"This books deals explicitly with techniques which will help developing countries to establish book-publishing programs. It traces the various steps from beginning to end, including economics and specialized publishing, encouragement of literacy and reading development, the role of libraries, rights
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and contracts, and distribution, this latter encompassing retail bookstores and training." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1105)
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"Although intended as a sequel to Barker's Books for All (1956), The Book Revolution, by a well-known French sociologist, makes no effort to update statistics but rather focuses on broad trends in general and the fate of the literary book in the mass market in particular. The result is a series of p
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rovocative essays about the way in which belles lettres fare in various countries." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1042)
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"Anthology, prepared for UNESCO, which provides the first general view of the cinema in the Arab world. It is divided into six sections: the cinema and Arab culture, history of the Arab cinema, geography of the Arab cinema, problems and future development, recommendations, film lists and statistics.
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" (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1456)
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"Traces the development of India's press against the background of her history, with special emphasis upon the problem of the country's various languages and its struggle for independence from England. Contents include an overall introduction; the history of English daily newspapers; journalism in I
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ndian languages; periodicals; and a general section including government publicity, news agencies and syndicales, newsprint and technical problems, teaching of journalism, professional organizations, press laws, and the Indian Press Commission. A bibliography and appendixes give tables of facts and figures." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 938)
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"This study attempts to analyze the organization of book and periodical publishing in China from 1949 to the end of 1964, with particular reference to publications in the naturel, applied, and social sciences." Introduction. It gives as much information as could be obtained from sources at Hong Kong
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about the structure of the industry, the size of publishing houses, the relative amounts of literature published in minority and foreign languages, and the relative amounts published by subjects. It also deals with distribution systems - retail, direct, and through libraries. Contains four appendixes, a bibliography, and an index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1085)
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"Summary prepared by the IPI Research Service on the basis of texts published in IPI Report and other documents. Part I gives 88 pages of background information on press codes and councils in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, the Phi
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lippines, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the U. S. Part II gives texts of international codes for the United Nations and the Inter-American Press Association, and texts of national codes for Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the U.S." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 344)
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« Bien que conçu comme une suite à Books for All (1956) de Barker, 'Le livre dans le monde', écrit par un sociologue français bien connu, ne s'efforce pas de mettre à jour les statistiques, mais se concentre plutôt sur les grandes tendances en général et sur le sort du livre littéraire dan
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s le marché de masse en particulier. Le résultat est une série d'essais provocateurs sur la façon dont les belles lettres se portent dans différents pays. » (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1042)
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"Assesses socioeconomic, geographic, and other conditions in East Africa as they relate to the possibility of setting up an indigenous book publishing and distribution system." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G
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. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1010)
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"Assesses socioeconomic, geographic, and other conditions in East and West Africa as they relate to the possibility of setting up an indigenous book publishing and distribution system." (Eleanor Blum, Frances
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G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1011)
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"Survey of distribution and promotion in Ceylon, Burma, Iran, East and West Pakistan, North and South India, as well as in three highly developed countries by way of contrast - Holland, the United Kingdom, and the U.S." (Eleanor Blum, Frances
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G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1100)
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"An examination of measures to promote the development of existing news agencies, the establishment of agencies in areas not yet possessing them, and the flow of news within the region, as well as in other regions of the world." (Eleanor Blum, Frances
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G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 718)
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"The aim of the authors is to familiarize readers of denominational publications, both newspapers and magazines, with the ways in which these publications interpret the world in terms of religious commitments. In chapters both descriptive and broadly analytical, they discuss the Protestant, Catholic
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, and Jewish presses and the secular uses of the religious press. Footnotes. Marty is among the best of the writers on religion in contemporary America, and his findings hold over the decades since their publication here." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1078)
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"In 1963 when Rogers published the first edition of Diffusion of Innovations, summarizing and evaluating research results on the spread of ideas, his literature search revealed about 500 studies ranging from "new drugs among physicians to hand tools among primitive tribes to hybrid corn among farmer
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s." These he described and synthesized, along with unpublished research and personal discussions with American and European researchers in the area. Many of the studies involved cultures other than Western, and many were done by scholars in anthropology, sociology and related disciplines. Rogers concluded his survey with this statement: "This book is the first of two volumes. The second volume, co-authored with Shoemaker, can perhaps be written in ten or fifteen years after the leads for research suggested here have been followed and expanded upon." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 362)
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"This study seeks to present a survey of book, periodical, and newspaper publishing in the Soviet Union including some related topics such as censorship, copyright, and the book trade" (Preface). Emphasis is on science and technology." (Eleanor Blum, Fran
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ces G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1054)
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« Étude visant à déterminer dans quelle mesure la radiodiffusion est disponible dans le monde en tant que moyen de communication de l'information et à examiner les moyens de surmonter les obstacles politiques, économiques et technologiques qui entravent sa disponibilité. Elle décrit les syst
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èmes de radiodiffusion dans les différents pays, la radiodiffusion entre pays, l'utilisation du spectre radioélectrique, le partage des fréquences, la recherche de meilleures techniques et l'impact de la télévision sur la radiodiffusion ». (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 564)
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"A study to determine the extent to which radio broadcasting is available throughout the world as a means of communicating information and to examine ways of overcoming political, economic, and technological obstacles that impede its availability. It describes broadcasting systems in the various cou
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ntries, broadcasting between countries, use of the radio spectrum, the sharing of frequencies, the quest for better techniques, and the impact of television on radio broadcasting." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 564)
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"Gives training programs for journalists in 21 countries and contains discussions of UNESCO's role in journalism education and a series of eight articles by authorities on various aspects of journalism training, including a comparative analysis of curricula trends. Useful both historically and for c
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omparison with present day trends." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 429)
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"One of the most quoted books in the literature of press freedom, this defines it in terms of four types, with historical background and broad implications of each. Siebert is the author of the chapters on the authoritarian and libertarian theories; Peterson, the social responsibility theory, and Sc
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hramm, the Marxist theory. The basic thesis is that the social and political structures of a society shape and control its press." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 402)
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"A follow-up, concerned only with newspapers, to the five-volume series 'Press, Film Radio' (1947-51). Consists of 13 graphs and tables, with detailed explanatory texts, and covers the majority of countries and territories throughout the world. Also lists countries where no daily paper was published
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at that time." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 883)
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