Issues in Development Communication

This book discusses critical but contemporary issues in development communication especially from the perspective of the Global South. Using an empirical approach. It takes a look at the background to the debate on development tracing it to the issues that led to the setting up of the MacBride Commission as well as the agitation for a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO).it dissects the concept of development and its dimensions; the concept of development communication and its multi-facets; the role of the mass media in development communication; the place of civic journalism and development journalism in development communication; the place of the democratic developmental state and development communication in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Global South; the imperative of a Pan-Global South news agency that will usher in cooperation and development in the Global South; models of development communication; a review of related theories of development; as well as theoretical framework. .