Providing content and facilitating social change: Electronic media in rural development based on case material from Peru

First Monday ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Van Koert
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Case Material

E-media in development: Combining multiple e-media types (originally published in February 2003)

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Koert
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Case Material ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Traffic Pattern ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Media Types ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Radio

This paper, on electronic media's potential contribution to rural development in less-industrialized countries, builds on the content of two earlier First Monday papers: "The Impact of Democratic Deficits on Electronic Media in Rural Development" (April 2002) and "Providing Content and Facilitating Social Change: Electronic Media in Rural Development" (February 2000). The former provides a theoretical argumentation on the influence of democratic deficits on the role of E-media in rural development, supported by case material, whereas the latter presents case material from Peru on how the different types of E-media contribute to rural development in that country. This paper also introduced the "information traffic pattern (ITP)" and "media richness" concepts. The February 2000 paper ends with the conclusion that combinations of different types of E-media are more likely to be successful in contributing to rural development than the isolated use of a single E-media type. Recently, this approach of combining multiple E-media types has been labeled "mixing media" in a paper by Bruce Girard (2002) and the approach is also being used for the "Radio Reed Flute" initiative in Afghanistan, started by Bruce Girard and Jo van der Spek. In this paper, the case for the multiple E-media approach will be made from the perspective of a need for multiple information traffic patterns, a concept introduced and elaborated in the two previous First Monday papers. Based on this theoretical argumentation, the paper will provide suggestions for ways forward for the use of E-media in rural development in less-industrialized countries. Two of the main suggestions are to use existing local radio station as "anchors" in prospective E-media projects in rural development and to establish partnerships between local radio stations and local development NGOs, the latter aimed at stimulating the collection and dissemination of locally generated information.

Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan. By Laurel Bossen. [Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 391 pp. Hard cover $80.00, ISBN 0-7425-1107-3; paperback $29.95, ISBN 0-7425-1108-1.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
Elisabeth J. Croll
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Hard Cover

This study constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of women, gender and rural development within and beyond China. Examining 60 years of economic, political and social change in one village in Yunnan province, this book has both depth and breadth. Research in Lu village, also the site of Fei Xiao-tong's very fine field study conducted in the 1940s and reported in Earthbound China, enables the author to examine how larger concepts and abstractions such as Chinese culture, communist planning and market-driven reforms shape and are shaped by gender definitions and relations in everyday practice.

First be a woman? rural development, social change and women farmers’ lives in Thessaly-Greece

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysanthi Charatsari ◽  
Afroditi Papadaki-Klavdianou
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Women Farmers

Amul India: A Social Development Enterprise

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 293-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish Chawla
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Dairy Farmer ◽  
Quality Of Leadership ◽  
Farmer Management

Amul initiated as an experiment in two villages, collecting 250 kg of milk per day. As the cooperative expanded its branches over the course of its 50-year journey, Amul boasts of more than six million kilograms of milk collection daily. What had initiated as a process of liberation from the Dairy King, brought a revolutionary transformation across the country. This case provides a vivid example of how a cooperative can become the catalyst for social change and rural development. This case takes us through the journey of Amul, from its dawn period when it was attempting to take root, through its progression along the enterprise life stages and the associated challenges. Insights into the quality of leadership and the farmer/management relationships are its defining characteristic. The Amul Model narrowed the gap between the producer and the consumer, connecting the dairy farmer to the consumer through its organic network. The success of this model ignited interest across India, where this model was replicated, in essence leading to the White Revolution. The case provides sufficient insights and learnings to develop a framework to comprehend the basic essence of a prosperous social enterprise — factors that make it successful. It is this learning that this case desires to impart to its readership, enhancing interest in this rather lively subject of social enterprises.

scholarly journals Social Engineering and Rural Development: How Society Participation through Financial Management and Village Potential [Rekayasa Sosial dan Pengembangan Pedesaan: Bagaimana Partisipasi Masyarakat Melalui Pengelolaan Keuangan dan Potensi Desa]

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Joko Hadi Susilo ◽  
Maulana Ghani Yusuf ◽  
Ryan Basith Fasih Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Management And Development

The purpose of this study is to determine community participation as a principle of good governance in implementing social change and rural development through village financial management and village potential. This research method uses a qualitative approach by observing and collecting primary data in the form of interviews with the community. The results of the study show that community participation in carrying out social change and rural development through village financial management is still not well implemented, it is because the existence of a fundamental problem from the community lies in the lack of knowledge regarding village regulations and policies. Whereas community participation through the management of village potential can be well implemented, due to mutual cooperation that has become a culture of the community. Social change needs to be done in increasing the potential and development of the village and there needs to be government intervention in facilitating and mentoring directed at the problems that exist in the community in conducting village management and development 

Individualism, Community, and Cooperatives in the Development Thinking of the Union Soudanaise-RDA, 1946–1960

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica M. van Beusekom
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
French Soudan ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

Abstract:In the late 1940s and 1950s, nationalists and colonial officials in French Soudan (Mali) shared a language of development centered on the concepts of tradition, modernity, community, and individualism. This shared language permitted collaboration but also masked important differences in nationalist and colonial analyses of social change and the direction of rural development. Particular areas of contention were social evolutionary models of change, the likelihood of rising individualism, and the potential of communitarian development. The patterns of interaction in this debate reveal that intellectual exchanges between and among officials and nationalists were multidirectional and characterized not by borrowing but by exchange, adaptation, and reformulation.

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