Media and Development
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Media and Development

  1. 242 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Media and Development

About this book

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 the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.

How then should we respond to the growing importance of the media - including journalism, radio, television, community media and social media - for poverty and inequality? The first step is to acquire an informed and critical understanding of the multiple roles that the media can have in development. To help achieve this, this book provides concise and original introductions to the study and practice of communication for development (C4D), media development and media representations of development. In doing so it highlights the increasing importance of the media, whilst at the same time emphasising the varieties, complexities and contingencies of its role in social change.

The broad and interdisciplinary focus of this book will make it attractive to anyone with an interest in media, communication, development, politics and social change.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Development Matters
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Figures and tables
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Media for Development: Magic Bullet or Corporate Tool?
  10. 2 Participatory Communication in Development: More Questions than Answers
  11. 3 Defining Media Development: Nailing Jelly to a Wall
  12. 4 From Media Development to Development: A Long and Winding Road
  13. 5 Strategies of Humanitarian Communication: Choose Wisely
  14. 6 Media Coverage of the Global South: Who Cares?
  15. Conclusion
  16. References
  17. Index
  18. About Zed Books
  19. Back cover

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