Communication in international development: towards theorizing across hybrid practices

• In international development cooperation, various stakeholders make use of communicationin order to promote a globally agreed agenda: multilateral, regional, andbilateral organisations; international and national civil society organisations; and theprivate sector, among others. These uses generally have one of two broad purposes:to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicatethe good done, via information and public relations. Instances in which bothpurposes are combined have remained under-researched.Little is known abouthow they overlap in practice, and therefore about how to address the tensions andcontradictions that may ensue from this overlap. The question of whether a primeconcern with making aid look good may override efforts to do good has not beensufficiently investigated until now.This edited collection starts from this question.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

Keyword

international development

communication

hybrid practices

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