Jessica Noske-Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1400150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Noske-Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Noske-Turner |
| SIGNATURE | NOSKE-TURNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3876-4105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between rhetoric and practice of localisation in aid and development
The localisation agenda has become mired in obfuscation, distraction, justification and contradiction, with many of the genuinely transformative, systemic changes being steadily sidelined. This article explores the gap between the rhetoric and practice of localisation. We approach the debates from the perspective of a Malawian NGO, as well as from our recent research collaboration. Using a series of poetic and metaphorical interventions from arts…
Communication for Localisation
Subversive Recipes for Communication for Development and Social Change in Times of Digital Capitalism
The era of digital capitalism poses conundrums for communication for development and social change scholarship and practice. On one hand, mainstream social media platforms are an increasingly ubiquitous element of the everyday media practices of growing portions of the global population. On the other, the profit-driven architectures can make these hostile spaces for progressive social change dialogues. While a burgeoning literature exists on the …
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was broadcast for the first time on free to air (FTA) television across 49 territories in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article charts the story of this historic development and marks the first study to explore Paralympic broadcast production beyond the cultural specificities of Global North/Western-centric media practices, infrastructure availability and disability discourses. Drawing on an integrated qualitative datas…
Paralympics as a Tool for Communication for Social Change
The Paralympics was broadcast in Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time during the 2020 Tokyo Games. This offered a unique opportunity to approach this phenomenon from a communication for social change perspective. Specifically, in this paper we conceive of the Paralympic broadcasts as a form of Edutainment. This conceptual intervention raises a number of pertinent empirical questions. Would the Paralympics be relevant and meaningful to these audi…
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
The purpose of this commentary is to discuss how Paralympic coverage in sub-Saharan Africa can be effectively mobilised to stimulate discursive and structural change around disability. Paralympic coverage has demonstrated its pedagogical power to engage public(s) and challenge stigma toward disability. Yet, the Global picture of Paralympic broadcasting is deeply uneven, with audiences in parts of the Global South afforded limited opportunities to…
Communicative Development
Global media studies
Should the C4D expert survive? Rethinking expertise in communication and innovation
The notion of expertise in communication for development (C4D) is a complicated matter. While C4D is ideally framed as inter-disciplinary, this comes into conflict with the need to define and maintain boundaries around C4D expertise within organisations and agencies. In this viewpoint these tensions are unpacked with reference to recent ethnographies of aid and development institutions, and expanded upon by a reflection on intersections between C…
Rethinking Media Development through Evaluation
Making One Blood
Documentary production can pose complex ethical challenges for makers, especially when working cross-culturally. In Australia there is a long history of troubling relationships between (usually white) documentary makers and Indigenous people where powers and possession of stories emerge as a contentious issue. Through the experience of producing a radio documentary, this article explores how documentary makers can develop collaborative relationsh…
Rethinking Media Development through Evaluation
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
The purpose of this commentary is to discuss how Paralympic coverage in sub-Saharan Africa can be effectively mobilised to stimulate discursive and structural change around disability. Paralympic coverage has demonstrated its pedagogical power to engage public(s) and challenge stigma toward disability. Yet, the Global picture of Paralympic broadcasting is deeply uneven, with audiences in parts of the Global South afforded limited opportunities to…
Paralympics as a Tool for Communication for Social Change
The Paralympics was broadcast in Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time during the 2020 Tokyo Games. This offered a unique opportunity to approach this phenomenon from a communication for social change perspective. Specifically, in this paper we conceive of the Paralympic broadcasts as a form of Edutainment. This conceptual intervention raises a number of pertinent empirical questions. Would the Paralympics be relevant and meaningful to these audi…
Making One Blood
Documentary production can pose complex ethical challenges for makers, especially when working cross-culturally. In Australia there is a long history of troubling relationships between (usually white) documentary makers and Indigenous people where powers and possession of stories emerge as a contentious issue. Through the experience of producing a radio documentary, this article explores how documentary makers can develop collaborative relationsh…
Rethinking Media Development through Evaluation
Global media studies
Should the C4D expert survive? Rethinking expertise in communication and innovation
The notion of expertise in communication for development (C4D) is a complicated matter. While C4D is ideally framed as inter-disciplinary, this comes into conflict with the need to define and maintain boundaries around C4D expertise within organisations and agencies. In this viewpoint these tensions are unpacked with reference to recent ethnographies of aid and development institutions, and expanded upon by a reflection on intersections between C…
Communicative Development
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
The purpose of this commentary is to discuss how Paralympic coverage in sub-Saharan Africa can be effectively mobilised to stimulate discursive and structural change around disability. Paralympic coverage has demonstrated its pedagogical power to engage public(s) and challenge stigma toward disability. Yet, the Global picture of Paralympic broadcasting is deeply uneven, with audiences in parts of the Global South afforded limited opportunities to…
Paralympics as a Tool for Communication for Social Change
The Paralympics was broadcast in Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time during the 2020 Tokyo Games. This offered a unique opportunity to approach this phenomenon from a communication for social change perspective. Specifically, in this paper we conceive of the Paralympic broadcasts as a form of Edutainment. This conceptual intervention raises a number of pertinent empirical questions. Would the Paralympics be relevant and meaningful to these audi…
Subversive Recipes for Communication for Development and Social Change in Times of Digital Capitalism
The era of digital capitalism poses conundrums for communication for development and social change scholarship and practice. On one hand, mainstream social media platforms are an increasingly ubiquitous element of the everyday media practices of growing portions of the global population. On the other, the profit-driven architectures can make these hostile spaces for progressive social change dialogues. While a burgeoning literature exists on the …
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was broadcast for the first time on free to air (FTA) television across 49 territories in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article charts the story of this historic development and marks the first study to explore Paralympic broadcast production beyond the cultural specificities of Global North/Western-centric media practices, infrastructure availability and disability discourses. Drawing on an integrated qualitative datas…
Between rhetoric and practice of localisation in aid and development
The localisation agenda has become mired in obfuscation, distraction, justification and contradiction, with many of the genuinely transformative, systemic changes being steadily sidelined. This article explores the gap between the rhetoric and practice of localisation. We approach the debates from the perspective of a Malawian NGO, as well as from our recent research collaboration. Using a series of poetic and metaphorical interventions from arts…
Communication for Localisation
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social change (3 works)