In Comparative Political Studies
Dr. Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner of the University of Virginia | May 2022

Dyuti Saunik | Avani Kapur | Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner | Jessica Mayberry | Aug 2021

A glimpse towards transforming women’s identities to Dismantle Patriarchy | Oct 2020

This case shows how a civil society organisation can adapt digital tools and tactics to bring its primary constituents into organisational decision-making and governance, build a listening, learning and training community and grow its accountability and resilience.

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) presented this award to Pooja Ichplani, Archna Kumar, Rupa Upadhyay and Jessica Mayberry, for their joint paper “Communication Processes, Community Mobilization and Normative Shifts: Learnings from Video Volunteers’ India Unheard Program”. Read the press release and read this award-winning research report on VV’s model.

VV’s work is cited as a best practice of Feminist Research by the organizations IDRC and American Jewish World Service

The Journal of Development Communication | Engaging Rural Communities in Communication Processes. Lessons from Video Volunteers’ India Unheard Program | 2018

Video for Change, Wumen Bagun: Communication for Development and Social Change Bulletin | 2018

India Unheard: Community Journalists Turned Activists Take on Rural Issues | 2018

| Video Volunteers’ work to Combat Human Trafficking | 2017

| THE VIDEO VOLUNTEERS’ REPORTING AND DATA-SURVEYING MODEL | 2017

| Changing India one video at a time | A report on 10 years of VV’s work on gender issues | 2017

University of Delhi Masters Dissertation CC’s and Micro-Level Changes | 2017

PAUL CRAEGER

| Fulbright Scholar, Minnesota, USA | Research on Video Volunteers as a Model for School Education in the US | 2016

AKSHAY ROONGTA

| MA student, Alto University, Helsinki | Using Video and New Technologies as a Monitoring and Evaluation Tool | 2015

LUELLA AMY

| PhD Scholar, Department of Communication, Hyderabad University, India | Studying Citizen Journalism | 2014

ERICK MATZANZA

| Fellow at Kantari Institute, Kerala, India | VV as a Model for Kenya | 2014

TANIA NOTLEY

| Lecturer, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia | Video Volunteers Impact Case Study and Measuring Impact | Commissioned by the V4C Network | 2014

LIZZY GEBLE

| Bachelors Thesis for a German University | Indian Community Media, Comparing it to German Media | 2014

at the University of Hyderabad did one of the first ever studies of community media looking at the content and products, rather than process. Dr. Kanchan Malik coded and studied 127 videos produced by VV’s Women Community Monitors, who worked as part of a large scale UNDP program. The videos were on women’s empowerment, and the goal of the study was to ascertain whether a video alone could capture empowerment. | 2013

MARTIN HEIDELBERGER

| PhD candidate, Humboldt University, Berlin | Local Actors of Global News Industry | 2013

MANJARI SHARMA

| Department of Development Communication & Extension, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi |MA Dissertation on VV | 2013

STUDENT INTERNS

created reports on VV’s role in the global freedom of expression movement around ‘right to voice’. The business model of a rural stringers network, and an in-depth analysis of VV’s corruption videos (2013)

| Masters Student, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom | Rethinking Media Development | 2013

EVA HOFFMAN & FRIEDER PIAZENA

| ASA Research Interns, Germany | Research on Community Media Models in Comparision to Mainstream | 2013

IIM AHMEDABAD, INDIA

| Report on Making Community Video Units Sustainable | 2011

KNIGHT FOUNDATION, USA

| Report on their Grantees in the Training and Empowerment Space | 2011

| Cambridge University, United Kingdom | Research Paper on Community Video Unit in Andhra Pradesh | 2010

| Power to Voice | Field Stories from Community Video Units in India | 2010

ALEXANDRA PINSCHMIDT

| Masters Thesis, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA | A Practitioner Report to Imagine India’s Video Volunteers’ Community Video Unit Modeled in an American Context | 2010

| Report on Branding Project on VV | 2009

| Videoshala – Community Video for Citizenship, Diversity and Education | 2009

| Toolkit Prepared by Video Volunteers for Videoactive Girls project of Global Fund for Children | 2009

PARTH S. SHASTRI

| Masters Thesis, Faculty of Journalism and Communication, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India| A Study on Yuvshakti Community Video Unit at Halol initiated by Drishti Media and Video Volunteers |

| Tata Institute of Social Sciences | MA Dissertation on VV | 2006