Reclaiming the Public Sphere

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

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.

• 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

• Lund University, Sweden

  Tina Askanius

• Roskilde University, Denmark

  Liv Stubbe Østergaard

Ma?ns Adler, Founder of Bambuser, Sweden Jyothsna Latha Belliappa, Azim Premji University, India Nick Couldry, London School of Economics, UK Martin Davies, Broadcast and Media Specialist, UK Ingrid Elam, Gothenburg University, Sweden Ylva Ekström, Uppsala University, Sweden Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway Jorge A. González, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Carsten Jensen, Writer and Critic, Denmark Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark Nicky Morrison, University of Cambridge, UK Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brazil Geetanjali Sachdev, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India Linda Helgesson Sekei, Development Pioneer Consultants in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Karin Gwinn Wilkins, University of Texas, Austin, USA

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