Reclaiming the public sphere: communication, power and social change

In: Palgrave studies in communication for social change

Abstract

This volume seeks to connect the field of Communication for Development and Social Change to theoretical thinking on the changing notions of the public sphere. It offers a space for critical analysis of how media and communication practices for social change, on the one hand, and analytic conceptions of public spheres and participation, on the other, are currently being reconfigured in both conceptual and rhetorical terms. A range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as academics and public intellectuals, has been assembled to link these multifaceted areas and arenas to the methodologies, themes and current theorizing in the field of Communication for Development and Social Change.