Media & Glocal Change … now online!

In 2005 Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte published the 493-page anthology Media & Glocal Change. Rethinking Communication for Development, through publisher co-operation between Nordicom and CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales) in Buenos Aires.

The CLACSO Biblioteca Virtual has now made the complete text of the book available online, divided into chapters for easier download in separate pdf-files.

This book is about exploring both the potential and the limits of communication – of using communication both as a tool and as articulation processes of development and social change, improving everyday lives, and empowering people to influence their own lives and those of their fellow community members.

The essence is communication. The dilemma is that communication will not solve every problem, although it can contribute in some ways to problem-solving – we just need to get better at knowing how.

The discipline of communication for development is currently at a crossroads, and the approaches taken over the last few decades require serious rethinking. The aim of this book is to contribute to the critical reflection about how communicaction works in process of change within the contexts of globalization.

Authors include: Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Kevin Robins, Asu Aksoy, Oscar Hemer, Silvio Waisbord, Jan Servaes, Patchanee Malikhao, Thomas Tufte, Nancy Morris, Maria Celeste Cadiz, James Deane, Ulla Carlsson, Tim Allen, Nicole Stremlau, Rafael Obregon, Mario Mosquera, Paolo Mefalopulos, Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Madanmohan Rao, Manne Granqvist, Sarat Maharaj, Gilane Tawadros, Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron, Ullamaija Kivikuru, Kemal Kurspahic, Gordon Adam, Clemencia Rodríguez, Minou Fuglesang, Kate Winskell, Daniel Enger, Ricardo Ramírez, Arvind Singhal, Peer J. Svenkerud, Prashant Malaviya, Everett M. Rogers, Vijay Krishna, Christopher Kamlongera.

The complete anthology is available online.