Foreword / Oscar Hemer & Thomas Tufte
Introduction: The challenge of the glocal / Oscar Hemer & Thomas Tufte, 13
I. GLOBALIZATION, MEDIA AND CULTURE
1 How can the glocal be local? Islam, the West and the globalisation of identity politics / Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 25
2 New complexities of transnational media cultures / Kevin Robins & Asu Aksoy, 41
3 Writing the world / Oscar Hemer, 59
COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
4 Five key ideas: coincidences and challenges in development communication / Silvio Waisbord, 75
5 Participatory communication: the new paradigm? / Jan Servaes & Patchanee Malikhao, 91
6 Communicating for what? How globalization and HIV/AIDS push the ComDev agenda / Thomas Tufte, 105
METHODOLOGY
7 The diffusion and participatory models: a comparative analysis / Nancy Morris, 123
8 Communication for empowerment. The practice of participatory communication in development / Maria Celeste Cadiz, 145
9 Entertainment-education in development communication: Between marketing behaviours and empowering people / Thomas Tufte, 159
II. MAPPING THE FIELD
10 Media, democracy and the public sphere / James Deane, 177
11 From NWICO to global governance of the information society / Ulla Carlsson, 193
12 Media policy, peace and state reconstruction / Tim Allen & Nicole Stremlau, 215
13 Participatory and cultural challenges for research and practice in health communication / Rafael Obregon & Mario Mosquera, 233
14 Communication for sustainable development: applications and challenges / Paolo Mefalopulos, 247
15 Out of focus: gender visibilities in development / Karin Gwinn Wilkins, 261
16 The information society: visions and realities in developing countries / Madanmohan Rao, 271
17 Assessing ICT in development: a critical perspective / Manne Granqvist, 285
18 'We were nobody, we were nothing': art, communications and memories of underdevelopment / Sarat Maharaj & Gilane Tawadros, 297
III. CASE STUDIES
19 Miners' radio stations. A unique communication experience from Bolivia / Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron, 317
20 The citizen, media and social change in Namibia / Ullamaija Kivikuru, 325
21 Missed opportunities in post-war Bosnia / Kemal Kurspahic, 335
22 Radio in Afghanistan: socially useful communications in wartime / Gordon Adam, 349
23 From the Sandinista revolution to telenovelas: the case of Puntos de Encuentro / Clemencia Rodríguez, 367
24 SiMchezo! magazine. Community media making a difference / Minou Fuglesang, 385
25 Young voices travel far: a case study of Scenarios from Africa / Kate Winskell & Daniel Enger, 403
26 Communication function in an evolving context of rural development / Ricardo Ramírez, 417
27 Bridging digital divides. Lessons learned from the IT initiatives of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh / Arvind Singhal, Peer J. Svenkerud, Prashant Malaviya, Everett M. Rogers & Vijay Krishna, 427
28 Theatre for Development in Africa / Christopher Kamlongera, 435