Evolution of Development Communication Paradigms and Alternative Paradigm

Development Communication explores the stages of creating a plan, implementing strategies, and ownership paradigms in development projects. Emphasis is on participatory approaches, community empowerment, and inverting top-down processes. The concept of Alternative Paradigm emerges to counter the alienation of people and seek new models of development for social and economic progress, with examples from China, Tanzania, and Cuba.

• Development Communication
• Paradigms
• Alternative Paradigm
• Community Empowerment
• Participatory Approaches

elsbeth Follow

Uploaded on Jul 22, 2024 | 0 Views

Download Presentation

Please find below an Image/Link to download the presentation.

The content on the website is provided AS IS for your information and personal use only. It may not be sold, licensed, or shared on other websites without obtaining consent from the author. Download presentation by click this link. If you encounter any issues during the download, it is possible that the publisher has removed the file from their server.

Presentation Transcript

1. DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT COMMUNICATION (PPT III) (UNIT 2) Paper: Development Communication Paper: Development Communication Course: BJMC, Semester: II Course: BJMC, Semester: II Institution: DSPMU, Ranchi Institution: DSPMU, Ranchi Teacher s name: Sumedha Chaudhury Teacher s name: Sumedha Chaudhury DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT COMMUNICATION

2. Creating Plan for DSC Creating Plan for DSC Three main stages: 1. Identification of objectives. 2. Analysis of a problem, target audience, situation and sponsor. 3. Formulation of the plan(selection of the suitable methods, timing the camping, using slogans and symbols, pretesting the messages, providing channels for information seeking and involving people).

3. Implementing DSC Participation in implementation of DSC Intrapersonal communication and DSC Role of mass media for DSC

4. Approaches, Ownership and Approaches, Ownership and Paradigms in DSC Paradigms in DSC The participatory approach in DSC Community radio for empowerment and development Community radio creating community ownership Inverting the Top-Down process, creating community ownership (Based on worldwide experience, it was agreed that the first basic necessity would be to find a way of inverting the project-inherent top down process to become a community promoted development process,, carried by a strong community ownership) Dominate development Communication Paradigms

5. Alternative Paradigm (Under the dominant paradigm social and economic development imposed upon the third world countries, resulted in an alienation of people from their original and natural potentials. Consequently the third world countries started thinking for the proper utilization of all their energies, the manpower delineation of human being, restoration of dignity, self-respect and faith in one s own capabilities. This trend led social and economic scientist of the third world to search a new model or paradigm for development that can work proper. Then the idea of alternative paradigm emerged in concept of development. China, Tanzania and Cuba gave this idea on the basis of some international events and issues world oil crisis, realization of third world and relations with China.)

6. ( Alternative Paradigm is based on these points: o It is the strategy of communication which flows from down to top meaning starting from the grass root level. o Use of local natural resources usefully. o Spreading the innovations (new technology) equally to everyone. o Increasing more jobs opportunities in rural areas. o Promotion of idea of cooperation, let s work together . o Equal distribution of wealth, education, technology, health facilities by closing the gap between haves and have-nots. o Make the society homogeneous (social, cultural and economic). o Making small groups of community and giving them tasks to complete. o Focusing on integration of modern system with traditional, social, cultural values (marriage of traditional system with modern one). o Involvement of every person of society in making policies and planning their own system for development and betterment. )