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| Foreword |
H Y Sharada Prasad |
| Introduction |
Srinivas R Melkote and Sandhya Rao |
| PART ONE: PROF EAPEN: HIS WORK AND EXPERIENCES |
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| Reflections on Journalism/Communication Education and Research in India and Abroad |
K E Eapen |
| Media and Development |
Harold Fisher |
| The Insights of a Pioneer and Reformer |
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| PART TWO: THE CHALLENGE OF LOOKING INWARD: THE CASE OF INDIA |
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| Communications in India |
B P Sanjay |
| Compulsions and Contradictions |
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| Political Economy of Communications in India |
Pradip N Thomas |
| From Pre-Television to a Post-Cable Community |
Sandhya Rao |
| Two Decades of Media Growth and Use in Bangalore, India |
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| National Unity in India |
Keval J Kumar |
| Communications Policy and Media Practice |
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| Documentary Film in India |
M V Krishnaswamy |
| A Critical Appraisal |
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| Culture, Ethics and Burdens of History |
Anantha Sudhaker Babbili |
| Understanding the Communication Ethos of India |
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| PART THREE: AN INTROSPECTIVE LOOK INTO MEDIA'S ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERMENT AND BUILDING COMMUNITY |
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| Communication and Development |
Hamid Mowlana |
| Theoretical and Methodological Problems and Prospects |
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| Barking up the Wrong Tree? An Inward Look at the Discipline and Practice of Development Communication |
Srinivas R Melkote and Krishna P Kandath |
| Using People's Organization for Development |
Sundeep R Muppidi |
| Role of Women's <i>Sanghams</i> in Zaheerabad, India |
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| Right to Information |
P L Vishweshwar Rao |
| A Fundamental Right in a Democracy |
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| Communication Creates Community |
Robert A White |
| The Role of Community-Oriented Media |
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| Looking Inward for Film Visions |
Jean-Paul Restoule, Marlene Cuthbert and Bernie Harder |
| Aboriginal Empowerment through Film |
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| PART FOUR: CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, THEORY, PROCESS AND PRACTICE |
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| Values and Communication Research |
James D Halloran |
| Emerging Challenges to Media Theory |
Denis McQuail |
| Natural Communication |
Ramona R Rush |
| An Unnatural Act for Mankind? |
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| Practising Journalism Communicatively |
Brenda Dervin and Robert Huesca |
| Moving from Journalism Practiced as Ideology to Journalism Practiced as Theorized Procedure |
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| PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES |
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| Assumptions |
Doug Newsom |
| Problems in International Communication |
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| Development, Imperialism and Globalization |
Colin Sparks |
| The Implication of the Paradigm Shifts in International Communication |
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| The Planning of Communication Technology |
Cees J Hamelink |
| Alternatives for the Periphery |
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| Rethinking African Communication Research in the World of New Information Technologies and Pro-Democracy Movement |
Luke Uka Uche |
| Regenerating Information and Communication Inequalities? |
Robin Mansell |
| Media Ownership and Control in an Age of Convergence |
Herbert I Schiller |
| Inventory of Textbooks in Communication Studies around the World |
Kaarle Nordenstreng, Aggrey Brown and Michael Traber |