Comparative Mass Media Systems
New York: Longman (1983), viii, 356 pp.
Contains index
Series: Longman Series in Public Communication
ISBN 0-582-28327-2
Reviewed in: Acta Sociologica, vol. 29, no. 2 (1986), p. 197
Signature commbox: 10-International-E 1983
"Analyzes media systems from the viewpoints of the West, the Communist countries, and those developing countries lumped together as the Third World. Six key concepts or functions of the media are treated: the concept of news; the concept of the role of the mass media; the educational, persuasive and opinion-making function; the entertainment function; press freedom; media economics." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 267)
