SDG18 Communication for All, Volume 2

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxvii

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2. Introduction: Sustainable Competitiveness in a Digital Age

   • Jan Servaes, Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u

   Pages 1-17

3. Communication for All in Africa: The Complexities of Development and Communication

   • Charles C. Okigbo, Jude N. Ogbodo

   Pages 19-49

4. Communication for All in the Twenty-First Century. Inequalities as Dilemmas in Latin America

   • Edgardo Luis Carniglia

   Pages 51-77

5. Public Service Media and Sustainability? A Critical Debate of the Value of Public Service Media in Supporting the SDG18 (Communication for All)

   • Paul Clemens Murschetz, Franzisca Weder, Eduard Frantz, Timo Meynhardt

   Pages 79-106

6. Sovereign Communication: Realising First Nations’ Media and Information Literacy and Sustainability in Australia

   • Holly Randell-Moon

   Pages 107-143

7. Tracking the Diffusion of Disinformation on the SDGs Across Social Media Platforms

   • Bashir Sa’ad Abdullahi, Habeeb Idris Pindiga

   Pages 145-174

8. SDG18: Communication for All—Including People with a Communication Disability, Children, and People Who Do Not Speak Dominant Languages

   • Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Kathryn Crowe

   Pages 175-199

9. COVID-19, Intimate Partner Violence, and Immigrant Women: SDG 18 and Overcoming Communication Barriers to Attain Goal 5

   • Satarupa Dasgupta

   Pages 201-223

10. The Importance of Sustainable Communication in the Covid-19 Period: The Case of Turkey

    • Nurcan Törenli, Zafer Kıyan

    Pages 225-246

11. Conclusion: SDG18-Communication for All—Neither Too Late, Nor Too Early

    • Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u, Jan Servaes

    Pages 247-259

12. Correction to: SDG18 Communication for All, Volume 2

    • Jan Servaes, Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u

    Pages C1-C1

13. Back Matter

    Pages 261-264

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The 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history. Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda for development forgot to dedicate one goal focused on the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. Such oversight has attracted the attention of media and communication scholars alike, journalists, and policymakers who understand that it is nearly impossible to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of communication in development. Volume 2 provides in-depth and specific explorations into regional perspectives concerning communication and the SDGs, with research on a rich array of sources, including Latin America, Africa, Australia, as well as special cases relating to timely studies such as social media, COVID-19, marginalized voices, and women's equality.  

• Inequality
• Global South
• Latin America
• Africa
• Australia
• information literacy
• disinformatoin
• communication disability

This book has filled an important gap in communication for development. The country perspectives across different regions of the world have shown that communication is inevitable in addressing key development challenges such as poverty, hunger, climate change, peace and governance. The UN should consider SDG18 as a goal in the SDGs. —Abdalla Uba Adamu, Professor, Department of Information and Media Studies, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
 
This book thematizes the contradiction between the omnipresence of communication and the secondary role it is often attributed. The book’s contributions unpack how communication has the ability to nourish the redistribution of power and open spaces for global dialogue.
—Nico Carpentier, President, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

• KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  Jan Servaes

• Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, USA

  Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u

Jan Servaes (PhD) is the former UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change. He is the Editor of the Lexington Book Series Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity and Springer book series Communication, Culture and Change in Asia. 
 
Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u is the Editor-in-Chief of Africa Policy Journal at Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria and co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development.

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