"UNESCO’s involvement with the books programme started off as general in character, becoming focused in the 1990s on country-specific circumstances, culminating in the publication of the practical guide, The National Book Policy. Numerous actions were initiated and implemented under the programmes
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and include: the elaboration of national policies taking into account the concerns of both the public and private sectors; training; publication of guidelines; and the promotion of the value of reading by initiating activities on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day – activities, which come under the two central themes: Books for All and Towards a Reading Society. The evaluation set out to assess “UNESCO in relation to the book” and thus was concerned with the Organization’s activities (policies, strategies and procedures relating to the production and dissemination capacities in the book and other cultural industries and to the promotion of culture, with special attention given to the sphere of children) during 1990-1997. The World Decade for Cultural Development (1988-1997) was used as a general frame of reference, together with the third Medium-Term Plan (starting in 1990)." (UNESCO website, 02.02.2011)
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"The innovative and rapid growth of communication satellites and computer mediated technologies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, combined with the deregulation of national broadcasting, led many media commentators to assume that the age of national media had been lost. But what has become clear is
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that, whilst there has been a limited growth in global media, there has been an emergence of a strong localised television and communications industry. Mapping the world media market, and using examples of programming from countries as diverse as Thailand, Hong Kong, Brazil, Taiwan, Spain and Britain, this volume explores theories of media globalization, examines the local culture of television programming and analyses the blurring of distinctions between the global and the local." (Publisher description)
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"Este libro constituye una colección de investigaciones y ensayos sobre el papel actual de las industrias de la cultura en América Latina. Los temas abordados incluyen la industria de la música, la transnacionalización de las telenovelas, el mercado editorial, internet, sistemas de información
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y la economía de la cultura. El mundo audiovisual y la fabricación de mercancías simbólicas en general son pensadas desde las tensiones internas de América Latina y sus relaciones con Estados Unidos y Europa. La elaboración de diagnósticos y de políticas culturales abarca los diferentes niveles de las ciudades, los estados y los nuevos acuerdos regionales. El mayor interés de este libro radica justamente en su heterogeneidad. No sólo por la multiplicidad de objetos y temas que aborda vinculados con las industrias culturales y los procesos de "integración" latinoamericanos. También, y fundamentalmente, porque constituye "un estado del debate", de perspectivas a veces sutilmente diferentes para estudiar estos procesos y para elaborar políticas que los direccionen." (reseña de Alejandro Grimson, Revista Punto Cero v.7 n.5 Cochabamba jul. 2002)
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"Industrie culturelle — Industrialisation de l'esprit — Ce qui était création tend à devenir production — En tête de l'industrialisation de l'esprit, les mass media — Le problème de la diffusion suit celui de la production — Atteindre un maximum d'auditeurs, spectateurs, lecteurs —
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Syncrétisme, standardisation, cosmopolitisme en fonction d'un public « moyen »." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1531, topic code 00)
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"L'ouvrage fournit pour 91 Etats et territoires des indications (arrêtées au milieu de l'année 1954) sur les règlements tarifaires et commerciaux qui affectent le mouvement du matériel éducationnel, scientifique ou culturel d'un pays à l'autre." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The
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use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 715, topic code 59)
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