"Aborda la teoría de la comunicación desde el punto de vista filosófico, técnico y sociológico. En sus 11 capítulos desfilan: la necesidad de una teoría crítica de la comunicación, los elementos del proceso, ética y comunicación, comunicaciones y cultura nacional, el tema del tiempo libre
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y de la marginalidad, investiga la "ideología represiva" de McLuhan, la dependencia que se da en América Latina a través de los medios y, por último, subdesarrollo y contaminación cultural." (CELAM-DECOS 1986)
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"In spite of its youth, this is one of the most important publications in the field of communications, and it is the first of its kind. It addresses a broad range of topics in communications, with numerous references to subjects in journalism and mass communication. More than 450 scholars and profes
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sionals contributed to this four-volume collection of signed articles on animal communication, arts, Communications research, computers, education, folklore, government regulation' international communication' journalism, language and linguistics, literature, media, motion pictures, music, nonverbal communication' photography, political communication, print media, radio, religion, speech, television, and communication theories and theorists. This set features more than 550 alphabetically arranged articles, a comprehensive index, topical guide, cross-references and illustrations. Each entry also contains a brief bibliography, listing basic bibliographic information but, unfortunately, no publishers (place of publication, however, is included). In all, 9 editorial board members,25 section editors, and 170 editorial advisers were involved in this project." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 125)
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