Media and Development.
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TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2018Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (317 pages)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781317754695
- 338.90014
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: media and development, a complicated relationship -- What is 'media'? -- What is 'development'? -- Media development -- Media representations of development -- Structure of the book -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- 1. The rise and rise of media for development -- The genesis of media for development -- Three models for development communication -- Social marketing -- Public health campaigns -- Entertainment-education -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Multimedia sources -- 2. Development in the news: from iconographies of disaster to post-humanitarian communication -- Introduction -- Histories of humanitarianism -- Iconographies of disaster -- Biblical crises -- Compassion fatigue -- Post-humanitarian communication -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Multimedia sources -- 3. Media, empowerment, and agency: the promises of participatory communication -- Introduction -- Dependency theory -- Feminist critiques -- Environmental critique -- Post-colonial development -- Participatory communication -- Indigenous media -- Criticisms of participatory communication and indigenous media -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Multimedia sources -- 4. Structural-adjustment and media globalization -- Introduction -- The economic crises of the 1970s and the 'neo-liberal turn' -- Globalization of the media -- Media development -- Community media -- The mobile phone revolution -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Multimedia sources -- 5. ICT4D in new media worlds -- Introduction -- New media environments - the opportunities for ICT4D.
New media environments: the challenges for ICT4D -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Multimedia resources -- 6. Development and celebrity -- Introduction -- The Asian financial crisis and beyond -- The celebrity-development nexus -- Celebrity-humanitarian spectatorship -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Multimedia sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies.
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