Reclaiming the Public Sphere

Communication, Power and Social Change

  • Tina Askanius
  • Liv Stubbe Østergaard
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Part of the Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change book series (PSCSC)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Tina Askanius, Liv Stubbe Østergaard
      Pages 1-12

  3. Theorising Communication for Social Change and the Transformation of Public Spheres

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. Voiceblind: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Neoliberal State
      Nick Couldry
      Pages 15-25
    3. Researching and Developing Cybercultur@: Emerging Local Knowledge Communities in Latin America
      Jorge A. Gonzalez
      Pages 26-46
    4. Advocacy Communication for and about Women
      Karin Gwinn Wilkins
      Pages 47-63
    5. The Public Sphere and the Dialectics of Globalization
      Thomas Hylland Eriksen
      Pages 64-78

  4. Contemporary Drivers of Social Change: Art, Technology and Public Pedagogy

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 79-79
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    2. What Is an Intellectual, Anyway?
      Ingrid Elam
      Pages 81-85
    3. What I Think about When I Think about Being an Intellectual
      Carsten Jensen
      Pages 86-98
    4. Round-table Discussion Led by Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The Flattening of the Public Sphere and the Loss of Respect for Knowledge
      Oscar Hemer
      Pages 99-107
    5. Interview with Måns Adler: The Democratization of Live Streaming Tools
      Liv Stubbe Østergaard
      Pages 108-115
    6. Beyond Polemical Practice: A Tribute to Henry Gireoux
      Geetanjali Sachdev
      Pages 116-134

  5. Practitioners and Practices: New Communication for Social Change Perspectives and Initiatives

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 135-135
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    2. Public Discourses on Gender, Modernity, and Assaults on Women in India
      Jyothsna Latha Belliappa
      Pages 137-150
    3. Participation in the Internet Era
      Rikke Frank Jørgensen
      Pages 151-166
    4. Communication in Social Movements: A New Perspective on Human Rights
      Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo
      Pages 167-183
    5. Citizen Engagement through SMS? Audiences ‘Talking Back’ to a Reality TV Edutainment Initiative in Tanzania
      Ylva Ekström, Linda Helgesson Sekei
      Pages 184-200
    6. Accessing the Public Sphere in Africa through a Slum Radio Project
      Nicky Morrison, Martin Davies
      Pages 201-218
    7. Afterword
      Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte
      Pages 219-223

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Communication for development social change public spheres participation social media public intellectual empowerment social movements human rights communication rights community media edutainment advocacy communication women's rights communication democratization gender globalization Internet media Nation radio rhetoric SMS transformation

Editors and affiliations

  • Tina Askanius
    • 1
  • Liv Stubbe Østergaard
    • 2
  1. 1.Lund UniversitySweden
  2. 2.Roskilde UniversityDenmark

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398758
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Media & Culture Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-48556-7
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-39875-8
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