Watch Professor Melkote talk about Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice This book critically examines directed social change theory and practice while presenting a conceptual framework of development communication to address inequality and injustice in contemporary contexts. This third edition features significantly revised and updated chapters to include the latest scholarship on, and practices of, media and communication for development. It explores empowerment and social justice to individuals and communities around the world in the context of increasing globalization. Tracing the history of development communication, it looks objectively at diverse approaches and their supporters, and goes on to provide models for the future. It also offers a new chapter presenting the authors’ framework foregrounding empowerment and social justice as goals for development communication in the 21st century. The earlier editions of this book, Communication for Development in the Third World (1991 and 2001), are established core texts for courses on development communication throughout the world.
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Discusses the conceptual framework of development communication (devcom) to address inequality and injustice in contemporary contexts
Foreword by Late Dr Luis Ramiro Beltran Salmon Preface I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Development Commmunication, Empowerment, and Social Justice in the Globalization Epoch Evolution of Devcom for Development and Social Justice II: DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE, MODERNIZATION THEORY, AND DEVCOM Modernization, Globalization, and the Dominant Development Discourse Media and Communication in Modernization and Globalization III: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT Deconstructing the Dominant Development Paradigm Critique of Devcom in the Dominant Paradigm IV: LIBERATION PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES IN DEVELOPMENT Liberation Theology and Development Communication and Spirituality in Development V: PARTICIPATORY AND EMPOWERMENT PARADIGMS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Participatory Paradigm in Development Media and Communication for Empowerment Devcom for Empowerment and Social Justice Appendices Appendix A: Historical Overview of Development/Underdevelopment Appendix B: Highlights of Media, Communication, and Development Activities since World War II Bibliography Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789351502579
Publisert
2015-08-26
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Vekt
610 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
568

Biographical note

Srinivas Raj Melkote has been a Professor in the fields of media and communication for more than 30 years. Professor Melkote is currently in his 31st year at the School of Media and Communication in Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA. He has taught at universities in India, US, and Jamaica. He served as a Fulbright Professor at Manipal University in India and is currently a Fulbright Specialist. Professor Melkote has researched and published extensively on a range of issues ranging from the role of communication in directed social change, participatory communication, international communication, health communication, communication strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention, mass communication theory, quantitative research methods, media effects, and communication pedagogy. His book Communication for Development in the Third World: Theory and Practice for Empowerment, 2nd edition (coauthored with Dr Leslie Steeves) is a core text for courses on media and communication in directed social change in colleges around the world. Professor Melkote’s current interests are examining the role of media and communication in achieving empowerment and social justice. His work in social change communication examines the roles of globalization, economics, politics, and hegemonic discourse in sustaining and widening the inequality gaps between people in societies around the world. H. Leslie Steeves is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, USA, where she has taught for 27 years. Professor Steeves’ current research centers on two areas and their intersection: communication and information technologies in developing countries (particularly in sub-Saharan Africa) on one hand, and gender and communication on the other. Her recent publications additionally examine entertainment and tourism representations of Africa. Her research has been published in numerous journals, including Journal of Communication; Communication, Culture & Critique; Communication Theory; International Communication Gazette; and Critical Studies in Media Communication. She is guest editor of a special issue of Communication, Culture & Critique on “Africa the Media and Globalization.” Professor Steeves recently completed a film, Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfVrTSq_iKc). She has also coauthored (with Professor Srinivas Raj Melkote) Communication for Development in the Third World: Theory and Practice for Empowerment, 2nd edition (SAGE India, 2001), and published Gender Violence and the Press: The St. Kizito Story (1997). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies as well, and she serves on several journal editorial boards. In 2013, Professor Steeves received University of Oregon Martin Luther King Jr Award (for promoting cultural diversity and social justice on campus). She has received two Fulbright Scholar grants for teaching and research in Kenya and Ghana, and she directs an annual study abroad program in Ghana.