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Communication for development in the third world : theory and practice for empowerment / Srinivas R. Melkote, H. Leslie Steeves.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2001.Edition: Second editionDescription: 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761994750
  • 9780761994756
  • 0761994769
  • 9780761994763
  • 8170369509
  • 9788170369509
  • 8170369517
  • 9788170369516 :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Communication for development in the Third World.DDC classification:
  • 338.9/009172/4 21
LOC classification:
  • HD76 .M45 2001
Contents:
I: Introduction and overview -- Introduction to communication, development, and empowerment in the third world -- Evolution of the theory and practice of development communication -- II: Development discourse, modernization theory, and communication -- The enterprise of modernization and the dominant discourse of development -- Communication approach in the modernization of the third world -- III: Critical perspectives on communication and development -- Deconstructing the dominant paradigm of development -- Critique of communication approaches in third world development -- IV: Liberation perspectives on development -- Liberation theology and development -- Communication and spirituality in development -- V: Communication and empowerment -- Communication strategies for empowerment.
Summary: "This completely revised edition builds on the framework provided by the earlier text. It traces the history of development communication, presents and critiques diverse approaches and their proponents, and provides ideas and models for development communication in the new century". --Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-408) and index.

I: Introduction and overview -- Introduction to communication, development, and empowerment in the third world -- Evolution of the theory and practice of development communication -- II: Development discourse, modernization theory, and communication -- The enterprise of modernization and the dominant discourse of development -- Communication approach in the modernization of the third world -- III: Critical perspectives on communication and development -- Deconstructing the dominant paradigm of development -- Critique of communication approaches in third world development -- IV: Liberation perspectives on development -- Liberation theology and development -- Communication and spirituality in development -- V: Communication and empowerment -- Communication strategies for empowerment.

"This completely revised edition builds on the framework provided by the earlier text. It traces the history of development communication, presents and critiques diverse approaches and their proponents, and provides ideas and models for development communication in the new century". --Publisher.

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