Reclaiming the public sphere
Subtitle: communication, power and social change
By: Tina Askanius, University of Lund, Sweden ; Liv Østergaard, Roskilde University, Denmark [editors]
Series: Palgrave studies in communication for social change
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781137398741
Subjects: Social participation; Political participation; Mass media; Social media; Social change; Telecommunication
Description: This volume connects the field of Communication for Development and Social Change to theoretical thinking on the changing notions of the public sphere. It offers a space for critical analysis of how media and communication practices for social change, on the one hand, and analytic conceptions of public spheres and participation in public processes, on the other, are currently being reconfigured in both conceptual and rhetorical terms. A range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as academics and public intellectuals, are brought together in this volume to link these multifaceted areas and arenas to the current themes, methodologies and theorizing in the field of Communication for Development and Social Change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Theorising communication for change and the transformation of public spheres. Voiceblind: beyond the paradoxes of the neoliberal state / Nick Couldry; title: Researching and developing cybercultur@: emerging local knowledge communities in Latin America / Jorges A. Gonzalez; title: Advocacy communication for and about women / Karin Gwinn Wilkins; title: The public sphere and the dialectics of globalization / Thomas Hyllanderiksen; title: Contemporary actors of social change: art, technology and public pedagogy. What is an intellectual, anyway? / Ingrid Elam; title: What I think about when I think about being an intellectual / Carsten Jensen; title: Round-table discussion / led by Thomas Hyllanderiksen, moderated by Oscar Hemer: The flattening of the public sphere and the loss of respect for knowledge; title: Interview with Måns Adler / by Liv Østergaard: The democratization of live streaming tools; title: Practitioners and practices: new communication for social change perspectives and initiatives. Beyond polemical practice: a tribute to Henry Gireoux / Geetanjali Sachdev; title: Public discourses on gender, modernity, and assaults on women in India / Jyothsna Belliappa; title: Participation in the Internet era / Rikke Frank Jørgensen; title: Communication in social movements: a new perspective on human right / Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo; title: Citizen engagement through sms audiences talking back to a reality tv edutainment initiative in Tanzania / Ylvaek Ström and Linda Helgesson; title: Accessing the public sphere in Africa through a slum radio project / Nicky Morrison and Martin Davies; title: Afterword / Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte.