Tag Archives: communication
Aspiration is a key capacity
Ellie Rennie (2006), in her book Community Media: A Global Introduction she argues that community media are tend to work when entirely run by the community according to their own systems and imperatives. However it is not so simple as we might think. Often Global South’s community media work under legal systems or regimes that might be […]
Internet Censorship and New Political Power of the People Using the Web
Shirky (2010) stresses how people can make use of Social Media for democratic action. What happens if such political freedom gained through the Web 2.0 is censored, has been shown in the case of instant messaging being taken down and later the entire mobile Internet being put down by the government for days in the […]
Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody in the Context of India and the Digital Divide
Shirky shows in his book “Here Comes Everybody” the potential of the Web 2.0 and its participatory character. The everybody is limited to people with an Internet access, though. By looking on India, it is important to stress the digital divide is a major threat. The digital divide is the limitation of the access and accessibility of […]
Participatory Communication
The discourse of participatory communication gathered momentum in 1970s as dissatisfaction mounted with top- down communication approaches to social change. However although all the participation is communication driven, not all the forms of communication are participatory. In fact participatory communication means working with and mainly by the people, as opposed to working on or working […]
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