"This case study of Iran focuses on those indicators crucial to an understanding of an evolving communication system. These include environmental factors such as population, geography, history, and legal and social systems; data on national development objectives, resources and technologies; communi
...
cation structures - the press, broadcasting, printing and publishing, film, advertising, telecommunications, theater, tapes and records, libraries and documentation centers, data publication, and storage and retrieval systems; and communication policies for gathering, processing and distributing information. Organized at a time of revolutionary change in Iran, it focuses primarily on the prerevolutionary period and includes only brief references to the major post-revolution developments." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 425)
more
"Detailed information (administration name, technical information, founding date, address) about media intended for use by potential advertisers, but helpful to anyone interested in mass communication. Covers radio and television stations, movie theaters, newspapers, and magazines. Includes data on
...
advertising for large and small cities, state-by-state. Provides information on advertising costs in various media, and statistics on magazine sales, radio listeners, and television viewers. Organized by geographic region, each state has subdivisions by city. For identifying regional newspapers and broadcast media, this directory proves essential. Indexes by municipality and by name of the media." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)
more
"In assembling this bibliographic guide of 712 items the authors' primary aim was to find material which had received little or no attention from researchers writing about the black experience in South Africa and Lesotho. Selection was made in terms of black rather than white readership, and include
...
s newspapers, newsletters and magazines issued serially with a frequency anywhere from daily to annual. Publications are arranged according to subject matter, with each entry containing full title, place of publication, dates, frequency, language, contents, and holdings. In addition to English and Afrikaans nine major African languages are represented, as well as four major Indian languages, and French, Dutch, Portuguese and Arabic. Added features are a section of bibliographies and a history. Index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1703)
more
"A manual intended for the Indian journalist or layman needing quick information on a variety of aspects, but also useful to non-Indians as a guide to the state of the art in India. Along with information about techniques which are similar everywhere Metha also covers those specific to India for mas
...
s communication, print media, broadcasting, audio-visual media, news agencies, advertising, newspaper organization, press and public relations, professional organizations, press council, freedom and law of the press, research, and education. There is also a chronology of development of mass communication in India. Appendixes include a bibliography, commercial broadcasting code, excerpts from Code of Ethics for Advertising, rules for accreditation of news media representatives, procedure for starting newspapers and periodicals, universities/colleges and institutions conducting courses in journalism, and a selected list of Indian periodicals on mass communication." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 295)
more
"As political freedom came to the Continent, so did press freedom disappear," is Barton's opening sentence. Although his attitude is definitely colonial, this statement is not as prejudiced as it first appears, for he attempts to put it in a historical perspective by making the case that this trend
...
in Africa has happened in many non-African countries which today claim some sort of press freedom. Against this background he surveys in breadth rather than depth first the white colonial press and then the emergent black press in French-speaking Africa, East and Central Africa, Portuguese Africa, "the White South," Swaziland, and "unconquered Africa" - Liberia and Ethiopia. He omits Arab Africa because he feels the cultural differences to be too great." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 27)
more
"Unlike more recent books dealing with the press in the Middle East which focus upon the treatment of the Arab Israeli conflict, this one analyzes the news media as institutions, "to see what forms they have taken in the independent Arab states, how the self-governing Arab societies have chosen to c
...
ontrol them, and how they relate to the political processes in the Arab world." The author, counselor for public affaire at the U.S. Embassy, Cairo and an expert on the region, looks in particular at the relationship between the mass media and the government with an eye to the extent of freedom that exists. Countries dealt with are the 18 nation states where Arabic is the official language of the people and the media. Much of the material is based on interviews and Arabic-languages sources. Notes and index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 374)
more
"Communication is defined broadly to include relevant material from such areas as agriculture, anthropology, community development, economics, education, law, political science, population, public administration, sociology, social psychology, and urban studies. Types of material covered are books, p
...
amphlets, conference reports, seminar papers, theses and dissertations, research studies, surveys, government annual reports, commission reports, and periodical materials. Some of these are unpublished." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1635)
more
"The compilers point out that little attention has been paid to mass communication in most Pacific islands, and their research proves them correct. There is one citation each for Easter Island and Midway Island. Hawaii has almost 2,000. This Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East
...
and West bibliography contains citations to 3,332 books, periodicals, articles, documents, and pamphlets, and covers the years 1854-1975, with some entries from 1976. Topics include the press, newspapers, freedom of the press, broadcasting, news agencies, organizations, radio broadcasting, cinema, and television in the Pacific Islands. Entries are arranged alphabetically by more than 20 island groupings and broken down into specific subject areas, rumbered, and arranged chronologically within those subjects. Richstad also produced The Pacific Islands Press: A Directory (East-West Communication Institute, 1973)." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 99)
more
"Asian and Pacific national broadcasting personnel and international communication scholars, trainers, and practitioners contributed to this anthology, which covers the instructional and functional foundations of broadcasting in 44 countries, territories, and dependencies, ranging from Afghanistan o
...
n the periphery of West Asia to the South Pacific islands. All chapters are original except the introductory one, which is reprinted from the 1974 Asian Press and Media Directory, and many are by nationals from the countries described. For the most part topics covered are oriented to historical development, control, ownership and pressures, programming and performance, facilities, financing and advertising, external services, audiences, training, and research. There is a long section on cross-system functions which includes specialized program services and international, regional, and national assistance and cooperation." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 690)
more