"The contribution in this book cast a spotlight into dark, often neglected, corners of the "information society" as articulated in the World Summit on the Information Society. Several very different layers are illuminated, from the philosophical underpinnings of the role of information in society, t
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o the context and manner in which the concept has recently emerged into global consciousness, to how it can be deployed in practice to maximize benefits to society. An edited volume is well suited to covering these diverse ways of thinking about the topic as it offers the opportunity to bring together authors with different backgrounds and approaches." (Publisher description)
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"This is the first book to bring together many aspects of the interplay between religion, media and culture from around the world in a single comprehensive study. Leading international scholars provide the most up-to-date findings in their fields, and in a readable and accessible way. Some of the to
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pics covered include religion in the media age, popular broadcasting, communication theology, popular piety, film and religion, myth and ritual in cyberspace, music and religion, communication ethics, and the nature of truth in media saturated cultures." (Publisher description)
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"This book looks at the political economy of communication and information, media in development and social change, media theory and practice, international communication technology and communication values and ethics." (Publisher description)
"In this book, Cees J Hamelink proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather tha
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n profit, at the top of the agenda. He argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed. There is a growing volume of moral rules, netiquettes and codes of conduct, but they are of little help in solving the moral dilemmas raised by the new technologies. In this book the author analyzes the inadeqacies of current global governance policies and structures that underpin them, and argues for standards which put justice, human security and freedom first." (Publisher description)
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"Hamelink examines the political processes and decisions which determine the global communication environment. Mass communication, telecommunication, data traffic, intellectual property and communication technology have all been regulated by agreem
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ents within the international community. Examining negotiation processes and their outcomes, the author offers an analysis of the global politics of communication and its implications for specific nations, areas and communities. Underlying his analysis is a fundamental question: Do the standards agreed on world communication address the interests of ordinary people in their everyday lives?" (CAMECO Media Forum)
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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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"In tracing and analyzing the relationship between economics and communication with reference to the Third World, the authors define the obstacles caused by inequalities and imbalances standing in the way of a new economic order and describe various perspectives on the problems, along with suggestio
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ns of practical implementation for policy and action. They also consider the consequences for information and communication if such an order is established." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 332)
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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
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looks closely at its worldwide distribution and 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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"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 an
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d must be countered by new models of development especially 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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"Hamelink followed 'The Corporate Village' with a further exploration of the role of transnational corporations in international communication in 'Finance and Information'. In this he concentrates on an analysis of the relationship of contemporary
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information systems to the financial center and to the worldwide process of transnationalization." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 173)
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"A UNESCO report headed by Sean MacBride of Ireland in which representatives from Canada, Chile, Columbia, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Tunisia, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia and Zaire were mandated "to study the totality of Communication problems in modern
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society" in order to formulate "a more just and more efficient world information and communication order," keeping in mind particularly the differences among nations in culture and resources. The result of this hard, if not impossible, charge to reconcile divergent viewpoints represents a compromise which can wholly please none of the three worlds, but it does offer a wide-ranging investigation with varying viewpoints. Appendixes include a list of international organizations active in communications, and there are, in addition, a list of about 100 available background papers. Index. For a discussion of the report giving some of its strengths and weaknesses see 'Communication in the Eighties: A Reader on the "MacBride Report"', edited by Cees J. Hamelink. A 244-page paperback abridgement, 'Many Voices, One World', was published in 1984 by UNESCO." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 210)
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"This is not a compilation of codes of ethics, but rather a compilation about them, with chapters by journalists and journalist/educators from Eastern and Western Europe and Latin America. Chapters include: "The History of Written Codes of Ethics - A Chronology of Events" and " Contemporary Codes -
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A Review, " both by Lara Bruun (Finland); "Media Councils in the Western Hemisphere" by J. Clement Jones (England); "Journalists' Responsibility for the Destiny of Peace" by Spartak Beglov (U.S.S.R.); "Toward an International Code of Ethics" by Cees Hamelink (Holland); "Journalistic Ethics in Latin America" by Hernan Uribe (Chile); and "The International Ethics of Journalists" by Jean-Maurice Hermann (France). Appendixes contain a number of relevant documents from various nations and the UN. There are no indexes or references." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 51)
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