"This book takes a fresh look at development communication in the Indian context. Charting its international history and discussing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that evolved as part of the phenomenon of globalization, it links the history of India's development with development communication and discusses the role of media in disseminating information to the public.
Development Communication in Practice : India and the Millennium Development Goals analyses seven Indian newspapers for a period of seven months and evaluates the extent to which development issues are addressed in them. The findings reveal an under-representation of development issues in the media which, the author argues, needs to be addressed. Reviewing recent concepts on poverty measurement and the MDGs set forth by global scholars such as Jagdish Bhagwati, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, the book acknowledges the importance of information technology, literacy and education in the process of development.
This book will be a good resource for economists, development communication practitioners, policy makers and students and researchers working in the fields of communications, media studies and journalism."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.V. Vil'anilam
Professor Dr. John Vergis Vil’anilam, Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Amsterdam (1986). Master of Science (MS) in Communication, Temple University School of Communications and Theatre, Philadelphia, U.S.A. (1975), D. Litt. Bhagalpur University (1981) and M.A. in English Literature, Banaras Hindu University (1958) and Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Travancore (1954) has thirty years of teaching, research and administrative experience in India, and the U.S. Highlights of his long experience are given below: Vice-Chancellor and Professor & Head, Department of Communication & Journalism, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram; Adjunt Professor at the School of Communications & Theater, Temple University, Philadelphia; Visiting Scholar, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Fellow of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, in which capacity he lectured at the departments of mass communication and journalism at various universities in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Canada; K.R. Narayanan Professor at the National Institute of Social Work and Social Sciences (NISWASS), Bhubaneswar; Visiting Professor at Mangalore University (UGC Professor Emeritus), Karnatak University, Dharwar, Berhampur University, and the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism, Bhopal; Founder-Editor, Journal of Communication Studies and Indian Journal of Communication; Winner of the James W. Markham Prize awarded by the International Association for Mass Communication & Journalism, United States; Winner of the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for the best book on advertising in Malayalam; Author of two dozen books and hundreds of journal articles on mass communication, economic development, advertising, occupational diseases, rubber technology, communication education, press performance, etc. and two collections of poems and essays in English and Frequent radio speaker in English and Malayalam.
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