Media and Development

preview-18
  • Media and Development Book Detail

  • Author : Richard Vokes
  • Release Date : 2017-11-15
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 346
  • ISBN 13 : 1317754697
  • File Size : 3,3 MB

Media and Development by Richard Vokes PDF Summary

Book Description: At the start of the 21st century, the relationship between media and development has never felt more important. Following a series of ‘media revolutions’ throughout the developing world – beginning with the advent of cheap transistor radio sets in the late-1960s, followed by the rapid expansion of satellite television networks in the 1990s, and the more recent explosion of mobile telephony, social media and the internet – a majority of people living in the Global South now have access to a wide variety of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), and live in media saturated environments. Yet how can radio, television and mobile phones be most effectively harnessed towards the goals of purposive economic, social, and political change? Should they be seen as primarily a provider of channels through which ‘useful information’ can be delivered to target populations – in the hope that such information will alter those populations’ existing behaviours? Or should they be seen as a tool for facilitating ‘two-way communication’ between development providers and their recipients (i.e. as technologies for improving ‘participatory development’)? Or should new media environments be approached simply as sites in which people living in the developing world can define ‘development’ on their own terms? This timely and original book – which is based on a critical reading of the relevant literatures, and on the author’s own extensive primary research – introduces readers to all of these questions, and helps them to reach their own informed positions on each. It also examines the history of, and current debates regarding, media representations of development. Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in Africa, and; GIS and humanitarianism in Haiti – it will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and development; international development professionals, and; simply to anyone with an interest in how media does, can, or should, change the world.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Media and Development books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Media and Development

Media and Development

File Size : 45,45 MB
Total View : 5285 Views
DOWNLOAD

At the start of the 21st century, the relationship between media and development has never felt more important. Following a series of ‘media revolutions’ th

Photography and Its Origins

Photography and Its Origins

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 4179 Views
DOWNLOAD

Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of ‘first’ photographs and pro

Photography in Africa

Photography in Africa

File Size : 92,92 MB
Total View : 7595 Views
DOWNLOAD

Gives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contemporary practice. This collection of studie

The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin

The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin

File Size : 55,55 MB
Total View : 3179 Views
DOWNLOAD

This trove of recently discovered photographs offers an unprecedented opportunity to take a closer look at Idi Amin's dictatorship and its impact on Ugandan his

The Qualities of Time

The Qualities of Time

File Size : 43,43 MB
Total View : 9965 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experi