6. Development Perspectives
• Economic growth: Gross National Product
and Income per capita
• Improvement in Quality of Life: PQLI (Infant
mortality, death rate, life expectancy, literacy
rate)
• Distribution: social-economic-political-
technological-gender Equality
• Liberation from dependency and
exploitation: Human rights and social justice
7. Dev Com Means….
• Not only a nomenclature debate about
DevCom, C4D, M4D, ICT4D….! Not only about
mere behaviour or practice change of the
people, Not mere Monitoring and Evaluation of
outcomes
• BUT also Change in the quality of life of human
societies, Building up communities and helping
them to help themselves, Making a world a
better place to live not only for present but also
for future
8. What is Communication TODAY?
• Technological connectivity does not guarantee
communication as connectivity does not
guarantee interaction
• Interaction does not mean TWO parties
• Two parties does not necessarily mean both are
listening to each other
• Listening does not mean understanding of each
other
• Understanding may not mean acceptance
• Acceptance may not necessarily make CHANGE
9. Paradigms of Development
DOMINANT PARADIGM
• Industry as prime mover
• Modern society needs
specialists
• Education for participation
in governance
• Persuasion with ‘mass
media’ & Diffusion of
innovation
• Tickle down of profits from
Centre to Periphery
ALTERNATE PARADIGM
• Emphasis “participation in
development”
• self-development and
(individual involvement)
self-reliance (local
resources)
• Communication effects
gap (socio-economic &
information/knowledge
Haves’ and Have-nots’)
10. Covid 19: Indian Media is telling
us….
• Number of Cases
• Medicines and Vaccine
• Stay Home
• Migrant Crisis
• Police and Military enforcement
• Economic Impact of Lock Down
• Misinformation and Fake News
14. WHO States: 'there is currently no evidence
that wearing a mask (whether medical or
other types) by healthy persons in the
wider community setting, including
universal community masking, can prevent
them from infection with respiratory
viruses, including COVID-19'.
World Health Organisation
says
16. According to the new Ipsos 15-Nation
Survey on COVID-19, 3 in 4 urban Indians
(76%) are wearing masks to protect
themselves from the deadly COVID-19
virus and pandemic.
SOURCE: https://www.ipsos.com/en-in/
1 April 2020 Coronavirus COVID-19 Public
Opinion Public Health
17. Stay Home Stay Safe
• Census 2001 Household Data: “One third of
rural as well urban houses are ONE ROOM
house and 3.44 % or Urban and 4.44% of rural
houses are used for residence & other use
• Cooperative Societies as new power centres
• Law enforcement agencies making sure you
stay at home
• DAILY DEATHS: by Heart Disease- 26,000
• Fatality of Covid 19 on 10th May is 3.5%
18. Wash Your Hands
• Census 2001 data suggest that Half of the
total Houses have tap water ‘within the
premise’- Rural 34 : Urban 76
• Preconditioned Communication- Assumes
availability of Clean Water, affordability of
Soap or Sanitizer and time to clean hand.
• Assumes you are touching contaminated
surfaces even in your own house
20. ‘Aarogya Setu’ Application
• It is Government of India's mobile application for
contact tracing & dissemination of medical
advisories to contain spread of COVID-19.
• Centre made it mandatory to download the
contact tracing App for all those stepping out or
going to work.
• On May 10, Aarogya Setu app does not access
your data unless you have Covid-19 said NITI
Aayog’s Arnab Kumar.
• Debate about State Surveillance of Citizen
21. Technology Discourse
• Antibiotics DO NOT work against viruses,
antibiotics only work against bacteria.
• Thermal scanners CAN detect if people have a
fever but CANNOT detect whether or not
someone has the coronavirus.
• Online Learning and Work From Home
• Protection gears, disinfectants, sanitizers…….
• Mobile App to trace others around you
22. Surrounding Discourses
• Numbers as only indicator?
• Panic, Fear and Social mistrust!
• Economic Class as divisive factor:)
• Locking down people/Economy to save them
• Accountability of the State public health system
• Suffering of Daily wage earners/Migrants
• What about women, immunity, intelligence of
people to protect themselves?
23. Dev Com & Covid-19
• Uncertainty, Panic, Fear, Confusion……
• Medicalization of human body
• Emotional treatment to the messages
• Lack of trust on people and their ability to
solve their own problems
• Power and its use for pushing technology in
day to day life
• Dominant paradigm in action
25. Thank you for your time &
Attention
Feel free to Connect:
drmiradesai@gmail.com
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
Subject- Media & Communication Studies
Paper- Development Communication