International and Development Communication: A 21st-Century Perspective

✍ Scribed by Bella Mody

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

International and Development Communication: A 21st Century Perspective examines the exciting field of international and development communication and illustrates how this field of study is composed and how it has grown. Derived from the successful Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Second Edition, this book opens with an updated and expanded introduction by Bella Mody, showcasing the effects of globalization, and contains those chapters from the Handbook that deal with international and development communication.

The book, divided into two parts, revolves around media institutions and the conditions under which they have been used by the state and private capital. Part One covers international communication and presents the thinking of several well-known authors from areas such as South Asia, East Asia, Europe, and North America. Part Two focuses on development communication applications by various active researchers and professors, drawn from Latin America, South Asia, and North America.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Foreword
PART I: International Communication
Introduction
1 - Theory and Research in International Communication
2 - Media Corporations in the Age of Globalization
3 - Global Communication Orders
4 - Mediated War, Peace, and Global Civil Society
5 - Transnational Advertising
6 - Differing Traditions of Research on International Media Influence
7 - From the Modern to the Postmodern
PART II: Development Communication
8 - Theories of Development Communication
9 - State, Development, and Communication
10 - Development Communication Campaigns
11 - Communication Technology and Development
12 - Participatory Approaches to Communication for Development
13 - Development Communication as Marketing, Collective Resistance, and Spiritual Awakening
14 - International Development Communication
15 - Looking Back, Looking Forward
PART III: A Retrospective Prospectus
Author Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors