"Rebel Radio is the story of Radio Venceremos, one of the stations operated by guerillas during the decade-long civil war in El Salvador. It is told through the experiences of the men and women who worked for the station. As such, it is not just about radio, but about the daily lives of the guerilla
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s in the mountains of Morazán. It would make a great novel, but everything in this book actually happened. Originally published in Spanish in 1991, the book comes with eleven black and white photos and two maps. If you ever wondered what motivates people to operate radio stations in conditions of extreme danger, this book is for you." (Radio Netherlands Media Network 1996)
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"This book explores the rapidly evolving conditions of political communication in China. It examines how ideology and professional roles affect both scholarly and journalistic understanding of China. The book offers insights into Chinese journalism and Sino-American relations." (Publisher descriptio
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"The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting? Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the changing role of Soviet journalism from its
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theoretical origins in the writings of Marx and Lenin to the new freedoms of the Gorbachev era. The book includes detailed analysis of contemporary Soviet media output, as well as interviews with Soviet journalists." (Publisher description)
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"An examination of the mass media available in Soviet Russia and of attitudes toward the various ones. Although the author was somewhat hampered because partisan and political subjects were not considered appropriate for opinion surveys, she was nevertheless able to learn not only about media exposu
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re and use by the general public but also within different groups - for example, migrants and super-activists." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 297)
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"The aim of this booklet is not only to inform; we tried in the first place to give a journalistic view of a country, that only some decades ego was a backward feudal country and by now is able to regard with satisfaction the remarkable results of its socialist construction," explains the editor. Tw
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enty seven of its 44 pages are devoted to this transformation of Mongolia, followed by brief summaries of the role of the various media. Useful in spite of the scarcity of information because so little exists on mass communications in Mongolia." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 316)
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"An analysis of the mass media in South Africa as instruments of oppression or liberation and their role in effecting change or perpetuating the status quo. Chimutengwende examines the operation of the press within the South African socio-economic and legislative system and in relation to the blacks
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' struggle for liberation, ending with conclusions as the role of the press in affecting change or maintaining the status quo. For the latter he has drawn heavily on communication theory. This is a measured and well-reasoned study that challenges some Western concepts of freedom of the press. Emphasis is on print media." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 66)
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"Robinson discusses the development and operation of the press and broadcasting, against the background of the sociopolitical factors that have shaped this multinational, multilingual Communist state. She details the history of communications from 1945 to 1975; analyzes the national news agency, Tan
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jug; examines the way in which characteristic news values have evolved; and describes the role of the media in nation-building in a country with widely diverse ethnic groups. In conclusion she explores the composition of readers, listeners, and viewers. Appendixes give the journalism code, the content of three geographical foreign policy registers (1964), and a comparison of overlapping subject master in Tanjug and the Associated Press." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 361)
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"The expansion of the radio service as an instrument of mobilisation in preference to the other media results from three factors: Mao-Tse-Tung's concept of the role of the mass media, modernisation and the political factor." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the dev
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eloping countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1314, topic code 072.1)
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"The wall poster used by the Chinese Communists as a medium of mass persuasion was assigned a new and radically different function by Mao Tse-tung." (Abstract)
"The communication media in the Ivory Coast (a former French colony) are dominated by the President in an authoritarian tradition — There is only one daily and the radio is still the main source of information for the majority of the people." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of m
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ass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 976, topic code 110.1, 110.32)
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"Les conditions de travail du correspondant étranger à Pékin — Rapports avec les autorités — Les sources d'information disponibles — Portrait de la presse chinoise." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 129
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, topic code 19)
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"The present article attempts to show the close links between the development of the film industry and the industrialisation of Communist China, where the film is used as an agent of modernisation — This is also proof of the importance accorded to mass communications in China's national developmen
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t — Communist China regards radio and the cinema above all as of capital importance as audio-visual aids." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1315, topic code 310.1)
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"The strongly liberal elements of the government of Kenya mean that the regime combines the characteristics of a ‘democracy’ and a ‘dictatorship’. The case of Kenya is an interesting one as regards the development of the communication media: Kenya has communication media but no public to use
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the media and to form a public opinion. The problems facing Kenya (poverty and illiteracy) make it impossible to study the actual situation regarding the freedom of the press at present." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 977, topic code 110.1, 110.32)
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"L'impuissance de la presse d'Etat à parti unique — Le cas de pays africains à parti unique — Dans un Etat à parti unique, la presse constitue une arme dangereuse détenue par la clique restreinte qui constitue le moyen du parti." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass med
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ia in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 751, topic code 110.32)
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