Jo Tacchi and Silvio Waisbord were invited guest speakers at the conference ‘Beyond the Impasse – Exploring New Thinking in Communication & Social Change’ that was held at The University of Queensland in January 2013. The key objective of the conference was to explore gaps in current thinking related to communication for social change – in particular gaps that have arisen out of what seems to be a global turn towards behavioural change communication at the expense of a critique of structures, processes and the dominant political economy of communication for social change. The organisers had suggested that Jo and Silvio have a ‘keynote conversation’ as it were, and the following text highlights some of the issues that they felt were of specific concern in the area of communication and social change. These include: Participation; Scale; Praxis; Policies; New technologies.

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探索沟通与社会变革的新思维

Jo Tacchi和Silvio Waisbord应邀在2013年1月在昆士兰大学举行的“超越僵局-探索沟通和社会变革的新思维”会议上担任演讲嘉宾。会议的主要目的是探讨当前的差距。与用于社会变革的传播有关的思维-尤其是在似乎似乎是全球性的转向行为变革交流的过程中，出现了一些差距，而这些批评是以对社会变革的结构，过程和主要的政治经济学批评为代价的。组织者建议Jo和Silvio进行“主题演讲”，下面的文字重点介绍了他们认为在沟通和社会变革领域特别关注的一些问题。这些包括：参与；规模; 实践 政策；新技术。