Media and development
"The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and development produce social changes (both intended and unintended), and by looking at how media has been, and could be, 'harnessed' by development agencies, developing world governments, NGOs, and peoples in …
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- Full title :Media and development / Richard Vokes.
Summary
"The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and development produce social changes (both intended and unintended), and by looking at how media has been, and could be, 'harnessed' by development agencies, developing world governments, NGOs, and peoples in the developing world as part of their wider attempts to achieve positive social change"--
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- Publication Date:©2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 300 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415745536, 0415745535, 9780415745543, 0415745543
- oclc:on1015271003
- LC Classification:HD76
- Dewey Decimal:338.9009172/4
Table of Contents
Introduction: media and development, a complicated relationship -- The rise and rise of media for development -- Development in the news: from iconographies of disaster to post-humanitarian communication -- Media, empowerment and agency: the promises of participatory communication -- Structural-adjustment and media globalization -- ICT4D in new media worlds -- Development and celebrity.
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