Dr. Jan Servaes

Communication for development and social change; participatory communication research; knowledge societies and sustainable development; international communication policies; globalization and culture.

Education

Ph.D., Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 1987
M.A., Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 1975
B.A., Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 1973

Background

Jan Servaes is Professor and Editor-in-Chief of Telematics and Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies (Elsevier), Editor-in-Chief of Communication for Development and Social Change: A Global Journal (Hampton Press), Editor of the Southbound Book Series ‘Communication for Development and Social Change’, and Editor of the Hampton Book Series ‘Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity’. He chaired the Scientific Committee for the World Congress on Communication for Development (Rome, 25-27 October 2006), organized by the World Bank, FAO and the Communication Initiative.

Servaes has taught International Communication and Development Communication in Australia (Brisbane), Belgium (Brussels and Antwerp), the USA (Cornell), The Netherlands (Nijmegen), and Thailand (Thammasat, Bangkok).

He has been President of the European Consortium For Communications Research (now European Communication Research and Education Association) and Vice-President of the International Association of Media and Communication Research, in charge of Academic Publications and Research, from 2000 to 2004.

Servaes has undertaken research, development, and advisory work around the world and is known as the author of journal articles and books on such topics as international and development communication; ICT & media policies; intercultural communication and language; participation and social change; and human rights and conflict management. Read more about Dr. Jan Servaes...

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Books

Some of his most recent book titles include:

Servaes, J. (2008). Communication for development and social change. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage.

Servaes, J., & Liu, S. (Eds.). (2007). Moving targets: Mapping the paths between communication, technology and social change in communities. Penang: Southbound.

Thomas, P., & Servaes, J. (Eds.). (2006). Intellectual property rights and communications in Asia. New Delhi: Sage.

Servaes, J., & Carpentier, N. (Eds.). (2006). Towards a sustainable European Information Society. Bristol: ECCR Book Series, Intellect.

Shi, -xu, Kienpointer, M., & Servaes, J. (Eds.). (2005). Read the cultural Other: Forms of Otherness in the discourses of Hong Kong’s Decolonisation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Servaes, J. (Ed.). (2003). The European Information Society: A reality check. Bristol: ECCR Book Series, Intellect.

Servaes, J. (Ed.). (2003). Approaches to development. Studies on communication for development. Paris: UNESCO Publishing House.

Servaes, J. (2002). Communication for development: One world, multiple cultures. Cresskill: Hampton Press (Foreword by Jan Pronk).

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