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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.
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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Table of Content
Acknowledgements vi1 Introduction: Frames and Dialogues 1
2 Communicative Ecology and Communicative Assemblages 27
3 Media Forms and Practices 68
4 Making Up the Future: New Media as the Material Culture of Development 99
5 Scaling Practices and Devices: Globalizing Globalization 130
6 Conclusion: Politics of Research: Forms of Knowledge, Participation and Generalization 155
Notes 189
References 191
Index 205
About the author
Don Slater is Reader of Sociology at the London Schoolof Economics and Political Science, UK.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 242 ● ISBN 9780745679822 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2014 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2895458 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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