Studies the legal, economic, cultural and political implications of trans-border television, focusing on Japan, the Philippines, India, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
"Leading contributors offer a range of perspectives on the relationship between the process of globalization and international communication. Individual chapters examine the impact of market relations, deregulation and technology of Third World countries, as well as the ethics of the global communic
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ations industry." (Publisher description)
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"Scholars from various countries of the socialist and capitalist - the developing and developed - world, and representing many of the disparate areas that make up the interdisciplinary field of communication, have contributed articles centering around Schiller's dominant theme - the use and misuse o
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f power. In six parts: "The Formative Functions of Information Technology," "Information, International Relations, and Warfare," "Modes of Cultural Domination and Resistance," "The New Information Order: Struggles and Reconsiderations," "Reconstructing Information Patterns and Practices," and "Meeting the Future: Research and Action." Among the 27 contributors are Cees Hamelink, Tapio Varis, Dallas Smythe, Vincent Mosco, Stuart Ewen, Enrique González Manet, Yassen Zassoursky, William Melody, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Breda Pavlic, George Gerbner and James Halloran. Countries represented by the contributors are Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, India, the United States, the U.S.S.R., Cuba, England, Holland, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Peru, Sri Lanka and Kenya." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 30)
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"The United Nations, through the Center on Transnational Corporations, commissioned two separate reports on the sociocultural impact of transnational firms on developing countries. One was to analyze the positive impact; the other, the negative. Both reports were "to allow foundations for policies w
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ithin the framework of self-reliance." In 'Transnationals & the Third World' Mattelart has focused on the negative aspects, examining the structure and process of transnationals as they penetrate the Third World with entertainment, information and advertising. Notes and index. The positive report has not, at this writing, been published independently." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 272)
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"In 'Cultural Autonomy in Global Communications' Hamelink feels that cultural diversity, so necessary for development in the Third World, is being increasingly threatened by large-scale export of the cultural system of advanced industrial states and must be countered by new models of development esp
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ecially in the area of information. Here he makes a proposal for planning national information policies in a way that protects and stimulates the cultural autonomy of Third World countries - a proposal, so he says, which will undoubtedly be interpreted in some quarters as controversial." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 174)
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"Sixteen experts representing Latin America, the Third World, Europe, Israel, Canada, and the U.S. examine from their various viewpoints the new problems that have arisen in international communications. Their articles challenge conventional thinking on concepts such as free flow of information, cul
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tural integrity, the role of communications in national development, the right of nations to control their own cultural/communication space, and the current makeup of the international system of information transfer." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 323)
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"An analysis of media imperialism with a middle-range focus. Capitalist exploitation, Lee contends, is not limited to the Third World but extends to advanced capitalist countries as well. The real questions should resolve around " (1) the extent to which Marxist-Leninist theory of 'media imperialism
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' withstands vigorous historical tests and empirical verification; (2) the extent to which liberal rhetoric of 'free flow' refutes its formidable critics; and (3) the extent to which socialist centralized control, as some Marxian adherents claim, constitutes a viable alternative to the media imperialism of advanced capitalism.'' He centers upon three countries - Canada, Taiwan and China - for his inquiry. Although the analysis is of television specifically, it examines divergent theoretical and ideological structures common to other media as well." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 689)
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"The present study on the importation of films for cinema and television in Egypt is part of a series of case studies related to the structure, nature and flow of "transnational communication" and its socio-economic and cultural impact. Having its own reputable film industry and television organizat
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ion and being itself a film exporting country, Egypt was selected for this study, which was undertaken in 1979. However, the study shows that Egypt is heavily dependent on a small number of foreign companies, based in a few industrialized countries, which supply most of the films for cinema and television programming. The research emphasizes the need not only to examine the volume of imported communication material (a phenomenon already described in another UNESCO publication as "one way flow of information") but also the effects related to their content." (Foreword)
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