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The Two Faces of Chinese Communication
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 273-282
"In this chapter, Guo-Ming Chen portrays two faces of communication in Chinese culture. He thematizes harmony, one of the core Chinese cultural values, to paint a picture of the first face. According to him, in order to achieve harmony, Chinese people would (1) follow the principles of jen (benevole
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Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 467-479
"According to Dissanayake, the Sarvodaya movement encompasses the ideal of the harmonious social order and the principle of self-reliance and self-transformation as envisioned and encouraged by Buddhist teaching. The Sarvodaya movement also duly asserts that the idea of development should include no
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Provincializing Hegemonic Histories of Media and Communication Studies: Toward a Genealogy of Epistemic Resistance in Africa
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 415-434
"In the late 1990s and 2000s, a number of calls were made by scholars to "internationalize" or "dewesternize" the field of media and communication studies. I argue that these approaches have indirectly silenced a much longer disciplinary history outside "the West" that has not only produced empirica
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Theorizing About Communication in India: Sadharanikaran, Rasa, and Other Tradtions in Rhetorics and Aesthetics
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians, Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 160-178
Nommo, Kawaida, and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good Into the World
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 211-225
"In this chapter, Maulana Karenga explores ancient and ongoing African traditions of communicative practice in understanding African American rhetoric. For Karenga, African rhetoric is essentially the communicative practice that is oriented to building community and bringing good into the world, whi
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The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), xiii, 586 pp.
"The collection covers a wide range of topics: the emergence and evolution of the field; issues and challenges in cross-cultural and intercultural inquiry; cultural wisdom and communication practices in context; identity and intercultural competence in a multicultural society; the effects of globali
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Media Development with Chinese Characteristics
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.
"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and
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De-Westernizing Communication Studies: A Reassessment
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 361-372
"The goal of this special issue is to revisit the terms of the debate about the "de-westernization" of communication studies and related issues such as the globalization, internationalization, cosmopolitanism, and indigenization of academic knowledge." (Abstract)
Sentipensamientos: De la comunicación-desarrollo a la comunicación para el vivir bién
Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar (UASB); Ediciones La Tierra (2014), 190 pp.
"Este libro demuestra cómo desde su cosmovisión —que entiende la espléndida existencia en la armonía de los hombres consigo mismos, en sociedad y con la naturaleza—, el suma qamaña/sumak kausay es una propuesta profundamente comunicacional sustentada en valores y prácticas comunitarias com
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Cultures of Memory in South Asia: Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance
New Delhi: Springer (2014), xvi, 336 pp.
"Culture of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European “textual” inheritances. The main a
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Communication and Cultural Settings: An Islamic Perspective
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 237-247
"In this chaper, Hamid Mowlana elucidates four cardinal concepts of the Islamic worldview that may serve as the fundamental principles of ethical communication in Muslim societies: (1) tawhid (unity, coherence, and harmony of all in the universe), (2) amr bi al-ma'ruf wa nahy'an al munkar (commandin
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Toward a Theory of African Communication
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians, Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 146-159
Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition
New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xiv, 334 pp.
"This is the first collection to de-Westernize the scholarship on women, politics and media by: 1) highlighting the latest research on countries and regions that have not been ‘the usual suspects’; 2) featuring a diverse group of scholars, many of non-Western origin; 3) giving voice through pers
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Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2014), 144 pp.
Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), xiii, 325 pp.
Philosophy Manual: A South-South Perspective
Paris; Rabat: UNESCO (2014), 243 pp.
Exploring the Diegesis of the Haridasi Kirtan: A Critical Study
Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2013), pp. 22-32
"It is argued that to identify an Indian theory of communication Rasa and Dhvani experience must be studied in multimedia and multicultural contexts of the contemporary media universe and that such a theory shall emerge better from an in depth study of Indian folk media. The study explores the world
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Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), viii, 371 pp.
Cinema and Development in West Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xiv, 222 pp.
"Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African ident
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Multiple Modernities and Mass Communications in Muslim Countries
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 243-268
"This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers
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