Emile G. McAnany

Since the 1960s, Emile McAnany has been researching the social and cultural impacts of communication technologies in Latin American countries and especially in Brazil. His works and publications have made him a leader among development communication, an area that uses information technology and communication as a foundation for change and social entrepreneurship; which in other words emphasizes the role of communication in the promotion and dissemination of values, stimulating the participation of society in projects of change, allowing the exercise of citizenship and entrepreneurship. The participation of McAnany and his contributions to the theoretical construction of this discipline, fundamental to the demands of the third millennium, are facts that justify the publication and the knowledge, by the reader, of this immense legacy.