already significant achievements, Sutoris also created a companion website where m ost of the documentaries he introduces in the book are now available for the first time in digital format, thus establishing a great resource for teaching, learning and further research. The hegemonic beast of bureaucracy The absence of alternativ

Hi all, Welcome to another link review-this time at bit more balanced between the 3 parts-so do scroll down to the end ;)! Development news: Lacking p unishment for attacking aid workers ; EU links humanitarian funding to migration discourse; even the FT discovers the #allmalepanel; crowdfunding innovations for development; the aid industry is constantly changing; did Angelina Jolie really plan to head the UN one day? Musical talent from Sudan; literary talent from Zimbabwe-and finally: How to be a horrible boss? Our digital lives: Can a sewing robot disrupt garment the industry? How to be writer; assessing fake Internet traffic Academia: Twitter as a teaching tool; career angst; pre-Brexit student chaos in the UK; predatory publisher buys legitimate medical journals. Enjoy! New from aidnography Apply to our Communication for Development online part-time flagship MA program! As the spring application window for ComDev’s flagship 1-year MA opens from 15 September – 17 October we