"The authors analyze Disney's comic "to reveal the scowl of capitalist ideology behind the laughing mask, the iron fist beneath the Mouse's glove." This has become a classic in Third World countries, especially in Latin America, where it is regarded as a touchstone for the interpretation of American
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media. The authors have included a lengthy bibliography of additional Marxist studies on the two principal themes they treat in Donald Duck - cultural imperialism and the comic book." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 110)
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"The title indicates the scope of this excellent history of the war correspondent, including photographers, as Knightley traces him (and a few hers) from the beginning of this type of journalism in the Crimes in the 1850s to the war in Vietnam over a century later. In between he covers various wars,
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little and big, in various parts of the world. He describes not only the correspondents but also the political and ideological climate that produced and set the course of the particular war, and analyzes the media coverage. This is useful not only for research and reference, but also as history. In addition it makes fascinating reading, although some parts are true horror stories which can be hard to take. There are 12 pages giving numerous sources, a bibliography and an index. The 1982 edition omits two chapters in the 1975 edition on the Boer War and on Algeria." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 235)
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"An introduction to the practice of overseas broadcasting as propaganda and the various ideological philosophies back of it, in terms both of sender and receiver. Analysis centers around Nazi Germany, the Communist countries, the U.S.'s Voice of America, Britain's BBC, and the undeveloped parts of t
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he world. A large section is devoted to factors affecting success or failure. Appendixes give a table of radio sets and ownership around the world in 1973; external broadcasting statistics in 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1973; extracts from internal Policy Guidelines of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty; and extracts from a BBC unpublished monitoring report." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 641)
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"The first part of this study made at the University of Tampere is an international inventory of the composition of TV programs, particularly from the point of view of material imported to a country from outside, and a survey of the international networks for sale and exchange of program material fo
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r TV. Included are numerous tables, charts, and graphs. The second part is the essence of a symposium held at the University of Tampere which comments upon the hard facts contained in the study." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 734)
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"Foreign programmes of 13 radio stations broadcasting daily to Yugoslavia were chosen in order to test the initial hypothesis of ideological determination of external radio propaganda, which was operationalized by a set of subhypotheses. There are, in fact, 15 foreign broadcasting stations in 14 cou
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ntries regularly beaming their daily programmes to Yugoslavia in the languages of the Yugoslav nations, but two of them were not included in the analysis because of monitoring difficulties (Radio Madrid) and because the content was too specific (Radio Vatican). The week between Sunday, 9 September and Saturday, 15 September 1973 was chosen for the content analysis of 13 foreign radio programmes in the Serbo-Croat language, a total amount of 7,700 minutes. In addition, External Services of Radio Belgrade (Yugoslavia) were included in the analysis in order to compare foreign programmes with the Yugoslav ones. The findings of this empirical research confirm the significance of the ideological dimension of propaganda, which stood out in the sample of radio propaganda stations as a particular factor having the largest discriminatory power (the “ideological factor” explained the largest part of common variance in the five-dimensional factor space). The frequency of appearance of symbols, the fact that they either appear or do not, and particularly their explicit evaluation in the analysed messages, are those basic characteristics of propaganda which make it possible to distinguish clearly between various sorts of propaganda on the basis of its value and prescriptive orientation. The results indicate a class-ideological determination of foreign radio programmes, in which the stations of the socialist countries do not coincide with the evaluative orientation of Radio Belgrade, as representative of the Yugoslav media. The analysis revealed five typical clusters of broadcasting stations, three generated by western and two by eastern stations: (1) Moscow and Sofia, (2) Peking and Tirana, (3) Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandfunk, (4) BBC, Paris, and Voice of America, (5) Athens and Voice of Turkey." (Conclusion, page 48)
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"One of Marshall McLuhan's outstanding contributions has been to bring into prominence the works of the late Canadian economist, Harold Innis, whose early insights into the importance of media to economics and culture have become increasingly pertinent. His thesis is that the communications systems
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of empires have influenced their rise and fall. In 'Empire and Communication' he discusses the possibility, with emphasis on economics, that communication may occupy a crucial position in the organization and administration of government and in turn of empires and of Western civilization." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 203)
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"A meticulous and well-organized source, this international bibliography has withstood the ravages of time. It now serves as a useful historical guide to international news from the early 1900s to the beginning of World War II. Documents, books, pamphlets, magazines articles, and studies are include
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d in sections labeled either "International News" or "Foreign Press," and then arranged in chapters such as "Washington Correspondence," "Foreign Correspondence," "Censorship," "Press Law," "News Gathering Organizations," and "Press and Public Opinion." Descriptively annotated entries are listed alphabetically by author. Foreign press entries are arranged geographically by continent, then country. There is only an author index; fortunately the table of contents is detailed." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 82)
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"Transmitting World News investigates the system of rates and priorities as well as other technical factors affecting the dispatch of press messages. Although Williams discusses the physical means of news transmission, he goes beyond this to show the human elements: the competence, integrity, and ju
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dgment of those who collect and distribute news, and the readiness of governments and peoples to allow or forbid objective reporting. He also takes cost factors and availability of newsprint into account." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 455)
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"Report of a seminar which explored the manner in which African news is presented by the European press. In two parts: "The Mass Media in Africa" and "Reporting Africa by the International Mass Media." In the first part, emphasis is on the English-speaking African nations - Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria
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- although there are chapters on the African mass media as institutions of African political systems, and on the freedoms and functions of mass communications in Africa. The second part deals with the way selected European nations present African news, with a chapter each on the British, French, and North American mass media, a single chapter on the Soviet and Czechoslovak presses, and four chapters on Scandinavian broadcasting systems, including Finnish. Part II also contains sections on the problem of cultural translation in the reporting of African social realities, and other problems confronting correspondents specializing in Africa." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 419)
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"Les activités du Service des Emissions Mondiales — Information belge à destination de l'Afrique — Programmes des émissions de la « Voix de l'Amitié «." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1485, topic code
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222)
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"La diffusion de l'information publique est assurée en Belgique par des organismes autonomes et par des services ministériels spécialisés — Au rang des premiers, on relève le Commissariat Général au Tourisme, la Radio-Télévision Belge et l'Institut Belge d'Information et de Documentation
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— Celui-ci, créé des cendres d'Inforcongo, a pour tâche de faire connaître la Belgique à l'étranger et d'organiser, sur le plan national, des campagnes d'information et d'éducation — Il satisfait en cela à la demande du secteur privé et public, pour autant qu'il s'agisse d'informations non commerciales — L'Institut Belge d'Information et de Documentation organise, par ailleurs, des stages de techniques d'information au profit des ressortissants des pays en voie de développement — Il contribue à la coordination interdépartementale de l'information extérieure afin de grouper les efforts longtemps dispersés des services publics — Les départements ministériels sont dotés soit de services d'information, de documentation ou de renseignements, soit de bureaux de presse. Traduction anglaise aux pages 67-69." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2361, topic code 163.22)
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