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Information Technology and a New International Order

Lund; Bromley, Kent: Studentlitteratur AB;Chartwell-Bratt (1984), 141 pp.

ISBN 91-44-20611-9; 0-86238-043-X

"Papers from an international conference held by the Protestant Academy of Arnoldshain (Schmitten, Federal Republic of Germany), the Protestant Association for Media Communication (Frankfurt, FRG) and the World Association for Christian Communication (London), with the common theme that all people are entitled to equal rights of access to information technology. Articles discuss concentration of the media in both state and private hands, with its inevitable result on public opinion as it becomes more and more powerful; the danger that the increasing internationalization of media may prevent democratic control; and a final article, "Advertising and the Creation of Global Markets," contending that the new information technologies are creating an infrastructure that is making the 20th century "information age" a "commercial age" at a global level." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 29)
Information Technologies and the North-South Conflict / Helga Schuchardt, 15
New Information Technologies and International Politics in the 1980s / Jörg Becker, 24
Information Technology and International Relations: Perspectives for South and North / Cees J. Hamelink, 41
The Microelectronics Revolution: Implications for the Third World / Juan F. Rada, 53
Microelectronics, Innovations and New International Information Order / Enrique Gonzalez Manet, 84
Communication Satellites: a Third-World Perspective / Neville D. Jayaweera, 106
Advertising and the Creation of Global Markets: the Role of the New Communication Technologies / Noreene Janu, 127