Dr Linje Manyozo, STC. S119D

This course is capped and is compulsory for those on the MSc Media, Communication and Development. It is an optional course for students on the MSc Media and Communications/MSc Media and Communications (Research)/MSc Media and Communications (Media and Communication Governance). This course is only available to students on MSc programmes within the Department of Media and Communications.

The content of the course is framed to address the tensions between 'media for development' and 'communication for development', while challenging mainstream perspectives on the role of media and communication in low income countries. It achieves this aim by emphasising the conflictual relationships between economic and political power and the empowerment of individuals, as well as among collective groupings within their local contexts.

The course offers a critique of the scholarly and policy oriented literature that regards the media, information, and communication strategies and information and communication technology applications, as potential means of alleviating poverty and fostering democracy as well as human rights in low-income countries. It offers alternative theorisations of the contested way in which developments in these areas become embedded in the cultural and social fabric, especially where poverty and unequal power relations influence the capacities of individuals to make changes in their lives.

Lecture (one-hour) x 10 MT and x 1 ST (revision): seminar (one-hour) x 9 MT.

All students are expected to complete advance reading, prepare seminar presentations, and submit one essay of 1,500 words.

Freire, P. (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Continuum; Hemer, O. and Tufte, T. (eds) (2005) Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development, Buenos Aires: CLACSO and NORDICOM; International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems. (2004) One World: Communication and Society, Today and Tomorrow; Towards a New More Just and More Efficient World information and communication order, London, New York and Paris: UNESCO and Roman & Littlefield; Mansell, R. and Wehn, U. (Eds) (1998) Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press; Manyozo, L (2011) People's Radio: Communicating Change Across Africa. Penang, Malaysia: Southbound; Melkote, S. and Steeves, H. L. (2001) Communication for Development in the Third World: Theory and practice for empowerment, New Delhi and Thousand Oaks CA: Sage; Quebral, N. (1988) Development Communication, Laguna: UPLB College of Agriculture; Mayo, M and Craig, G., (Eds.) (1995)Community Empowerment: A Reader in Participation and Development, London and New Jersey: ZED Books; Servaes, J (ed.) (2008) Communication for Development and Social Change. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, CA and Singapore: Sage; Taylor, J., Wilkinson, D., and Cheers, B. (2008) Working with Communities in Health and Human Services, Oxford: Oxford University Press

A formal two-hour examination in the ST: two questions from a choice of five.