"Brings together 54 articles on research and policy on communications in the "three worlds" by scholars and policy makers from the U.S., Western Europe, the socialist countries including the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, and the developing world, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America - 25 countri
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es all told. The editors' goal was "not to orchestrate the voices but to select papers that are well-argued and representative of the diversity of opinion on various issues." Thus there are case studies as well as policy statements and critiques. In five parts: "Global Perspectives on Information," "Transnational Communications: The Flow of News and Images," "Telecommunications," "Mass Communications: Development within National Contexts," and "Intergovemmental Systems. " Appendixes include a bibliography, international and intergovernmental events and documents on the subject, acronyms and other terms used, and global satellite systems." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 143)
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"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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"Papers from an international conference held by the Protestant Academy of Arnoldshain (Schmitten, Federal Republic of Germany), the Protestant Association for Media Communication (Frankfurt, FRG) and the World Association for Christian Communication (London), with the common theme that all people a
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re entitled to equal rights of access to information technology. Articles discuss concentration of the media in both state and private hands, with its inevitable result on public opinion as it becomes more and more powerful; the danger that the increasing internationalization of media may prevent democratic control; and a final article, "Advertising and the Creation of Global Markets," contending that the new information technologies are creating an infrastructure that is making the 20th century "information age" a "commercial age" at a global level." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 29)
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"Essays on the political economy of information which show how the management of complex new technological sources dramatically alter the nature of international business, adding a new dimension to trade and posing increased difficulties to developing countries. Authors analyzing the problem and sug
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gesting possible remedies are from South America, Europe and the U.S.A." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 325)
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"Lent states as his purpose to " 1) concisely background the issues and form of the debate in its evolution during the past decade and a half; 2) briefly critique the literature of the controversy; 3) provide a comprehensive bibliography of books, monographs, documents and periodicals that deal with
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the issue; and 4) list the major conferences, symposia and meetings on any aspect of the debate up to 1980." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 247)
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"Much of the writings about the New World Information Order (NWIO) is heated, with rhetoric by the Western industrialized nations and the Third World countries governed by their differing viewpoints in the context of their disparate pasts and conflicting philosophies. McPhail approaches the debate w
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ith delicate balance, discussing the objectives of the NWIO, freedom of the press, media and development research traditions (which he calls "a misguided start"), the role of UNESCO, International Telecommunications Union and the World Administration Radio Conference, wire service, DBS and related international issues, and the MacBride Report. An appendix charts the ideological alignments of developing countries in terms of "radical," "conservative" or "independent" political orientations. A second appendix contains the text of the "Draft Declaration on Fundamental Principles Concerning the Contribution of the Mass Media in Strengthening Peace and International Understanding, the Promotion of Human Rights, and to Countering Racialism, Apartheid and Incitement to War." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 716)
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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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