De Gruyter Handbook of Media and Social Change in the Global South

The birth of newspapers, radio and television in the 19th century brought various interconnected social, behavioural and cultural changes in the lives of the coloniser and the colonised in the economically ‘developing’ nations. Then in the 20th century and now the 21st century, the birth of digital media for political, social, cultural, and economic communications has witnessed divergent results in the West and the non-Western countries.

The Global South is currently facing digital divides and issues related to media illiteracy that tend to impact people’s lives more than those in the North. Furthermore, a significant shift in online and offline communicative behaviour has had various effects on the way the young and the old, male and female, the haves and the have-nots interact in the media space.

This handbook brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors from the Global South and the diaspora to document, examine, expose and critically assess the nature, role and impact of the social changes brought by the emergence of the mediated forms of communication in the Global South. This remarkable volume is a must-have resource for anyone interested in communication and social change, and development and social change in the Global South.