Development communication: reframing the role of the media

In Development Communication, top media scholars explore the details of communication in areas where modernization has failed to deliver change.:.; Offers a complete introduction to the history of development communication - the process of systematically intervening with either media or education in order to promote positive social change.; Discusses themajor approaches and theories in development communication, including educational issues of training, literacy, schooling, and use of media from print and radio to video and the internet.; Explores the role of NGOs, the CNN Effect, and the pow

Introduction to development communication -- Major theories following modernization -- United nations and specialized agencies -- The roles of non governmental organizations (NGOs) -- Differing world views of culture -- Re-examining assumptions about technology and context within research on international development programs : a scheme for positioning an integrationist perspective -- Information and communication technologies and the global digital divide : determinants and conditions affecting least developing countries and poor global populations -- Communication, feminism, materialism, and non-materialism in the post-development age -- Sonagachi project : a case-study of applying principles of development communication and participation to a community based intervention -- Roma project : a case-study of development communication in the open -- Society institute