How ‘sustainable’ is development communication research?

This article argues that a focus on sustainability will allow us to engage the complexity that communication research for development and social change routinely encounters. We start with a brief historical overview, move to the need for sustainability as an organizing principle, then to a considera...

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Published in:The international communication gazette 2016-11, Vol.78 (7), p.701-710
Main Author: Servaes, Jan
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