[ecrea] Call for proposals for The politics of 'looking good', whilst 'doing good': Understanding the role(s) of media in international development - DSA16

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***Development Studies Association 2016 Conference -**//**/The politics
of development/****(Oxford, UK, September 12 to 14, 2016) *

*Call for proposals for the panel*///The politics of 'looking good'
whilst 'doing good': Understanding the role(s) of media in international 
development/****

Convener: Florencia Enghel (Dept. of Media Studies, Stockholm
University) in collaboration with the DSAMedia and Development Study Group

*****Panel's rationale*(online
at******http://www.nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4621)

The role of media in international development has conventionally been
understood in one of two distinct ways: either as a tool for delivering
or facilitating positive social change amongst 'beneficiaries'
(communication for development, or C4D) or as a means of informing or
'educating' audiences within donor countries about aid spending
(communication about development, or CAD). However, recent studies
suggest that donors are increasingly combining C4D and CAD in hybrid
initiatives, with potentially undemocratic consequences. For example,
Enghel (2014) suggests that donors perceive development-driven
interventions involving communication as particularly suitable for
making them 'look good' in the eyes of their own constituencies. Engel
also calls for further research into such hybrid initiatives in order to
determine the extent to which efforts aimed at 'looking good' are being
prioritised at the expense of 'doing good'.

In this context we are seeking papers which address the politics of the
interplay between 'doing good' (C4D) and 'looking good' (CAD), through
the following questions:

• To what extent and in what forms do 'hybrid' C4D-CAD initiatives
exist, at national, international and supranational scales?

• How are different conceptualisations of 'the media' and its effects
understood within such hybrid initiatives?

• What institutional and political factors contribute to the apparent
growth in projects aimed and 'looking good' and 'doing good'?

• What contradictions are there between the politics of 'doing good' and 
of 'looking good'?

• What are the potential consequences of the overlap of C4D and CAD for
citizens' communication rights at both ends of the donor-recipient equation?

To submit a proposal, please go
to:http://www.nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4621



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