Drawing on the pioneering works of Daniel Lerner, Everett Rogers, and Wilbur Schramm as well as his own personal experiences in the field, Emile G. McAnany builds a new, historically cognizant paradigm of communication for development and social change for the future that supplements technology...

Analyzes power relations within the arena of global communications from the inception of the telegraph onward, focusing on the struggle for control of the communications infrastructure that occurred in part because the growing economic power of the United States was hindered by British control...