"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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"Constituye una de las monografías más completas y recientes sobre la prensa uruguaya, haciendo una presentación acabada de los medios y la evolución. Una obra de referencia." (Álvarez/Martínez Riaza: Historia de la prensa hispanoamericana. Madrid 1992)
"Mattelart is one of the best exponents of the Marxist viewpoint in relation to developing nations. 'Communicating in Popular Nicaragua' is a critical anthology of 12 articles by authors from Nicaragua and the United States who give a Marxian analysis of numerous aspects of communication, broadly de
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fined to include mural expression and literary and social movements as well as the more traditional journalism, the press, radio, film and video. A number of the articles are published here for the first time. In conclusion is a bibliography of "Left" studies on the media and culture in Nicaragua and Latin America in general." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 271)
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"Bibliographic information, physical description, notes about contents, and persons associated with many alternative or counter-culture periodicals available at the Centro de Imprensa Alternativa e Cultura Popular in Rio. Coverage through 1982. Claims to be the most complete list of alternative peri
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odicals yet published in Brazil." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)
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"Die einzige pauschale Aussage, die man über "Die Bundesrepublik in der spanischsprachigen Presse Lateinamerikas" machen kann, lautet: Jede einzelne der sechsundvierzig Zeitungen aus den zehn Ländern, die für die vorliegende Untersuchung ausgewählt wurden, stellt ein anderes Bild von der Bundesr
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epublik Deutschland her." (Untersuchungsergebnisse, Seite 256)
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