"The monograph combines educational philosophy discourse and educational research approaches. The authors adhere to the definition of the media literacy as ‘the process of assimilating and using the codes involved in the contemporary media system as well as the operative skills needed to properly
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use the technological systems on which these codes are based’ and as ‘the capacity to access, analyse and evaluate the power of the images, sounds and messages with which we are faced every day and which play an important role in contemporary culture. It includes the individual capacity to communicate using the media competently. Media literacy concerns all media, including television, film, radio and recorded music, the press, the Internet and any other digital communication technology [...] They share the idea that media literacy is a basic skill, one that supports many others and that it therefore should not solely be taught as a specific field of knowledge, nor simply as a skill, nor as a collective practice." (Foreword, page 5-6)
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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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"An examination of the transnational production and distribution of information and flow of mass media material, with special attention to the role by corporations. Emphasis is on film and television, and to a lesser degree on the print media. There are also case studies of Argentina and Thailand."
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(Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 160)
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"Cees Hamelink, a prolific analyst of international communication with emphasis on developing nations, makes a case that capitalism as practiced by developed nations thwarts effective communication in the Third World. Hamelink's thesis in 'The Corporate Village', international communication, far fro
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m turning the world into McLuhan's "global village," has instead created a oneway flow of culture, a communication imperialism of political-economic structures dominated by capitalistic nations. Documenting corporate interests and concentration of the transnationals as they affect the Third World, he shows the cultural dependency this has caused. He concludes with a discussion of the signs of cultural rcsistance and an exploration of countervailing power of national governments, the UN, labor unions, churches, universities/research institutes, and action groups. Parts of the book consist of excerpts from other works by various authors, including among others Armand Mattelart, Herbert Schiller, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Thomas H. Guback, and Tapio Varis." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 172)
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"The first part of this study made at the University of Tampere is an international inventory of the composition of TV programs, particularly from the point of view of material imported to a country from outside, and a survey of the international networks for sale and exchange of program material fo
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r TV. Included are numerous tables, charts, and graphs. The second part is the essence of a symposium held at the University of Tampere which comments upon the hard facts contained in the study." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 734)
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