Development communication
Subtitle: reframing the role of the media
By: Thomas L. McPhail.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781405187954; 9781405187947
Subjects: Communication -- Social aspects; Mass media -- Developing countries; Telecommunication -- Developing countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to development communication; title: Major theories following modernization; title: United nations and specialized agencies; title: The roles of non governmental organizations (NGOs); title: Differing world views of culture; title: Re-examining assumptions about technology and context within research on international development programs : a scheme for positioning an integrationist perspective; title: Information and communication technologies and the global digital divide : determinants and conditions affecting least developing countries and poor global populations; title: Communication, feminism, materialism, and non-materialism in the post-development age; title: Sonagachi project : a case-study of applying principles of development communication and participation to a community based intervention; title: Roma project : a case-study of development communication in the open; title: Society institute.