Reclaiming the Public Sphere [electronic resource] : Communication, Power and Social Change /
Askanius, T.editor.
Østergaard, L.editor.
This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public intellectuals, to explore how media and communication practices for social change are currently being reconfigured in both conceptual and rhetorical terms.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Theorizing Communication for Social Change and the Transformation of Public Spheres; 1 Voiceblind: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Neoliberal State; 2 Researching and Developing Cybercultur@ : Emerging Local Knowledge Communities in Latin America; 3 Advocacy Communication for and about Women; 4 The Public Sphere and the Dialectics of Globalization; Part II Contemporary Drivers of Social Change: Art, Technology and Public Pedagogy; 5 What Is an Intellectual, Anyway?
6 What I Think about When I Think about Being an Intellectual 7 Round-table Discussion Led by Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The Flattening of the Public Sphere and the Loss of Respect for Knowledge; 8 Interview with Måns Adler:The Democratization of Live Streaming Tools; 9 Beyond Polemical Practice: A Tribute to Henry Gireoux; Part III Practitioners and Practices:New Communication for Social Change Perspectives and Initiatives; 10 Public Discourses on Gender,Modernity, and Assaults on Women in India; 11 Participation in the Internet Era; 12 Communication in Social Movements: A New Perspective on Human Rights
13 Citizen Engagement through SMS? Audiences 'Talking Back'to a Reality TV Edutainment Initiative in Tanzania 14 Accessing the Public Sphere in Africa through a Slum Radio Project; Afterword; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public intellectuals, to explore how media and communication practices for social change are currently being reconfigured in both conceptual and rhetorical terms.
Social media.
Communication.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Sociology.
Social policy.
Social Media.
Media and Communication.
Media Studies.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Social Policy.