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Media and development / Martin Scott.
LIBRA P96.D45 S36 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Martin, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Development matters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Economic aspects.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Economic development.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Zed Books, 2014.
- Summary:
- Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet it can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda. Media and Development provides original introductions to communication for development (C4D), media development and media representations of development, it highlights the increasing importance of the media, while emphasizing the varieties, complexities and contingencies of the media's role in social change. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Media for Development: Magic Bullet or Corporate Tool?
- 2. Participatory Communication in Development: More Questions than Answers
- 3. Defining Media Development: Nailing Jelly to a Wall
- 4. From Media Development to Development: A Long and Winding Road
- 5. Strategies of Humanitarian Communication: Choose Wisely
- 6. Media Coverage of the Global South: Who Cares?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ([205]-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780325514
- 1780325517
- 1780325509
- 9781780325507
- OCLC:
- 872985669
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