Communication for social change : context, social movements and the digital /

Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital is a critical introduction to communication for social change (CSC) theory. The book presents refreshingly new perspectives and specifically makes the case for CSC theory to factor in context, leanings from social movements a...

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Main Author: Thomas, Pradip (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India : SAGE Publications India, 2019.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Communication for Social Change: An Extended Introduction and Critique; Section 1: Dealing with Context; Accounting for Context in Communication for Social Change; Anti-Context: Infrastructure Struggles in India: Between Maoism and the State; Section 2: What Can CSC Theory Learn from Social Movements; Social Movements, Communications and Social Change: An Introduction; Learning from a Social Movement: The Case of the Right to Information Movement; Section 3: Digital Interventions in Social Change: Opportunities and Challenges; Digital Humanitarianism: Challenges and Opportunities; Contemporary Digital Alternatives: Community Informatics, The Case of Telecomunicaciones Indigenas Communitarias and the Information Commons; Making the Digital Count: E-Government, Public Sector Software and Social Change; The Other Side of the Digital: E-Waste; Index;