Abstract
nBroadly speaking, development communication/communications and social change (CSC) is about understanding the role played by information, communication, and the media in directed and nondirected social change. This chapter explores critical issues related to the theorizing of CSC and deals with contemporary deficits in the theorizing of CSC. It explores three possible avenues for the reinvigoration of CSC theory: (i) the possibilities for understanding conceptual categories such as participation in and through digital interventions such as the Free and Open Source movement and digital labor; (ii) attempts to understand CSC theory through the lens provided by communication rights movements (the example of the Right to Information movement in India is given in order to explore validation of local processes of participation and Voice through the mechanism of Public Hearings); and (iii) the need for CSC theory to converse with Actor Network Theory linked to a critical political economy of communications.
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