Voices as Visuals: A Review of Community Radio as a Graphic Communication Tool for Intercultural Social Change
Abstract
This review examines Montoya Ortega’s dissertation on the transformative role of community radio among Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Nicaragua. Based on three URACCAN radio stations, it shows how campaigns on health, land rights, and identity enhance strategic and participatory communication. Using a mixed-methods approach, it traces the relationship between civic action, culture, and identity. The study offers graphic communicators and public service communicators valuable tools for designing social change, revealing how sound, rhythm, and collective memory can generate new forms of visual narrative.
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community radio, graphic communication, intercultural media, social change, visual storytellingReferences
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