Introduction

Thomas Jacobson

Jan Servaes

Section I: Participatory Communication Processes

The Importance of Sensitivity to Culture in Development Work

Kate White

Problems of Social Participation in ``Latin'' America in the Age of Globalization: Theoretical and Case-Based Considerations for Practioners and Researchers

Daniel Mato

Locality in Mass Communication: An Irreplaceable Quality or a Relic from the Past?

Ullamaija Kivikuru

Section II: Metatheoretical Considerations

Principles of Participatory Communication Research: Its Strengths (!) and Weaknesses (?)

Jan Servaes

Randy Arnst

Participatory Democracy as a Normative Foundation for Communication Studies

Stanley Deetz

The Participatory Communication for Development Narrative: An Examination of Meta-Theoretic Assumptions and Their Impacts

Brenda Dervin

Robert Huesca

Transcending the Limits of Traditional Research: Toward an Interpretative Approach to Development Communication and Education

Danny Wildemeersch

The Need for New Strategies of Research on the Democratization of Communication

Robert A. White

Section III: Theoretical Perspectives

Participatory Communication as Communicative Action

Thomas L. Jacobson

Satish Kolluri

Exploring the Links Between Structuration Theory and Participatory Action Research

Edith Friesen

Discourse and Power in Development: Michel Foucault and the Relevance of His Work to the Third World

Arturo Escobar

Popular Culture, Discourse, and Development: Rethinking Entertainment-Education from a Participatory Perspective

J. Douglas Storey

Action Research: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for Development Communications

Edna F. Einsiedel

Author Index

Subject Index