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Las mujeres argentinas constituyen casi el 51% de la población de la Argentina, pero se ven afectadas por la pobreza, la discriminación y la violencia de manera desproporcionada a pesar de que la protección de sus derechos está garantizada constitucionalmente. La historia de las movilizaciones de mujeres en el país es larga, rica y diversa. En 2015, esa historia dio un nuevo giro en reacción a un incremento alarmante de la violencia de género. Desde entonces, las mujeres han expresado sus reclamos con una persistencia y una fuerza crecientes en las calles y en redes sociales. Pero la pandemia de COVID-19 exacerbó la desigualdad de género preexistente y se constituyó en un obstáculo para la organización de movilizaciones colectivas en espacios públicos. Desde marzo de 2020, cuando comenzó una cuarentena obligatoria en todo el país, las mujeres han llevado adelante aproximadamente el 75% de todos las tareas domésticas y de cuidado no remuneradas; sus intervenciones públicas en redes sociales han estado signadas por agresiones y abusos machistas; y la violencia de género aumentó (Amnesty International, 2021; Bergallo et al, 2021; Gibbons et al, 2020). En ese contexto, el proyecto "Mujeres y micro-tecnopolíticas de la participación: prácticas comunicacionales cotidianas, ciudadanía digital y democracia en Argentina" (financiado con una beca Marie Sklodowska-Curie de la Unión Europea) investiga las siguientes preguntas: ¿qué prácticas comunicacionales cotidianas movilizan las mujeres argentinas en pos de justicia de género en tiempos de ciudadanía digital? ¿En qué consisten esas prácticas? ¿Cómo se despliegan en la vida diaria? ¿Qué obstáculos enfrentan? ¿De qué maneras contribuyen a la resolución democrática de los reclamos que expresan? A partir de una encuesta cualitativa en línea analizo las prácticas comunicacionales que las mujeres argentinas han puesto en acción en pos de justicia de género durante la 'covidianidad' -la vida cotidiana en pandemia, según la investigadora mexicana Rossana Reguillo (2021). La encuesta (consistente en dos rondas, una completada en junio de 2021 y otra a desarrollarse en agosto a posteriori del envío de este resumen) fue diseñada para toda persona que se identifique como mujer, sea mayor de 18 años y resida en Argentina. La recolección de datos se realizó utilizando la herramienta digital Sogo Survey. La primera ronda de la encuesta fue respondida por 56 personas con edades de 22 a 75 años y residencia en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y en seis (6) de las veintitrés (23) provincias argentinas. En tanto esta ronda se consideró un 'lanzamiento blando', destinado a probar la encuesta más allá del testeo piloto, su difusión fue limitada. El análisis de las respuestas revela detalles respecto de cómo se conciben el activismo y/o la militancia por los derechos de las mujeres, la escasez de tiempo libre y de descanso común a muchas a pesar de sus diferentes situaciones de vida, el amplio conocimiento acerca de los problemas que afectan a los mujeres y las diversas maneras de pensar y poner en acción estrategias comunicacionales para encararlos en el día a día. Amnesty International (2021) Amnesty International Report 20/21: The state of the world's human rights. London: Amnesty International. Bergallo, P., Mangini, M., Magnelli, M. y Bercovich. S. (2021) "Los impactos del COVID-19 en laautonomía económica de las mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe". PNUD LAC C19 PDS No. 25 Gibbons, A., Murphy, T. and Rossi, M. (2021) "Confinement and Intimate Partner Violence: The Short-Term Effect of COVID-19". Inter-American Development Bank.Mansbridge, J. and Flaster, K. (2007) The Cultural Politics of Everyday Discourse:The Case of "Male Chauvinism". Critical Sociology 33, 627–660Reguillo, R. (2021) "Escenarios, algoritmos y ecosistemas complejos: investigar la comunicación en la covidianidad". Disponible en https://www.facebook.com/amicmx/videos/conferencia-magistral-dra-rossana-reguillo-escenarios-algoritmos-y-ecosistemas-c/677674649780468/

Este ensayo breve propone elementos para una discusión crítica del problema del éxito en la investigación de la comunicación para el cambio social, y sugiere alternativas superadoras de las demandas impuestas por organismos gubernamentales y agencias de financiación a nivel nacional e internacional. ; This brief essay raises issues for a critical discussion of the problematic matter of success in the study of communication for social change, and suggests alternatives for overcoming the demands imposed by governments and donors nationally and internationally.

