"Censorship takes the least flattering view of humanity. Underpinning its rules and regulations is the assumption that people are stupid, gullible, weak and corrupt." So says Green in his introduction to this international encyclopedic account of political, moral, and cultural censorship, past and p
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resent. Alphabetical entries range from the Pentagon Papers to Germany's Rubbish and Smut Bill. Press censorship is covered extensively in this provocative, one-volume ready-reference source." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 130)
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"This review of the literature on educational radio covers reports on research from many areas of the world. Prepared as an internal report for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and Educational Radio and Television (ERTV), it was intended to provide a basis for both fruitful discussi
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ons and more specific and practical local research. The topics reviewed are organized under seven major headings: (1) The Functions of Broadcasts (the potential of radio); (2) Ideas That We Can Implement (understanding radio, health education programs, pre-school children, learning to listen, and disabled children); (3) Educational Radio Formats (open broadcast, open broadcasts with print, radio campaigns, radio school, radio forum farms, the radio animation groups, radio-vision, and interactive radio); (4) Educational Radio Style (in holding children's attention, program presentation, learning materials, "interactive" radio, and humor); (5) Educational Radio Management (cost control, systematic instructional development, distributed learning, research design, formative evaluation, summative evaluation, research in ERTV and SABC, organization and utilization in SABC); (6) Educational Radio Target Audience (teenagers and young adults, children, the teacher's role in infant and primary schools, role of parents, the teacher/radio partnership, Radio Teacher Training Programme, and radio audience); and (7) Radio Classroom. Brief descriptions of several educational radio programs that were presented in a series from January to April 1974 are appended." (ERIC ED304096)
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"No mere calendar, this encyclopedic chronology of freedom of the press covers all time periods from prehistory to the present. Although the arrangement is chronological, with chapters such as "Printing in a World of Irreverence, 1500 Through 1599," a detailed subject and name index makes it fully a
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ccessible. Brief entries describe pivotal events and court decisions in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. A selected bibliography presents about 200 important books on press freedom. Aimed at teachers and students, this volume is a valuable ready reference source and highlights other areas ripe for research. See also McCoy's Freedom of the Press: An Annotated Bibliography (1968; supplement 1993) and Freedom of the Press: A Bibliocyclopedia (1979). Ingelhart also authored Freedom for the College Student Press (Greenwood, 1985) and Press Law and Press Freedom for High School Publications (Greenwood, 1986)." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 136)
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"A comprehensive and succinct description of the many aspects of world broadcasting which is both descriptive and analytical. Howell puts together concepts, trends, and facts and figures in interesting new patterns. His classification of world broadcasting systems is an example; instead of the class
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ic four theories - authoritarian, libertarian, Soviet Communist, and social responsibility - he suggests authoritarian, western, communist, revolutionary and developmental. The book is in three large sections: "Frames of Reference in World Broadcasting," in which he discusses a rationale, a framework, a methodology, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations; "The Four Worlds of National Broadcasting" - the English-speaking West, the Soviet Union and Communist Bloc countries, developing countries, and pluralistic societies; and "Previewing and Reviewing World Broadcasting" - international broadcasting via short wave and satellite, and global trends in broadcasting, cable, and VCR within a national framework." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 665)
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"A review of 666 articles and monographs about the cultural influence on development with detailed commentaries. Chapter II.2 is about 'Culture, communication, cultural industries' and describes 100 publications about the impact of the audiovisual media and new information and communication technolo
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gies on culture and development." (commbox)
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"The first part includes studies international in scope, or deal with general theoretical, methodological and policy issues. The second part contains studies treating the regional or national flow of news by country for Africa, the Arab States, Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, an
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d South and Central America. While studies on news flow in Latin America and Asia are numerous, there are fewer for Africa and the Socialist countries, which makes their inclusion especially valuable. Certain of the works are supported with systematic data, while others are historical and analytical. Entries, which are extensively annotated, cover monographs, periodical articles, and theses, and are by contributors from around the globe. Hamid Mowlana compiled an earlier bibliography, International Communication: A Selected Bibliography (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1971), well-organized but not annotated." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 309)
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"Traces the history of international broadcasting - broadcasting outside national frontiers - from the early days of radio to the present, with a look at the impact of these broadcasts and how they can be measured. The authors also examine some of the problems inherent in the practice, including jam
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ming, and they consider the future of the medium. They explain that they have made the study as comprehensive as possible, but because of the wide range of the subject, the number of stations involved, and the difficulty in getting facts, there are inevitable omissions. There is a bibliography and an appendix, "Estimated Total Programme Hours Per Week of Some External Broadcasters." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 539)
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