"Collection of articles forming a general introduction to the problems of social communications, combining the approaches of specialists in different fields — It surveys the historical development of the mass communication media, their function in our society and gives a more detailed study of the problems concerning their political and financial control, the process of communication which they presuppose, their content, their public and their effects." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2075, topic code 010)