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In May 2015 the journal Communication Theory published a special issue entitled ‘Advocacy and Communication for Social Change’, guest edited by Karin Wilkins and Jan Servaes. In one of the articles, Rico Lie and Jan Servaes declared:
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Wildermuth, N., Ngomba, T. (2016). Introduction. In: Wildermuth, N., Ngomba, T. (eds) Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40466-0_1
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