This volume posits the existence of a gap between theory and practice in rural-development efforts involving communication media and provides suggestions for integrating the efforts of theoreticians and practitioners. Chapter one briefly reviews the development of theoretical concepts about the nature of communication and the use of communication…

The New Rural Society (NRS) project is federally funded to apply telecommunications technology to ease the plight of the cities by upgrading life in rural communities. The resulting voluntary decentralization of people, business, and government, will, it is hoped, create the necessary conditions to bring the urban and energy crises under control.…