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Media and development / Richard Vokes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge perspectives on development | Routledge perspectives on developmentPublication details: London : Routledge : Taylor and Francis, [2018]Description: xv, 300 pages : 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415745536 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780415745543 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9009172/4 23
LOC classification:
  • HD76 VOK 2018
Summary: "The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and development produce social changes (both intended and unintended), and by looking at how media has been, and could be, 'harnessed' by development agencies, developing world governments, NGOs, and peoples in the developing world as part of their wider attempts to achieve positive social change"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-281) and index.

"The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and development produce social changes (both intended and unintended), and by looking at how media has been, and could be, 'harnessed' by development agencies, developing world governments, NGOs, and peoples in the developing world as part of their wider attempts to achieve positive social change"--

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