"The purpose of producing a second edition of the World Communication Report was pragmatic: the aim was to provide a reference work for decision-makers, planners, researchers, students, media professionals and the general public. In view of the scope of the subjects covered and the rapid outdating o
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f certain features, this Report makes no attempt to be exhaustive, but brings out the convergence between information technology, information and communication and their applications in the various media (written press, news agencies, radio and television) and provides statistics on the changes observed in this field. It also attempts to highlight the major problems connected with the development of new information and communication technologies, such as the regulation of networks, media attitudes to violence and access of women to the media. The question that lies at the heart of this report may be summed up as follows: how are we to reinvent our patterns of thought and knowledge in the context of the technological multimedia revolution, which is proving both profound and irreversible?" (Preface)
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"Das Herder-Institut e.V., in bevorzugter Aussichtslage auf dem Schloßberg in Marburg gelegen, verfügt außer über eine große Bibliothek auch über ein Pressearchiv mit Presseausschnittssammlung über die Staaten Ostmitteleuropas; nach den jetzigen politischen Verhältnissen sind dies: Polen; Ts
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chechische Republik und Slowakische Republik; Estland; Lettland; Litauen. Dieser Aufzählung entsprechen die Kapitel des vorliegenden Katalogs, zu denen noch ein weiteres für Rußland (dem Großen Brudervolk) sowie ein ganz kurzes, Andere Presse betitelt, tritt, das einschlägige Presseerzeugnisse aus anderen Ländern enthält. Die Kapitel sind einheitlich gegliedert: 1. eine kurze pressehistorische Einführung mit einem Verzeichnis von Quellen und weiterführender Literatur sowie einem Abkürzungsverzeichnis; 2. Bestandsbeschreibung: dieser Abschnitt enthält das Alphabet der Zeitungstitel (split-entries) mit folgenden Angaben: Hauptsachtitel und Zusatz; beides in deutscher Übersetzung; kurze Beschreibung von Inhalt, Zielgruppe, Erscheinungsweise, Titeländerungen u.a.; Erscheinungsverlauf; ISSN; Bestand exakt bis hin zur Angabe der vorhandenen Nummern (an der man die - nicht selten erheblichen - Lücken ablesen kann); Signatur; Literatur über die Zeitung. Berücksichtigt sind nicht nur allgemeine Tages- und Wochenzeitungen, sondern auch die zeitungsartige Fachpresse. Insgesamt beläuft sich der Bestand auf 660 Titel (Vorwort, Seite X), von denen "ein großer Teil [...] in der Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)" nachgewiesen ist (ebd.); warum nicht alle, bleibt offen. - Ausgezeichneter, sachkundig bearbeiteter Zeitungskatalog, der zugleich eine Auswahlbibliographie zum Pressewesen dieser Länder darstellt und dem man lediglich ein Gesamtregister der verzeichneten Zeitungstitel gewünscht hätte." (Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken, 5. Jg. 1997, Nr.1-2)
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"This annotated bibliography is arranged under four major sections: press (579 entries); broadcasting (269 entries); film (381 entries); and general (526 entries), providing a total of 1,755 entries. The bibliography is well laid out, arranged by author and title. The bibliography limits its coverag
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e to those works available at a US or European library. Essential criteria for the author were to prepare annotations and to provide information which is easily accessible to the Western researcher. The selection criteria also preclude most newspaper articles, short reviews and brief articles in news and other popular magazines. The annotations are short, ranging from one to five lines. The coverage, as would be expected, shows a high bias toward South Africa for geographical, political and developmental reasons. It does, however, cover all the countries in Africa. An author index and subject and geographical index are provided which would help the researcher in picking up useful citations. The bibliography also contains a list of journals consulted which includes almost all the important journals in media studies." (K. N. Rao, Collection Building, Vol. 17, No. 1, pages 51-52)
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"Bourgault investigates three principal influences: the pre-colonial legacy of the oral tradition, the presence of an alienated managerial class, and the domination of African nations by systems based on political patronage. The first two chapters provide the theoretical framework. Subsequent chapte
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rs look at the management of the electronic media, radio and television broadcasting in content and practice, the history of print media, and the discourse style found in the press. This work provides a wealth of historical information on media systems, particularly those of the former anglophone and francophone countries, together with recent developments in satellite communication, small-systems technology, and the current move toward decentralization and privatization. Bourgault also considers the political shifts affecting Africa in the 1990s and offers a radical blueprint for more responsive and informative media in the sub-Saharan area." (Publisher description)
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"Although a number of books have been written on African journalism, this, according to Ochs, a professor of mass communication at the American University in Cairo, is the first to take an overall look at the continent as a whole, notwithstanding the lack of data and frequent change of ownership whi
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ch made his task difficult. The first 50 pages survey the continent, following which are case studies of seven countries offering representative yet contrasting languages and press situations: Tanzania and Nigeria (English-speaking), the Ivory Coast and Senegal (French-speaking), Morocco and Algeria (Arabic and French-speaking), and Egypt (Arabic-speaking). Throughout he has attempted to show the effect on the press of the extreme diversity of peoples, countries, cultures and politics. The term "press" includes broadcast as well as print media, but in the case of the former the "almost monolithic government control makes research here less productive." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 327)
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"[...] this directory is the first of its kind ever published in China, the only reference tool so far available in this respect," says Wang Yi, Advisor to the Bureau of Publishing Administration, Ministry of Culture. It contains 2,353 entries of publishers, booksellers, newspapers and periodicals t
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hroughout the country, with information collected through questionnaires to the end of 1983, and a few from early 1984. Information for each entry includes name in both Chinese and English, address, telephone, date founded, subject/s (where pertinent) or whatever brief background information is useful. Listing of publishers and booksellers is by province; of newspapers and periodicals, by subject. Each of the two main categories has its separate index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 139)
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