BookHamid Mowlana and Laurie J. Wilson.
Summary: This volume is a contribution to contemporary communication theory and social transformation. The text includes the main perspectives in development theories as well as many of the themes of modernization and social change that have preoccupied major writers since the end of World War I. It synthesizes a wide range of experiemental studies over a broad range of issues concerning development and communication and includes analyses, reviews and critical reconstructions of such thinkers and theorists as Ion Khaldun, Smith, Marx, Weber, Habermas and Khomeini. It also includes postmodern and poststructural writers and polemiasts such as Foucalt, Lyotard, DeLeuze and Guattari. Nielsen 9780801304095 20160527
Contents:
Development - a field in search of itself
beyond developmentalism - a framework of analysis
contending theories and approaches to communication and development
culture, society, and communication
communication policies and planning for development
communication technologies and development - for whom and for what?
telecommunications and its impact
the use of modern space technology in social and economic development
individuals and communities - communication and the transformation of society. Nielsen 9780801304095 20160527