Palgrave studies in communication for social change.
Introduction; Tina Askanius and Liv Østergaard --;PART I: THEORISING COMMUNICATION FOR CHANGE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC SPHERES --;1. Voiceblind: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Neoliberal State; Nick Couldry --;2. Researching and Developing Cybercultur@: Emerging Local Knowledge Communities in Latin America; Jorges A. Gonzalez --;3. Advocacy Communication for and about Women; Karin Gwinn Wilkins --;4. The Public Sphere and the Dialectics of Globalization; Thomas Hylland Eriksen --;PART II: CONTEMPORARY ACTORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE: ART, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC PEDAGOG Y --;5. What is an Intellectual, Anyway?; Ingrid Elam --;6. What I Think About when I Think About Being an Intellectual; Carsten Jensen --;Round-table Discussion led by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, moderated by Oscar Hemer: The Flattening of the Public Sphere and the Loss of Respect for Knowledge --;7. Interview with M̄ns Adler by Liv Ostergaard: The Democratization of Live Streaming Tools --;8. Beyond Polemical Practice: A Tribute to Henry Gireoux; Geetanjali Sachdev --;PART III: PRACTITIONERS AND PRACTICES: NEW COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE PERSPECTIVES AND INITIATIVES --;9. Public Discourses on Gender, Modernity, and Assaults on Women in India; Jyothsna Belliappa --;10. Participation in the Internet Era; Rikke Frank J̜rgensen --;11. Communication in Social Movements: A New Perspective on Human Right; Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo --;12. Citizen Engagement Through SMS? Audiences 'Talking Back' to a Reality TV Edutainment Initiative in Tanzania; Ylva Ekstr̲m and Linda Helgesson --;13. Accessing the Public Sphere in Africa Through a Slum Radio Project; Nicky Morrison and Martin Davies --;Afterword: Addressing The Challenges of the Present Continous.
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.