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"This book analyses a South-to-South connection between media activists and artivists - artists who are activists - in the Global South. The authors, Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega, emphasise the urgent need to engage in South-to-South dialogues in order to create more sustainable connections between Global South communities and as an essential step towards identifying and facing global problems, such as state repression, social inequality, and climate crises. Medrado and Rega analyse the characteristics of this connection, identify its unique contributions to the study of media and social change and discuss its long-term sustainability. They do so by focusing on instances when media narratives in countries of different Global South(s) intertwine and transform each other; specifically, the exchanges between Latin America (Brazil) and Africa (Kenya). They explore how media activism and artivism can be used as tools for global movement building and to challenge colonial legacies. They also discuss how to connect people with varied skill sets in different Global South contexts, promoting South-to-South solidarity, in a cross-continental challenge to marginalisation. Crucial reading for students and scholars of media activism, social movements, global media and communication, development studies, and international studies, as well as activists, and social movement organisations"--

This article discusses three research projects conducted in partnerships in diverse societies. We assess the implications of each project for media literacy's motivations and intentionality through a theory of change. For the first project, BBC Media Action, we developed the theory of change which frames this article and a media literacy training programme for in-country practitioners to strengthen media ecosystems and support resilience to information disorder. Our second project was Dual Netizenship, a youth-led, intercultural partnership between Tunisia and the UK at the intersection of media literacy, civic agency, and decolonisation. Thirdly, Digital Arts—Refugee Engagement (DA-RE) brought together refugee youth in Bangladesh and Turkey to combine media literacy and digital artivism with civic capability development. The status of media literacy as a conduit for positive change (rather than a solution in itself) was different in each partnership—from the production of counter-script youth-led media to capacity-building for refugee participants in host communities to the situating of "mainstream media" itself as the agent of positive intervention in the ecosystem. Our theory of change situates media literacy as a form of context-bound capability development as opposed to a set of neutral, universal competences. The research that we share here was conducted with "third space" media literacy design principles. In addressing both the positive change initiated by these projects and the tensions and challenges in play in the motivating imperatives of partnerships, the article speaks to the complexity of media literacy in diverse societies.

Purpose – Social media are seen as a powerful tool for fostering interactive peer-to-peer communication for socio-economic analysis in the field of communication for development. This research has been designed to shed light on the power of social media to harvest and understand socially-motivated discussions towards generating recommendationsfor organizations and governments acting at the socio-economic level. Design/methodology/approach – The study presents a large-scale analysis of social media interactions on the topic "#favela" to generate insights into a social network structure, narrative contents and meaning generated. Findings – Structurally, the analysed networks are comparable with those presented in current academic literature; automatic text analysis confirmed the promise of the inner value of communication for development opening the floor to conceptualization of the "eVoices of unheard", which is the collective and conscious use of social media to mediate community discussions about tangible and intangible issues related to socio-economic development. Originality/value – Framed within the rise of interactive communication for development this research show that social media an support the notion of voice proposed by Couldry (2010) moving from process (i.e. the recording of the voice) towards value (i.e. the possibility of giving an account of one's life and its conditions to have an impact on human life and resources) thereby understanding intangible issues related with socio-economic development.

Seletas favelas do Rio de Janeiro se consolidaram como atração turística no contexto dos megaeventos. No entanto, desde 2016, uma série de crises econômicas e políticas se desdobraram e provocaram uma redução acentuada do número de turistas. Com a pandemia do novo coronavírus, em 2020, a situação se agravou e os projetos de turismo em favelas foram paralisados. Nesse contexto, o grupo de pesquisadores e autores deste artigo, em parceria com moradores de favelas engajadas no turismo, iniciou um projeto para a produção de tours virtuais com o objetivo de manter as favelas no fluxo turístico global, ainda que de forma virtual. Nesse sentido, este artigo descreve um dos resultados dessa iniciativa, quatro tours virtuais realizados em favelas do Rio em 2020, e analisa o que precisou ser mobilizado para converter as favelas turísticas em atrativos virtuais. = Some favelas in Rio de Janeiro have become a tourist attraction. However, since 2016, a series of economic and political crises in Rio have caused a sharp reduction in the number of tourists, as well as in investments to these areas. With the covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the situation worsened and tourism projects in favelas were paralyzed. The authors of this article in partnership with favela residents initiated a project to stage virtual tours aiming to keep favelas within the global tourist flow. The article discusses the outcomes of the project, referring to four virtual tours conducted in Rio's favelas in 2020, analyzes what is needed to convert tourist favelas into virtual attractions.