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New Media, Development and Globalization - Making Connections in the Global South (Paperback)
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New Media, Development and Globalization - Making Connections in the Global South (Paperback)
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Loot Price R527
Discovery Miles 5 270
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New media, development and globalization are the key terms through
which the future is being imagined and performed in governance,
development initiatives and public and political discourse. Yet
these authoritative terms have arisen within particular cultural
and ideological contexts. In using them, we risk promoting
over-generalized and seemingly unchallengeable frameworks for
action and knowledge production which can blind us to the complex
global patterns and promise of social reality. This compelling book
forces us to look at these terms afresh. Drawing on more than ten
years of ethnographic fieldwork in Latin America, West Africa and
South Asia, Don Slater seeks to challenge these terms as voicing
specific northern narratives rather than universal truths, and to
see them from the perspective of southern people and communities
who are equally concerned to understand new machines for
communication, new models of social change and new maps of social
connection. The central question the book poses is: how we can
democratize the ways we think and practise new media, development
and globalization, opening these terms to dialogue and challenge
within North-South relations? Rooted in sociological debates, New
Media, Development and Globalization will also be a provocative
contribution to media and cultural studies, studies of digital
culture, development studies, geography and anthropology.
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