"Because data is the raw-stuff of information, and information is of primary importance in national development, the free flow of data becomes increasingly necessary for social development. In 'Transnational Data Flows in the Information Age' Hamelink looks closely at its worldwide distribution and
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finds, not surprisingly, that data, along with the accompanying social benefits resulting from technological information "normally do not befall the poor majority of the Third World." He enumerates the situation in detail, discussing the information age, telematics, transnational corporations and transnational data flows, the impact and disparities in the telematics, data regulation, and consideration of policy. Although emphasis is on the Third World, the background is of necessity general, including Western Europe and the U.S." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 175)
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"A symposium in which participants and individual speakers addressed ideological and empirical approaches to national development, international perceptions, global news flow, and education from a mass communication perspective. Presentations reflected a wide range of sometimes conflicting views on
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the issues. Speakers, representing a number of countries, included Joseph Ashcroft, Jeremy Tunstall, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Sylvanus Edwelie, Hanno Hardt, Reda M. Khalifa, Jasper Hsu, Chin-Chuan Lee, Georgina R. Encanto, and the editors. References, author index, and subject index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 17)
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"A quantitative content analysis in which Schramm and Atwood focus on the flow of news into and out of the Third World, with emphasis on the four Western news agencies - Reuter, the Associated Press, United Press International, and Agence France Presse. Part of the project measures quantity of news,
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part quality. Appendixes give basic data. In conclusion is a list of references used." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 390)
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"The major conclusion is that information flows are far more strongly influenced and oriented first by historical and cultural links, including those remaining from colonial times, then by ideological affinities and lastly by community of interests, than they are by geographical proximity. This is n
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o surprise but may at first sight appear unfortunate, Less than twenty per cent of the news space in the South Americar, dailies, for example, is given over to Latin America, and the Senegalese press shows greater interest in a minor ministerial reshuffle in France or the Federal Republic of Germany than in an election taking place in the Gambia or the Ivory Coast." (Introduction)
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"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 communicatio
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n, 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)
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"This publication deals with the meeting convened by Unesco at Bangkok, 18-29 January 1960, to draw up a programme for the development of information media in South East Asia. The meeting was attended by representatives of Member States of Unesco, mass media experts of the region and observers from
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international organizations -about 120 participants in all. The Bangkok meeting forms part of a world survey which Unesco is conducting at the request of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Similar meetings are expected tobe held for Latin America at Santiago de Chile in 1961 and for Africa at Addis Ababa in 1962. The survey is intended to enable the United Nations to evaluate the resources needed to help the underdeveloped countries to build up their information media. The present publication contains the inaugural speech by the Director-General of Unesco at the Bangkok meeting, followed by the report adopted by the meeting and by papers submitted to it by various specialists in the mass communication field. These papers are grouped according to the four main subjects coveredby the meeting, namely: (i) newspapers and periodicals / (ii) news agencies and telecommunications / (iii) radio broadcasting, film and television / (iv) training in journalism and mass communication research." (Foreword)
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