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[ecrea] Development Communication: Reframing the Role of the Media

Mon Aug 17 16:36:27 GMT 2009



Development Communication: Reframing the Role of the Media
By Dr. Thomas L. McPhail

Wiley-Blackwell  2009  ISBN 978-1-4051-8795-4

Development Communication: Reframing the Role of the Media offers a comprehensive examination of ?the process of systematically intervening with either media or education in order to promote positive social change.? McPhail tackles this subject through a well-rounded and thorough examination of development communication?s history, progress, and the practical and theoretical approaches to this increasingly relevant topic. McPhail and contributors explore the failure of Modernization to improve conditions worldwide and the efforts by NGO?s and other groups to subvert the status quo through grass-roots organization and bottom-up strategies. Issues discussed include environmentalism, literacy, education, feminism, the digital divide, and the use of multimedia in empowering people around the world. Furthermore, McPhail offers pertinent insights and suggestions for future avenues of investigation.

Those interested in global media, social issues, education, and politics will all benefit from the information provided in Development Communication, which has been hailed as an indispensable contribution to its field. This text presents a far-reaching understanding of development communication for students, theorists and practitioners alike.

?Development Communication is a welcome addition to the growing literature in development communication, especially the chapters on the digital divide and feminism in a post-development era. This book is compulsory reading for everybody interested in development communication.? - Srinivas R. Melkote of Bowling Green State University

?McPhail has put together another thought-provoking book. Development Communication is essential reading for anyone interested in social change in today?s globalized world.? - George Barnett of the University of Buffalo

List of Outside Contributors
Satarupa Dasgupta, Reneé Houston, Michele H. Jackson, Mitchell F. Rice, Eva Szalvai

Dr. Thomas L. McPhail is a professor at the University of Missouri ? St. Louis and the chair of the Media Studies Department, and formerly a consultant to UNESCO. He began his career with Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto.


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