Special Issue on Media and Communication in Development and Social Change: A Tribute to Joseph Ascroft (Volume 29, No. 02, December 2019)

Guest Editor: Dr. Srinivas Melkote, Professor, School of Media and Communication, Bowling Green, State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA

Development communication, as an area of scholarship and practice, has been engaged in finding a niche for media and communication in the efforts to tackle the problems of underdevelopment and marginalization of people and communities worldwide. What should be the mission of the field of development communication in critical social change? What are the different ways in which media and communication have been used in projects tailored to specific development outcomes? What are the lessons learnt?

This special issue of Asia Pacific Media Educator will be dedicated to the memory of Prof. Joseph Ascroft, University of Iowa, USA, an early pioneer in the use of media and communication as a support for development. Submissions are welcome from media professionals, scholars, and educators from all regions within the context of social change and development. Selected papers will attempt any of these objectives: document, study, analyze, construct, and deconstruct the role and place of development communication and media scholarship in the process of directed social change.

The submission guidelines are here:  https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/asia-pacific-media-educator#submission-guidelines

Please submit 250-word abstract to the Guest Editor at: melkote@bgsu.edu by January 31, 2019.

Submission deadline of complete paper for peer review: April 30, 2019.

Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to the journal administrator at https://peerreview.sagepub.com/ame