ISBN:
9780803949065
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (335 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Communication and Human Values
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in Grassroots Communication : Furthering Social Change
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Women in development
;
Communication in community development
;
Women in communication
;
Social change
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The dramatic contribution of grassroots organizations to effecting social change is brought into vivid detail in this unique perspective on women from around the globe. Each contributor has been instrumental in grassroots processes of media production or has worked within the community communication field and discusses concrete action within a theoretical framework. These diverse accounts of women, participation and communication take place in a variety of geographical, social and cultural settings and provide rich material for comparative analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I - Framework; Chapter 1 - Women's Participation in Communication: Elements for a Framework; Chapter 2 - Gender in Communication: Women's Contributions; Part II - Women as Communicative Subjects: The Social and Community Dimension; Chapter 3 - Reinforcing Existing Indigenous Communication Skills: The Use of Dance in Tanzania; Chapter 4 - Cultural Distinctions in Communication Patterns of African-American Women: A Sampler; Chapter 5 - Notes for Reflection: Popular Women and Uses of Mass Media
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 - Understanding Women's Grassroots Experiences in Producing and Manipulating MediaPart III - Women as Media Producers: Developing Media Competencies; Chapter 7 - Process Video: Self-Reference and Social Change; Chapter 8 - A Process of Identity Deconstruction: Latin American Women Producing Video Stories; Chapter 9 - Losing Fear: Video and Radio Productions of Native Aymara Women in Bolivia; Chapter 10 - Shards of Remembrance: One Woman's Archaeology of Community Video; Chapter 11 - Being Women in the Popular Radio
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV - Women as Sociopolitical Actors: Building Organization and Strategies of CommunicationChapter 12 - The WEDNET Initiative: A Sharing Experience Between Researchers and Rural Women; Chapter 13 - Communicating for Empowerment: Women's Initiatives to Overcome Poverty in Rural Thailand and Newfoundland; Chapter 14 - Speak Magazine: Breaking Barriers and Silences; Chapter 15 - Women as Social Agents of Communication: Social Maternity and Leadership; Glossary; References; Index; About the Authors
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