Developing the Third World: A Communication Approach

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

HEALTHCOM: a communication methodology for health in the Third World

Health communication is a health education approach which attempts to change a set of behaviors in a large-scale target audience regarding a specific problem in a predefined period of time. Communication for Child Survival, or HEALTHCOh.1, is a world-wide research and development project grounded in the theory of health communication. The HEALTHCOhl Project relies on social marketing, behavior ...

A Third World Perspective

Children's asthma and the third world: an approach.

BACKGROUND More than a million visits/year characterize acute asthma morbidity at Venezuela's (24 million inhabitants) Ministry of Health ambulatory services, caring for 80% or more of the population; acute morbidity from asthma is second to "viral syndrome" but ahead of diarrhea and other diseases. These acute episodes are the only contact of a poor asthmatic child with this health care system...

Developing 'Third Space' Interculturality Using Computer-Mediated Communication

The ‘third space’ (Bhabha, 1994) is a way of re-imagining the traditional teacher-student hierarchical relationship. This practitioner research study uses computer-mediated discourse analysis (Herring, 1996) to investigate the potential of email to facilitate such ‘third space’ communication. It is based on 279 emails exchanged between 10 international ESL students and their lecturer at an Aust...