"The collection covers a wide range of topics: the emergence and evolution of the field; issues and challenges in cross-cultural and intercultural inquiry; cultural wisdom and communication practices in context; identity and intercultural competence in a multicultural society; the effects of globali
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zation; and ethical considerations. Many readings first appeared outside the mainstream Western academy, and offer diverse theoretical lenses on culture and communication practices in the world community." (Publisher description)
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"This volume presents a range of information and analysis on the difficult relationship between the West and the Islamic world. It examines how the Western media has interpreted and misinterpreted Islam, the Arab world and the countries of the contemporary Middle East." (Publisher description)
"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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"Many of the essays in this volume seek to interpret traditional Asian approaches to communication in the light of modern Western concepts. At one level, this might appear to compromise the integrity of the Asian approaches. However, it needs to be stressed that this is a calculated strategy on the
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part of the authors. The objective of the rediscovery of this terrain of Asian approaches to communication is to revitalize and expand the field of communication by drawing on these rich resources. In order to do this, one must first gain legitimacy for these approaches in the eyes of Western and Western-trained Asian communication scholars. It is for this reason that many of the authors in this volume have thought it fit to explicate Asian approaches in relation to Western concepts. This book, which addresses itself to the task of rediscovering a terrain for communication theory, consists of 13 essays. The opening essay argues for the compelling need to study Asian approaches to communication. It does this by pointing out how Asian approaches to the study of communication can supplement, enrich, and challenge Western approaches. It points out that the Asian approaches should no longer be ignored as they can prove to be extremely productive in widening the discourse of communication metatheory." (Introduction, page xii)
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"This case study of Iran focuses on those indicators crucial to an understanding of an evolving communication system. These include environmental factors such as population, geography, history, and legal and social systems; data on national development objectives, resources and technologies; communi
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cation structures - the press, broadcasting, printing and publishing, film, advertising, telecommunications, theater, tapes and records, libraries and documentation centers, data publication, and storage and retrieval systems; and communication policies for gathering, processing and distributing information. Organized at a time of revolutionary change in Iran, it focuses primarily on the prerevolutionary period and includes only brief references to the major post-revolution developments." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 425)
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