This study scrutinizes the trajectory of an international development communication intervention aimed at mediating, rendering public and mobilizing processes of reconnection among estranged citizens across the former Yugoslavia. The intervention, which took place between 2000 and 2005 in the wider context of post-conflict international development assistance and peacebuilding operations in the region, was known as the Videoletters project. Centered on a documentary TV series aimed at promoting the reestablishment of relationships among ordinary people affected by ethno-political divisions, Videoletters was adopted by European bilateral funders for large-scale implementation and categorized as a "tool for reconciliation". Starting from an understanding of communication as a right to which citizens are entitled, as a responsibility of practitioners and institutions, and as a capability that is socially distributed in unequal ways and has an ambiguous potential, the study looks into the contextualized potential and limitations of international development communication intervention to attend to the citizens that it is supposed to benefit. By providing rich empirical details about a process of intervention, the study argues in concrete terms for the study of development communication not as a presumably positive tool, but as an institutionally driven practice that may or may not strengthen conditions of justice, with consequences that will differ depending on the specificity of sociopolitical situations in time and space. Depending on contextual and institutional conditions and on the forms of mediation privileged/disregarded throughout the process, the deployment of a specific development communication intervention may/may not foster proper distance, and thus strengthen/weaken conditions of justice for the citizens under consideration, who are subject to the governance structure of international development assistance. By linking the practice of international development communication to a framework of justice, the study brings the political and ethical dimensions of said practice to the fore and contributes to a critical agenda for theorization and research that takes accountability into consideration and puts citizens at the center.

Introduction : communication in international development : towards theorizing across hybrid practices / Florencia Enghel & Jessica Noske-Turner -- A "success story" unpacked : doing good and communicating do-gooding in the Videoletters Project / Florencia Enghel -- "Doing good" and "looking good" in global humanitarian reporting : is philanthro-journalism good news? / Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bounce -- Shifting development discourses in public and in private : the case of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership / Ben Wilson -- Communication about development and the challenge of doing well : donor branding in the West Bank / Karin Wilkins -- Becoming visible : an institutional histories approach to understanding practices and tensions in communication for development / Jessica Noske-Turner, Jo Tacchi, Vinod Pavarala -- For celebrity communication about development to do good : reframing purpose and discourses / Lauren Kogen -- Communication and evaluation : can a decision-making hybrid reframe an age-old dichotomy? / Ricardo Ramirez & Wendy Quarry -- Communicating development results in an emerging "post-aid" era / Peter da Costa -- Epilogue : what's bad about "looking good"? : can it be done better? / Silvio Waisbord

"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are combined with attempts to look good, be it in the eyes of donor constituencies at large, or among more specific audiences, such as journalists or intra-agency decision makers. Development communication studies have tended to focus primarily on interventions aimed at doing good among recipients, at the expense of examining the extent to which promotion and reputation management are elements of those practices. This book establishes the importance of interrogating the tensions generated by overlapping uses of communication to do good and to look good within international development cooperation. The book is a critical text for students and scholars in the areas of development communication and international development, and will also appeal to practitioners working in international aid who are directly affected by the challenges of communicating for and about development."--Provided by publisher.

"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are combined with attempts to look good, be it in the eyes of donor constituencies at large, or among more specific audiences, such as journalists or intra-agency decision makers. Development communication studies have tended to focus primarily on interventions aimed at doing good among recipients, at the expense of examining the extent to which promotion and reputation management are elements of those practices. This book establishes the importance of interrogating the tensions generated by overlapping uses of communication to do good and to look good within international development cooperation. The book is a critical text for students and scholars in the areas of development communication and international development, and will also appeal to practitioners working in international aid who are directly affected by the challenges of communicating for and about development."--Provided by publisher.

Development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the growing dominance of private donors problematizes this conceptualization. Working through a political-economic analysis of development, we see global communications as an industry that channels wealth from citizens into the hands of few corporate moguls, who then have the resources to assert their agendas in a global development context. We begin by conceptualizing development and social change within communication studies, paying attention to the privatization of aid within global capitalism. Next, we contextualize our case study, describing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ONE, promoted by Bono, as the funding and management settings of the Living Proof campaign. We analyze the initiative's construction of development problems, its articulation of how communication is expected to work toward social change, and its conceptualizations of success. The dominant theme of Living Proof program is that "real people" have achieved development success, which can be shared as "proof" with website consumers. We conclude by considering how such a framing serves the agenda of privatized development within a neoliberal project.