Product Description: The aim of this book is to shed new light on this theoretically and practically significant issue, and questions the role of technology and culture in social change. It challenges us to reconsider and rethink the impact of new information and communication technologies on civil society, participatory democracy and digital citizenship in theoretical and methodological contributions, through the analysis of specific cases in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, China, Colombia, Kenya, Netherlands and the United States...read more

Product Description: The innovative and rapid growth of communication satellites and computer mediated technologies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, combined with the deregulation of national broadcasting, led many media commentators to assume that the age of national media had been lost...read more

Product Description: This volume is first and foremost about people and the processes needed to facilitate sharing of knowledge in order to effect positive developmental change. It is contextual and based on dialogue necessary to promote stakeholder’s participation, which is essential for the understanding of their perceptions, perspectives, values, attitudes and practices, so that these can be incorporated into the design and implementation of development initiatives...read more

Product Description: This volume explores the contested nature of the ownership of knowledge and access to it in Asia. It offers insights into solving some of the key issues related to intellectual property (IP) and communication in the contemporary world...read more

Product Description: A ground-breaking work, Read the Cultural Other argues that non-Western discourses cannot be contain....

The World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) has become a test-case for the 'multi-stakeholder approach'. This collection, which presents the work of members of the European Consortium for Communications Research (ECCR), attempts to discuss the major issues for a sustainable future of Knowledge Societies.

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Product Description: This text identifies and explores the relevance of development communication theory. The chapters address community participation, communication and culture from specific contemporary perspectives, and raise for discussion a number of associated methodological and metatheoretical issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text identifies and explores the relevance of development communication theory. The chapters address community participation, communication and culture from specific contemporary perspectives, and raise for discussion a number of associated methodological and metatheoretical issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume summarizes the evolution in post-war thought about development and communication and identifies the various options in communication policymaking and communication research. Case studies are provided to exemplify the major theoretical arguments.

Product Description: Participation has been the emerging theme of debate in the field of development. However, participatory communication and the impact of setting goals for social change through participatory development have not been fully discussed in the literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)