"Katharina Nötzold explores whether and how mass media can contribute to nation-building after civil war. Drawing on the example of Lebanon s audiovisual media organisations, which are mostly privately owned by politicians, she demonstrates how political elites use television to transmit their visi ... ons of post-war society. Lebanon's nation-building process from 1990 to 2005 was characterized by Syrian dominance over political life. From an extensive content analysis of Lebanese news and interviews with analysts, journalists and managers from all Lebanese TV stations, it emerges that political information on television focused more on divisive experiences than cohesive ones. This has underpinned continued sectarianism in Lebanon, in the media as in society at large, and has impeded nation-building." (Publisher description) more

"A collection of more than 50 articles by well-known specialists in the field of social sciences — The articles are grouped under the following heading: — 1. Theory of public opinion; 2. Formation of public opinion; 3. Effect of public opinion on politics; 4. Theory of communication; 5. The mean ... s of communication: structure and control; 6. Control of communications; 7. The different publics; 8. The effects of communication; 9. Public opinion, communication and democratic aims; 10. Methods of research into public opinion — At the end of the book these are bibliogaphies referring to each section." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 246, topic code 030) more