"In a short, perturbed, and self-righteous preface, Oduko writes, "After having continual battles with students for shoddy reporting of their research and professional projects year-in, year-out, I realised that the only way to enforce a permanent ceasefire was to put down in black-and-white a refer
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ence material." Unfortunately, distracting typographical errors also abound in black-and-white in the preface, contents, and listings. The first four chapters focus on research proposals and qualitative and quantitative research methods. Users are advised to skip to chapters 6-11, indexes to communication research studies at Nigerian universities: respectively, Bayero University, Kano (1981-1990); the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1980-1990); the University of Maiduguri (1986-1990); the University of Jos (1980-1990); and the University of Ibadan (1980-1990). Chapter 5 is a subject index of research. Samples of research projects range from "Press Freedom Under Military Regimes in Nigeria from 1966-1988" to "Appraisal of News Reporters' Dressing." In spite of its obvious and distracting drawbacks, this is a very rich source of information on the press in Africa. See also Communication Studies in Africa: A Bibliography (Nairobi, Kenya: African Council for Communication Education, 1994), an unannotated bibliography covering major issues in journalism in Africa from l950 to 1990." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 86)
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"Realizing the immense power of the electronic media, FES started to initiate and support the development of national broadcasting systems and regional exchange networks some 20 years ago. In cooperation with Eurovision, the mother of all television exchange systems, FES helped to establish Asiavisi
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on, Arabvision and Afrovision, thus linking the continents via a global network. In 1987, the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) also asked for assistance. As usual, the Lost Paradise between North and South America had not been high on the agenda. And there was not much hope that these tiny rocks in the Caribbean Sea, scattered over an area the size of Western Europe from the North Cape to Gibraltar, could ever be linked via regional television and included in the global exchange. Still we tried, and we succeeded. This is the story of a very special effort in development aid: "Television in Paradise". (Prologue)
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"This is an international survey of all types of literature on mass communication of the Caribben region presenting 3,695 citations. The book is organized by regions, divided by the nations' ties to a metropolitan power. Countries such as Dominican Republic and Haiti with longer histories of indepen
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dence are listed separately. (The vast reservoirs of data on Cuban mass communication necessitated a separate volume.) Topically, the chapters are divided into possible categories of general studies, advertising, broadcasting, development communication, film, freedom of the press, history of media, journalism education and training, news agencies, popular culture, print media, and telecommunications. Because of the recency of Caribbean mass communication as a field of study, the emphasis in this book is the period from the 1970s to the present. Many works of historical significance, however, are also cited, including nineteenth and early twentieth century works. Overall, the bibliography is representative in covering all genres of publications – books, periodicals, dissertations, theses, and conference papers. Although the bibliography consists mainly of English-language publications, hundreds of citations appear from other languages. The work is complete with a general subject index and author index." (Publisher website)
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