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La espiritualidad del subdesarrollo: Trabajo, trabajadores y ocio en la prensa católica colombiana (1958-1981)
Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2021), 259 pp.
"Después de la segunda guerra mundial circuló en América Latina el ideario de que los países podían “desarrollarse” si seguían ciertos pasos entre los que se incluía un cambio de actitudes y de mentalidad en su población. Según esto, los trabajadores debían capacitarse y modificar algu
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Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice
Deep Insights
New Delhi et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2015), xxv, 537 pp.
"This book critically examines directed social change theory and practice while presenting a conceptual framework of development communication to address inequality and injustice in contemporary contexts. This third edition features significantly revised and updated chapters to include the latest sc
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The Link Between ICT4D and Modernization Theory
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 22 pp.
"For some decades western institutions have shared an enormous enthusiasm for Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Nevertheless, despite the field’s ever-increasing importance, research on it remains fragmented and lacks a theoretical foundation. By establishing a li
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The New Media and Malaysian Politics in Historical Perspective
Contemporary Southeast Asia, volume 35, issue 1 (2013), pp. 83-103
"Drawing on a historical approach to Malaysia's political development since independence, this paper argues that the political effects of the rise of Malaysia's new media are best understood as being parallel to those of modernization and socio-economic change from previous decades, which augured im
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Mobilfunk und Modernisierung in Ostafrika: Adoption und Diffusion einer Kommunikationstechnologie
Stuttgart: Edition 451 (2012), 147 pp.
Multiple Modernities and Mass Communications in Muslim Countries
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 243-268
"This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers
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The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and the Passing of Traditional Society
Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2011), viii, 218 pp.
"Daniel Lerner's 1958 book 'The Passing of Traditional Society' was central in shaping Cold War-era ideas about the use of mass media and culture to promote social and economic progress in postcolonial nations. Based on a study of the effectiveness of propaganda in the Middle East, Lerner's book cla
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Modernization and its Discontents: Ethics, Development, and the Diffusion of Innovations
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 933-952
Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity
New York; London: Routledge (2010), xii, 251 pp.
Theorizing the Muslim Blogosphere: Blogs, Rationality, Publicness, and Individuality
In: International Blogging: Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), pp. 29-46
Globalization, Development and the Mass Media
London et al.: Sage (2007), 258 pp.
"This book gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization. It looks at the ways in which the media can be used to effect change and development,
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Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2005), xvii, 319 pp.
"Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts—have been shown on television in Egypt for mo
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Las telenovelas puertas adentro: El discurso social de la telenovela chilena
Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones (2003), 86 pp.
Communication for Development in the Third World: Theory and Practice for Empowerment
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks; London: Sage, 2nd ed. (2001), 422 pp.
"This completely revised edition builds on the framework provided by the earlier text. It traces the history of development communication, presents and critiques diverse approaches and their proponents, and provides ideas and models for development communication in the new century." (Publisher descr
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Kommunikation ohne Grenzen? Geschichte der Ideen und Strategien globaler Vernetzung
Rodenbach: Avinus (1999), 289 pp.
Dance, Media-Entertainment, and Popular Performance in South East Africa
Bayreuth: Breitinger (1998), 286 pp.
Mundialización y cultura
Buenos Aires: Alianza Editorial (1997), 319 pp.
Medienpädagogik
Tübingen: Niemeyer (1997), 105 pp.
