Communication in the Space Age: The Use of Satellites by the Mass Media
Paris: UNESCO (1968), 200 pp.
Contains tables
Other editions: also published in French
Signature commbox: 70-Technology-F 1968
"The full impact of satellite communication will be realized only when it becomes feasible to spacecast directly into homes, facilitating inexpensive long-distance calls and enabling conferences to be held via telephone and closed-circuit television. Business travel will diminish. Space communication, by increasing the flow of information and its speed of availability and by bypassing the editorial process, can produce a less informed, rather than a better informed, public opinion, and may create tension due to hasty decisions. There will be technical problems of frequency allocation, compatibility of standards, and control of programs and legal problems of copyright and protection against commercial exploitation. Major artistic and political events will be viewed world-wide, simultaneously, reducing parochialism and xenophobia. Communication satellites will aid education, especially in developing countries and facilitate interlibrary exchange of information. They should also create a mutual flow of information between the developed and the developing nations. Information from the latter should cover normal developments in the news, not just crisis situations. An appendix lists participants. This document is based upon papers submitted to the UNESCO meeting of experts on the use of space communication by the mass media (Paris, December 6-10, 1965)." (https://eric.ed.gov)
"This work is based on the reports, based on conditions as they existed in 1965, presented to the meeting of experts in the many subjects concerned in the development of space communications, which took place from 6th to 10th December 1965. Here the experts set out the principles and the main points of a long-term programme to develop the use of space communications for the free circulation of information, the expansion of education and the furthering of cultural exchanges." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1099, topic code 09, 163.20)
1 SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE SPACE AGE
Some possible social effects of space communication / Wilbur Schramm, 11
Prediction, realization and forecast / Arthur C. Clarke, 30
2 THE FLOW OF THE NEWS
Responsible presentation of the news in the space era / Lord Francis-Williams, 41
Telecommunication and the transmission of news / Ivor Ray, 51
3 EDUCATION BY SATELLITES
Possible uses of satellites in education / Henri Dieuzeide, 61
An experiment in educational broadcasting by satellite: the Paris-Wisconsin project, 31 May 1965, 71
4 CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES
Benefits of world exchanges / Aldo Armando Cocca, 77
Transfer of information between libraries / Harry C. Campbell, 83
5 NEW DIMENSIONS FOR RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING
Some legal aspects of television transmission by satellites / Georges C. Straschnov, 93
Telecommunication satellites and the European Broadcasting Union / J. Treeby Dickinson, 101
Extending the range of broadcasting / Valter Feldstein, 106
6 PERSPECTIVE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Achieving a balance between regions / M . M . Khatib, 113
The possible use of communication satellites in Africa / I. O. A. Lasode, 119
Space communication for developing countries: India as an example / V. K. Narayana Menon, 123
7 THE STATE OF THE ART: TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
Technical possibilities for radio and television services by satellites / Leonard Jaffe, 131
Evolution of satellites and orbits / N. I. Tchistiakov, 138
Technical aspects of direct broadcasting / Jean Persin, 147
8 BUILDING AN INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK
The peaceful uses of outer space: role of the United Nations committee in general and concerning space communication in particular. A communication prepared by the United Nations, 155
International co-operation and international control / Hilding Eek, 160
The need for international agreements / Fernand Terrou, 169
9 SUGGESTIONS FOR UNESCO'S PROGRAMME IN SPACE COMMUNICATION
Recommendations of the meeting of experts, 181
A feasibility study of a pilot project using a communications satellite primarily for educational television, 188
Appendix List of participants. Unesco Meeting of Experts on the Use of Space Communication by the Mass Media, Paris, 6 to 10 December 1965, 193
Some possible social effects of space communication / Wilbur Schramm, 11
Prediction, realization and forecast / Arthur C. Clarke, 30
2 THE FLOW OF THE NEWS
Responsible presentation of the news in the space era / Lord Francis-Williams, 41
Telecommunication and the transmission of news / Ivor Ray, 51
3 EDUCATION BY SATELLITES
Possible uses of satellites in education / Henri Dieuzeide, 61
An experiment in educational broadcasting by satellite: the Paris-Wisconsin project, 31 May 1965, 71
4 CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES
Benefits of world exchanges / Aldo Armando Cocca, 77
Transfer of information between libraries / Harry C. Campbell, 83
5 NEW DIMENSIONS FOR RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING
Some legal aspects of television transmission by satellites / Georges C. Straschnov, 93
Telecommunication satellites and the European Broadcasting Union / J. Treeby Dickinson, 101
Extending the range of broadcasting / Valter Feldstein, 106
6 PERSPECTIVE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Achieving a balance between regions / M . M . Khatib, 113
The possible use of communication satellites in Africa / I. O. A. Lasode, 119
Space communication for developing countries: India as an example / V. K. Narayana Menon, 123
7 THE STATE OF THE ART: TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
Technical possibilities for radio and television services by satellites / Leonard Jaffe, 131
Evolution of satellites and orbits / N. I. Tchistiakov, 138
Technical aspects of direct broadcasting / Jean Persin, 147
8 BUILDING AN INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK
The peaceful uses of outer space: role of the United Nations committee in general and concerning space communication in particular. A communication prepared by the United Nations, 155
International co-operation and international control / Hilding Eek, 160
The need for international agreements / Fernand Terrou, 169
9 SUGGESTIONS FOR UNESCO'S PROGRAMME IN SPACE COMMUNICATION
Recommendations of the meeting of experts, 181
A feasibility study of a pilot project using a communications satellite primarily for educational television, 188
Appendix List of participants. Unesco Meeting of Experts on the Use of Space Communication by the Mass Media, Paris, 6 to 10 December 1965, 193
