Media and development

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Title:

Author:

Scott, Martin, 1982- author.

ISBN:

9781780325514

9781780325507

Personal Author:

Scott, Martin, 1982- author.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series:

Development matters

Development matters.

Contents:

Media for Development: Magic Bullet or Corporate Tool? -- Participatory Communication in Development: More Questions than Answers -- Defining Media Development: Nailing Jelly to a Wall -- From Media Development to Development: A Long and Winding Road -- Strategies of Humanitarian Communication: Choose Wisely -- Media Coverage of the Global South: Who Cares?

Abstract:

The media have a vital role to play in all aspects of development. The significance of media for development is not limited to either communicating development messages or to facilitating people's participation in defining and implementing their own development. Media and Developmentargues that media can play a myriad of roles in influencing levels of charitable donations and the public policies of donor countries, reinforcing or challenging global power relations between the North and South, as well as promoting, or otherwise, good governance, democracy, and human rights. This book provides a critical, interdisciplinary introduction to the relationship between media and development. It is unique in focusing not just on the subject of development communication, but also on media development and media representations of development and of developing countries.

Subject Term:

Mass media.

Mass media -- Economic aspects.

Mass media -- Social aspects.

Economic development.

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Summary

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.