Critical Issues in Communication
Looking Inward for Answers (Essays in Honour of K E Eapen)
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2001
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-0-7619-9511-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book looks at the political economy of communication and information, media in development and social change, media theory and practice, international communication technology and communication values and ethics.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9511-1 (9780761995111)
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Srinivas Raj Melkote has been a Professor in the fields of media and communication for more than 30 years. Professor Melkote is currently in his 31st year at the School of Media and Communication in Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA. He has taught at universities in India, US, and Jamaica. He served as a Fulbright Professor at Manipal University in India and is currently a Fulbright Specialist. Professor Melkote has researched and published extensively on a range of issues ranging from the role of communication in directed social change, participatory communication, international communication, health communication, communication strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention, mass communication theory, quantitative research methods, media effects, and communication pedagogy. His book Communication for Development in the Third World: Theory and Practice for Empowerment, 2nd edition (coauthored with Dr Leslie Steeves) is a core text for courses on media and communication in directed social change in colleges around the world. Professor Melkote's current interests are examining the role of media and communication in achieving empowerment and social justice. His work in social change communication examines the roles of globalization, economics, politics, and hegemonic discourse in sustaining and widening the inequality gaps between people in societies around the world.
Content
Foreword - H Y Sharada Prasad
Introduction - Srinivas R Melkote and Sandhya Rao
PART ONE: PROF EAPEN: HIS WORK AND EXPERIENCES
Reflections on Journalism/Communication Education and Research in India and Abroad - K E Eapen
Media and Development - Harold Fisher
The Insights of a Pioneer and Reformer
PART TWO: THE CHALLENGE OF LOOKING INWARD: THE CASE OF INDIA
Communications in India - B P Sanjay
Compulsions and Contradictions
Political Economy of Communications in India - Pradip N Thomas
From Pre-Television to a Post-Cable Community - Sandhya Rao
Two Decades of Media Growth and Use in Bangalore, India
National Unity in India - Keval J Kumar
Communications Policy and Media Practice
Documentary Film in India - M V Krishnaswamy
A Critical Appraisal
Culture, Ethics and Burdens of History - Anantha Sudhaker Babbili
Understanding the Communication Ethos of India
PART THREE: AN INTROSPECTIVE LOOK INTO MEDIA'S ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERMENT AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
Communication and Development - Hamid Mowlana
Theoretical and Methodological Problems and Prospects
Barking up the Wrong Tree? An Inward Look at the Discipline and Practice of Development Communication - Srinivas R Melkote and Krishna P Kandath
Using People's Organization for Development - Sundeep R Muppidi
Role of Women's Sanghams in Zaheerabad, India
Right to Information - P L Vishweshwar Rao
A Fundamental Right in a Democracy
Communication Creates Community - Robert A White
The Role of Community-Oriented Media
Looking Inward for Film Visions - Jean-Paul Restoule, Marlene Cuthbert and Bernie Harder
Aboriginal Empowerment through Film
PART FOUR: CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, THEORY, PROCESS AND PRACTICE
Values and Communication Research - James D Halloran
Emerging Challenges to Media Theory - Denis McQuail
Natural Communication - Ramona R Rush
An Unnatural Act for Mankind?
Practising Journalism Communicatively - Brenda Dervin and Robert Huesca
Moving from Journalism Practiced as Ideology to Journalism Practiced as Theorized Procedure
PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
Assumptions - Doug Newsom
Problems in International Communication
Development, Imperialism and Globalization - Colin Sparks
The Implication of the Paradigm Shifts in International Communication
The Planning of Communication Technology - Cees J Hamelink
Alternatives for the Periphery
Rethinking African Communication Research in the World of New Information Technologies and Pro-Democracy Movement - Luke Uka Uche
Regenerating Information and Communication Inequalities? - Robin Mansell
Media Ownership and Control in an Age of Convergence - Herbert I Schiller
Inventory of Textbooks in Communication Studies around the World - Kaarle Nordenstreng, Aggrey Brown and Michael Traber
Introduction - Srinivas R Melkote and Sandhya Rao
PART ONE: PROF EAPEN: HIS WORK AND EXPERIENCES
Reflections on Journalism/Communication Education and Research in India and Abroad - K E Eapen
Media and Development - Harold Fisher
The Insights of a Pioneer and Reformer
PART TWO: THE CHALLENGE OF LOOKING INWARD: THE CASE OF INDIA
Communications in India - B P Sanjay
Compulsions and Contradictions
Political Economy of Communications in India - Pradip N Thomas
From Pre-Television to a Post-Cable Community - Sandhya Rao
Two Decades of Media Growth and Use in Bangalore, India
National Unity in India - Keval J Kumar
Communications Policy and Media Practice
Documentary Film in India - M V Krishnaswamy
A Critical Appraisal
Culture, Ethics and Burdens of History - Anantha Sudhaker Babbili
Understanding the Communication Ethos of India
PART THREE: AN INTROSPECTIVE LOOK INTO MEDIA'S ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERMENT AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
Communication and Development - Hamid Mowlana
Theoretical and Methodological Problems and Prospects
Barking up the Wrong Tree? An Inward Look at the Discipline and Practice of Development Communication - Srinivas R Melkote and Krishna P Kandath
Using People's Organization for Development - Sundeep R Muppidi
Role of Women's Sanghams in Zaheerabad, India
Right to Information - P L Vishweshwar Rao
A Fundamental Right in a Democracy
Communication Creates Community - Robert A White
The Role of Community-Oriented Media
Looking Inward for Film Visions - Jean-Paul Restoule, Marlene Cuthbert and Bernie Harder
Aboriginal Empowerment through Film
PART FOUR: CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, THEORY, PROCESS AND PRACTICE
Values and Communication Research - James D Halloran
Emerging Challenges to Media Theory - Denis McQuail
Natural Communication - Ramona R Rush
An Unnatural Act for Mankind?
Practising Journalism Communicatively - Brenda Dervin and Robert Huesca
Moving from Journalism Practiced as Ideology to Journalism Practiced as Theorized Procedure
PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
Assumptions - Doug Newsom
Problems in International Communication
Development, Imperialism and Globalization - Colin Sparks
The Implication of the Paradigm Shifts in International Communication
The Planning of Communication Technology - Cees J Hamelink
Alternatives for the Periphery
Rethinking African Communication Research in the World of New Information Technologies and Pro-Democracy Movement - Luke Uka Uche
Regenerating Information and Communication Inequalities? - Robin Mansell
Media Ownership and Control in an Age of Convergence - Herbert I Schiller
Inventory of Textbooks in Communication Studies around the World - Kaarle Nordenstreng, Aggrey Brown and Michael Traber