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"Among America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American perspective on global ev ... more

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Déontologie des médias: Institutions, pratiques et nouvelles approches dans le monde

Henri Pigeat, Jean Huteau

Paris: UNESCO (2000), 574 pp.

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Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective

Richard Gunther, Anthony Mughan (eds.)

Campbridge: Cambridge University Press (2000), 496 pp.

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Rethinking the Media Audience: The New Agenda

Pertti Alasuutari (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (1999), 212 pp.

"The key idea of this book is to argue that a 'third generation' of reception studies and audience ethnography is presently taking shape and will establish itself in the near future. However, the division of the development of reception studies and audience research into three 'generations' outlined ... more

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The Art of Facilitating Participation: Releasing the Power of Grassroots Communication

Shirley A. White (ed.)

Thousand Oaks: Sage (1999), 367 pp.

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The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach

Washington, DC: USAID, Center for Democracy and Governance (1999), 35, 10 pp.

"As such, support for media is an important prong of U.S. democracy and governance assistance. USAID’s objective of the increased development of a politically active civil society provides a strategic rationale for mediarelated activities. In addition, a desired result of an enhanced free flow of ... more

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Latin American Television: A Global View

John Sinclair

Oxford: Oxford University Press (1999), 187 pp.

"This book makes English speakers aware of the dimensions, operation, and significance of the globalisation of television in the Spanish-speaking world. Second only in scale to the market for English-language programming, the Spanish-language market embraces not just most nations of South and Centra ... more

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War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century

Emmanuel Sivan, Jay Winter (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (1999), vii, 260 pp.

"No scholarly consensus exists about how the terms 'memory' and 'collective memory' may most fruitfully inform historical study. Hence there is still much room for reflection and clarification in this branch of cultural history. How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in thi ... more

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Firma Fernsehen: Wie TV-Sender arbeiten. Alles über Politik, Recht, Organisation, Markt, Werbung, Programm und Produktion

Eric Karstens, Jörg Schütte

Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag (1999), 511 pp.

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World Communication and Information Report 1999-2000

M. Tawfik, G. Barragnon, Y. Courrier (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (1999), 302 pp.

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Talk als Show - Show als Talk: Deutsche und US-amerikanische Daytime Talkshows im Vergleich

Stefano Semeria

Opladen; Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (1999), 255 pp.

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The Idea of Public Journalism

Theodore Lewis Glasser (ed.)

New York; London: Guilford Press (1999), xxxiii, 229 pp.

"This volume offers a critical and constructive examination of the claims of public journalism, the controversial movement aimed at getting the press to promote and indeed improve - not merely report on - the quality of public life. From leading contributors, original essays refine the terms of the ... more

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Visually Speaking: Radio and the Renaissance of Preaching

Jolyon P. Mitchell

Edinburgh: T&T Clark (1999), 294 pp.

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Soap Operas Worldwide: Cultural and Serial Realities

Marilyn J. Matelski

Jefferson, North Carol.: McFarland (1999), xi, 220 pp.

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Women and Mass Communications in the 1990's: An International Annotated Bibliography

John A. Lent

London: Greenwood Press (1999), 510 pp.

"This international survey of literature on women an mass communications focuses on the 1990s and continues where the first volume (1991) left off. Some pre-1990 works that were omitted in the first volume are included here as well. The work is organized by continents and regions. The first chapter ... more

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Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death

Susan D. Moeller

New York; London: Routledge (1999), 390 pp.

"From outbreaks of the flesh eating viruses Ebola and Strep A, to death camps in Bosnia and massacres in Rwanda, the media seem to careen from one trauma to another, in a breathless tour of poverty, disease and death. First we're horrified, but each time they turn up the pitch, show us one image mor ... more

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The Jossey-Bass Guide to Strategic Communications for Nonprofits: A Step-By-Step Guide to Working with the Media to Generate Publicity, Enhance Fundraising, Build Membership, Change Public Policy, Handle Crisis and More

Kathy Bonk, Henry Griggs, Emily Tynes

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (1999), 188 pp.

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Die deutsche Sitcom: Format, Konzeption, Drehbuch, Umsetzung

Daniela Holzer

Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei Lübbe (1999), 317 pp.