%0 Book Section %1 Bell2021 %A Bell, Nova Gordon %B Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology %C Cham %D 2021 %E Dunn, Hopeton S. %E Moyo, Dumisani %E Lesitaokana, William O. %E Barnabas, Shanade Bianca %I Springer International Publishing %K caribbean disciplinarity internationalization %P 51--73 %R 10.1007/978-3-030-54169-9_4 %T Towards an Integrated Caribbean Paradigm in Communication Thought: Confronting Academic Dependence in Media Research %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54169-9_4 %X Several Jamaican scholars have distinguished themselves in the area of media and communication research. Despite these outstanding achievements, hegemonic notions that present theory as irrelevant to education for a Caribbean `labour force' have hindered the evolution of a distinctive Caribbean paradigm in communication thought. This chapter calls for the need for a more integrated Caribbean paradigm in communication research, analysis and theory building, to counter the still dominant imported content and ideas. It also suggests a `review of the ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions of European and North American media and communication approaches to theory'. The study seeks to move Caribbean people from being mere recipients of knowledge for utilitarian/work purposes to being `active creators of another perspective for understanding human communication and media'. %@ 978-3-030-54169-9

@inbook{Bell2021, abstract = {Several Jamaican scholars have distinguished themselves in the area of media and communication research. Despite these outstanding achievements, hegemonic notions that present theory as irrelevant to education for a Caribbean `labour force' have hindered the evolution of a distinctive Caribbean paradigm in communication thought. This chapter calls for the need for a more integrated Caribbean paradigm in communication research, analysis and theory building, to counter the still dominant imported content and ideas. It also suggests a `review of the ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions of European and North American media and communication approaches to theory'. The study seeks to move Caribbean people from being mere recipients of knowledge for utilitarian/work purposes to being `active creators of another perspective for understanding human communication and media'.}, added-at = {2022-04-18T02:28:10.000+0200}, address = {Cham}, author = {Bell, Nova Gordon}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e465cafadc54f1685f1a67bc19132455/jpooley}, booktitle = {Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology }, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-54169-9_4}, editor = {Dunn, Hopeton S. and Moyo, Dumisani and Lesitaokana, William O. and Barnabas, Shanade Bianca}, interhash = {cf4f538a484a36440e623ebd63e28fe8}, intrahash = {e465cafadc54f1685f1a67bc19132455}, isbn = {978-3-030-54169-9}, keywords = {caribbean disciplinarity internationalization}, pages = {51--73}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, timestamp = {2022-04-18T02:28:10.000+0200}, title = {Towards an Integrated Caribbean Paradigm in Communication Thought: Confronting Academic Dependence in Media Research}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54169-9_4}, year = 2021 }