{"product_id":"new-media-development-and-globalization-making-connections-in-the-global-south-paperback-softback-9780745638331","title":"New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745638331","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDon Slater (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745638331, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 November 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e242 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.331 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e''Communications media play an accelerating role in social change and global connections. But what people make of them is not determined by technology nor by the way technologies are used in rich countries of the global north. With rich ethnographic narratives, Don Slater offers a truly global look at how the meaning of technologies is shaped by people who use them in settings from Sri Lanka to Ghana to Trinidad. People working in development agencies and living in local communities become part of the same analysis, as Slater wisely and helpfully stresses the kind of symmetries identified by Paulo Freire's model of learning.''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCraig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e''This is a book of really major importance that could have been written by no one else; its core thesis is both powerful and urgent. Slater draws on a remarkable series of empirical projects on “new media for development” which enable him to speak with real authority about what is wrong and what might remain useful about notions of “development” and the use of networking resources in “development” settings. It will have a major impact in the fields of media sociology and media studies, media-for-development and media anthropology.''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e''In this book, Slater brilliantly brings together a range of ethnographic engagements with theoretical interests in reshaping our understandings of “media,” “development,” and “globalization.” His analysis speaks powerfully to questions of knowledge production and social justice in emerging contexts of both global inequality and global coalition.''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNew 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRooted in sociological debates, \u003ci\u003eNew Media, Development and Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e will also be a provocative contribution to media and cultural studies, studies of digital culture, development studies, geography and anthropology.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements vi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Frames and Dialogues 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Communicative Ecology and Communicative Assemblages 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Media Forms and Practices 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Making Up the Future: New Media as the Material Culture of Development 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Scaling Practices and Devices: Globalizing Globalization 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Conclusion: Politics of Research: Forms of Knowledge, Participation and Generalization 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 189\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences 191\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 205\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407302521112,"sku":"9780745638331","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745638331.jpg?v=1784160181","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-media-development-and-globalization-making-connections-in-the-global-south-paperback-softback-9780745638331","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}