Journal of Development Communication

With the publication of this issue of the Journal of Development Communication (Number One Volume 23), we have great pleasure indeed to announce that the publisher of the Journal, the Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom) has recently...

It would be hollow to argue with Sadiq Ahmed's statement: "In the early 1970s, following independence, Bangladesh faced daunting development challenges." (1) As it would be to dispute the World Bank's (WB) explanation for why such a situation had come...

The media is a complex non-state actor whose activities have been made even more complex by massive advancement in technology. From the primitive gong of the village town crier, the eafleteering of anti-colonial movements, the bold headlines of the...

The excerpt above was taken from an article titled Mencari Jalan Penyelesaian (Looking for Solutions) from Utusan Malaysia Online. The author decisively stated that the current situation of social problems in the country has become increasingly worrying....

The editorial advisers, staff and the publishers of JDC are indeed much delighted to receive the news from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) that they have recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate to Professor Nora Quebral of...

The first telecommunications company introduced into the Nigerian economy by the British colonial administration was known as the Posts and Telegraph (P&T), a government owned telecommunications outfit that was re-branded at political independence...

The agenda-setting hypothesis looks at the relationship between relevant emphasis given by the media on various topics and the degree of concern that the same topics may have among members of the public. As stated by Dearing and Roger, 1996, the agenda...

J.V. VILANILAM. Public Relations in India: New Tasks and Responsibilities. Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2011. 292 pages. This 292 page book documents the history of Public Relations (PR) and practices in India. It is seen more as...

The worldwide penetration of the mobile phone confirms that we are living in an e-World--a world in which electronic and digital communication play an increasingly important role. The International Telecommunications Union estimates that the number...

The global phenomenon of climate change is increasingly being recognised as a transnational challenge with complex and critical ramification on security, especially in developing countries. Analysing the current and emerging security implication of...

Johan Galtung coined the term peace journalism in 1970s and developed two opposing modes of reporting wars i.e., "peace or conflict journalism" and "war or violence journalism." He did not follow the conventional pattern of reporting in the war situation...

R. SARAVANAN (ed), ICTs for Agricultural Extension. New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, 2010. 557 pages This 557 page book documents the application of information and communication technologies to agricultural extension in 28 countries worldwide....

During the first decade of the 21st century, information technology became a major force in the lives of much of the world's population. We once spoke almost wistfully of having phones in the villages of Africa and Asia, but that reality is already...

Development journalism is one international media model that has been touted as an alternative and perhaps reaction to the traditional Western model that most often assumes private or corporate ownership and is primarily supported by advertising. Reporters,...

For close to six decades now, a lot of scholarly interest has been focussed on examining the role that the media and specifically journalists, can play in national development in developing countries. Theoretically, these observations regarding the...

With this issue of The Journal of Development Communication, 21 years of publications will be completed. We must confess to our kind readers that it has not been an easy task. We have had to cope with steadily increasing production cost. Our additional...

Twelve years after its financial crisis in the late '90s, Southeast Asia is back on its feet and is looking to make up for lost ground. To the east, India is flexing its economic muscle for its ASEAN neighbors to take note. To the north, far-flung...

The tide is slowly turning to how governments perceive youth development. Once considered a deficit, youth development is now being considered an asset. A deficit perspective distinguishes youth as the root cause of social ills such as drug abuse,...

The size, distances, poverty, illiteracy, linguistic variety and a host of barriers have prevented India's rural population, largely farmers and local craftsmen, from full inclusion in the mainstream of national growth. This is ironic given that agriculture...

A 2010 message from Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) marking five years since the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, included the following: In today's world, information...

THOMAS L MCPHAIL, Development Communication: Reframing The Role of The Media. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, United Kingdom. 240 pages Thomas L McPhail, a well-known academician and media analyst, has put together an excellent book of articles on...

This issue of The Journal of Development Communication is the Number One of the Twenty first Volume. In other words, JDC has passed 20 years of publication smoothly and uninterruptedly. The efforts by the publisher and the editors of JDC in this context...

When climate negotiators gather in Copenhagen in December for the 15th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, they will be setting a course that will move the world's governments either forward or merely...

Efforts internationally are underway to assess the quality of journalism education, a process that inevitably considers curriculum and the preparation of journalists able to meet professional standards. This article discusses three such efforts: the...

The diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has come to play a major part in development programmes around the world. Among them, the mobile phone have been used, to combat poverty and give the people an opportunity to join the...

It is evident from numerous accounts that satellites have the capacity to reach even the remotest places on earth under the open sky. Besides the developed world, many developing countries have tried to harness the potential of this resource towards...

As Singapore moves forward into the new year, the next phase of its development will be based on the creative capacity of its people, both local as well as foreign talents. The National Arts Council together with its partners from the five districts...

The astounding progress in the area of information and communications technology that we have witnessed in the late 1990s and the present time has improved our understanding of the concepts for social sciences information in particular, but still there...

During the last twenty years rapid developments in technology have led to changes in the way we work, play and learn. There is a kind of new revolution in the making, IT revolution. Castells (2000) notes that the current process of technological transformation...