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Brings together a team of contributors ranging from leading academic and policy institutions
Applies analyses of media-cyber developments with emerging democracies through a set of innovative, methodologically diverse studies
One of the first volumes to take a truly global, transnational approach to understanding media's role in the shaping development between developed and less-developed countries
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Paradigmatic Approaches of Media Engagement and Social Mobilization
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Regionalism and the Mediated Global Civil Society
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Television as Political Weapon: The Asian and African Experience
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Marginalized Communities and the Challenge of Democracy in the US, Africa, Central, and South America
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Strengthening African Democratic Institutions through Policy and Communication
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About this book
This volume analyzes the contexts in which emerging economies in Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Middle East, and Asia can chart their socioeconomic futures through progressive democratic practices and media engagement. Using political and development communication, along with case studies from selected countries in these regions, the volume addresses human rights policies, diplomatic practices, democratization, good governance, identity politics, terrorism, collective action, gendered crimes, political psychology, and citizen journalism as paradigms for sustainable growth. Through practical experiences and field research in the selected countries, scholars show how personal and national freedoms as well as business deals have been negotiated in a bid to create a new socioeconomic culture within the nations.
Reviews
“This collection of essays attempts to unravel our complex postmodern existence by using the constitutive discipline of communication scholarship to explicate the troubled nexus between the important concepts of citizenship, democracy and the media in a developmental setting.” (Muiru Ngugi, Senior Lecturer, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Nairobi, Kenya)
“…democracy has been accepted as the ideal mode of governance, even in far-flung societies. The issue now goes beyond how democracy has fared; it is how to make democracy work. What model is best in various societies? This question requires a dispassionate review of the status quo, and this volume offers just that. It is a collection of case studies from across the continents—a much-needed documentation of experiences as East meets West, and tribal societies are embraced for what they are. The book is a bold engagement with the present, an unpretentious review of the precolonial antecedents, and a brave contemplation of the future. Readers should be provoked to rethink concepts of citizenship, participation, locations, and custodians of power within media and society.” (Oluyinka Esan, School of Media and Film, University of Winchester, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
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Independent Scholar, Elizabeth City, USA
Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi
About the editor
Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi is an independent communication and advocacy expert. He has previously lectured at Elizabeth City State University, George Washington University, and University of North Carolina at Charlotte, among other institutions of higher education in the US, Asia, and Africa. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism and as a senior communication consultant for the United Nations and other intergovernmental agencies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Citizenship, Democracies, and Media Engagement among Emerging Economies and Marginalized Communities
Editors: Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56215-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56214-8Published: 04 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85856-2Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56215-5Published: 18 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 387
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Policy and Politics, Media and Communication, Global/International Culture, Citizenship, Democracy