Participatory Communication or Competitive Equilibrium

Participatory Communication: Working for Change and Development

Author: Shirley A Ed Whit

This pioneering and thought-provoking volume explores the strengths, weaknesses, and complex nature of participation in many diverse settings while pinpointing important related concepts such as power and control, conscientization, and empowerment and self-reliance. Two central themes run throughout Participatory Communication: development communication must be dialogic and transactional; and development communicators must play a critical role in offering new philosophies, concepts, and models which facilitate participation at all stages of the development process. With its judicious blend of theoretical models and case studies and its refreshing ability to challenge received wisdom concerning participation, development, and communication processes, Participatory Communication will interest a wide range of academics and professionals as well as voluntary agencies. "This book comes close to being unrivalled for its scope . . . and reflects the sincerity and concern of the contributors for the toiling marginalised muted millions." -Economic and Political Weekly "As a professor of development communication myself, I intend to read the book again and again. It fulfills the voracious requirements of the duty to profess to students. It is a virtual encyclopedia on development communication, what with its 21 chapters dedicated to one or the other aspect of the philosophies, theories, models, practices, and history of that field, particularly the concept of participation . . . All in all, the book celebrates a philosophy that 'has influenced a generation' of practitioners, students, and scholars of development and communication." -Media Asia

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Figures	7
	Acknowledgements	9
	Foreword	12
	Introduction - The Concept of Participation: Transforming Rhetoric to Reality	15
1	Participative Communication as a Part of Building the Participative Society	35
2	Participatory Development Communication: Philosophical Premises	49
3	Modernization and Post-Modernization Approaches to Participatory Communication for Development	60
4	Communication Approaches to Participation and Development: Challenging the Assumptions and Perspectives	76
5	Participatory Development Communication as a Social-Cultural Process	95
6	Participatory Development Communication as a Dialogical Process	117
7	Participatory Development Communication as Cultural Renewal	138
8	A Community-based Learning Approach: Beyond Social Marketing	194
9	Power and Conflict: Hidden Dimensions of Communication, Participative Planning, and Action	229
10	Participatory Decision Making: A Parable	247
11	Participatory Decision Making in Third World Development	259
12	Diffusion Theory and Participatory Decision Making	295
13	Operational Impasses in Knowledge Sharing: Case Study Examples	314
14	Facilitating Communication Within Rural and Marginal Communities: A Model for Development Support	329
15	Participatory Message Development: A Conceptual Framework	345
16	Participatory Message Making with Video: Revelations from Studies in India and the USA	359
17	Kheda: An Experiment in Participatory Communication	387
18	Participatory Rural Newspapers as Agents of Development: A Reciprocal Agenda-Setting Model	400
19	Media Production and the Process of Becoming in the Context of Community Building	420
20	Participatory Communication for Development: How Can We Achieve It?	446
	Notes on Contributors	462
	Index	464

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Competitive Equilibrium: Theory and Applications

Author: Bryan Ellickson

The development of general equilibrium theory represents one of the greatest advances in economic analysis in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book, intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, provides a broad introduction to competitive equilibrium analysis with an emphasis on concrete applications. The coverage is exceptionally broad, including existence of equilibrium, models with a continuum of players, economies with individual commodities, computation of equilibrium, and infinite dimensional space. Well-designed and interesting applications help to make potentially abstract material more accessible.