Reclaiming the Public Sphere: Communication, Power and Social Change
Basingstoke, Hampshire et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xii, 231 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
ISBN 978-1-349-48556-7 (pbk); 978-1-137-39875-8 (ebook)
"This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public intellectuals, to explore how media and communication practices for social change are currently being reconfigured in both conceptual and rhetorical terms." (Publisher description)
INTRODUCTION, 1
Tina Askanius and Liv Stubbe Østergaard
PART I: THEORISING COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC SPHERES
1 Voiceblind: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Neoliberal State / Nick Couldry, 15
2 Researching and Developing Cybercultur@: Emerging Local Knowledge Communities in Latin America / Jorge A. Gonzalez,26
3 Advocacy Communication for and about Women / Karin Gwinn Wilkins, 47
4 The Public Sphere and the Dialectics of Globalization / Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 64
PART II: CONTEMPORARY DRIVERS OF SOCIAL CHANGE: ART, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC PEDAGOGY
5 What Is an Intellectual, Anyway? / Ingrid Elam, 81
6 What I Think about When I Think about Being an Intellectual / Carsten Jensen, 86
7 Round-table Discussion Led by Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The Flattening of the Public Sphere and the Loss of Respect for Knowledge / Oscar Hemer, 99
8 Interview with Måns Adler: The Democratization of Live Streaming Tools / Liv Stubbe Østergaard, 108
9 Beyond Polemical Practice: A Tribute to Henry Gireoux / Geetanjali Sachdev, 116
PART III: PRACTITIONERS AND PRACTICES: NEW COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE PERSPECTIVES AND INITIATIVES
10 Public Discourses on Gender, Modernity, and Assaults on Women in India / Jyothsna Latha Belliappa, 137
11 Participation in the Internet Era / Rikke Frank Jørgensen, 151
12 Communication in Social Movements: A New Perspective on Human Rights / Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo, 167
13 Citizen Engagement through SMS? Audiences 'Talking Back' to a Reality TV Edutainment Initiative in Tanzania / Ylva Ekström and Linda Helgesson Sekei, 184
14 Accessing the Public Sphere in Africa through a Slum Radio Project / Nicky Morrison and Martin Davies, 201
Tina Askanius and Liv Stubbe Østergaard
PART I: THEORISING COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC SPHERES
1 Voiceblind: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Neoliberal State / Nick Couldry, 15
2 Researching and Developing Cybercultur@: Emerging Local Knowledge Communities in Latin America / Jorge A. Gonzalez,26
3 Advocacy Communication for and about Women / Karin Gwinn Wilkins, 47
4 The Public Sphere and the Dialectics of Globalization / Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 64
PART II: CONTEMPORARY DRIVERS OF SOCIAL CHANGE: ART, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC PEDAGOGY
5 What Is an Intellectual, Anyway? / Ingrid Elam, 81
6 What I Think about When I Think about Being an Intellectual / Carsten Jensen, 86
7 Round-table Discussion Led by Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The Flattening of the Public Sphere and the Loss of Respect for Knowledge / Oscar Hemer, 99
8 Interview with Måns Adler: The Democratization of Live Streaming Tools / Liv Stubbe Østergaard, 108
9 Beyond Polemical Practice: A Tribute to Henry Gireoux / Geetanjali Sachdev, 116
PART III: PRACTITIONERS AND PRACTICES: NEW COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE PERSPECTIVES AND INITIATIVES
10 Public Discourses on Gender, Modernity, and Assaults on Women in India / Jyothsna Latha Belliappa, 137
11 Participation in the Internet Era / Rikke Frank Jørgensen, 151
12 Communication in Social Movements: A New Perspective on Human Rights / Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo, 167
13 Citizen Engagement through SMS? Audiences 'Talking Back' to a Reality TV Edutainment Initiative in Tanzania / Ylva Ekström and Linda Helgesson Sekei, 184
14 Accessing the Public Sphere in Africa through a Slum Radio Project / Nicky Morrison and Martin Davies, 201
