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Third World News in American Media: Experience and Prospects

Donald Shanor, Donald H Johnston (eds.)

New York: Columbia University, Center for Advanced Study of Communication and Public Affairs, Graduate School of Journalism (1983), 63 pp.

"Report of a conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Nineteen short essays by academics and journalists, all of whom have interest and/or experience in news coverage about the Third World, discuss what America is doing in reporting it and how, perhaps, it can be done better." (Eleanor Blum, Fra ... more

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The New Latin American Cinema: An Annotated Bibliography 1960-1980

Julianne Burton

New York: Smyrna Press (1983), 80 pp.

"Includes bibliographies; filmographies; books in Spanish, Portuguese and English; general articles and articles on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela; Hispanic cinema in the U.S.; and a listing of film periodicals in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Ab ... more

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Geschichte des Films ab 1960, Bd. 4: Osteuropa, Lateinamerika, Afrika, Asien, Australien, Nordamerika

Ulrich Gregor

Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt (1983), pp. 327-652

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General Assembly of UNDA: Nairobi 1983

Nairobi: UNDA (1983), 202 pp.

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Television Coverage of International Affairs

William C. Adams (ed.)

Norwood, New Jers.: Ablex (1982), 253 pp.

"How adequately and fairly does U.S. television treat foreign news? This issue is addressed in 13 content analyses groupsd in five parts: "Global Coverage," "Third World," "The West and Presidential Diplomacy," "Southeast Asia," and "Audience." The contributors also survey pertinent literature. Bibl ... more

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World Press Encyclopedia, Vol. 2

George Thomas Kurian (ed.)

New York: Facts on File (1982), pp. 645-1202

"Country chapters identify and describe major and selected specialized newspapers and mass circulating magazines. Tables provide basic information for the dailies. Each chapter also carries a discussion of press laws, censorship, state-press relations, and attitudes toward foreign media. Detailed su ... more

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International Radio Broadcasting: The Limits of the Limitless Medium

Donald R. Browne

New York: Praeger (1982), 369 pp.

"Browne calls this book a selective history of international radio broadcasting designed to help the reader 'understand better the reasons for the birth and growth of international stations in particular and international radio in general, the sorts of internal and external pressures that bear upon ... more

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World Press Encyclopedia. Vol. 1

George Thomas Kurian (ed.)

New York: Facts on File (1982), 641 pp.

"This is a survey of the state of the press in 180 countries, organized in four sections: Section I, "The International Press"; Section II, "The World's Developed Press Systems"; Section III, "Smaller and Developing Press Systems, " and Section IV, " Minimal and Underdeveloped Press Systems." Covera ... more

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A teleinvasão: A participação estrangeira na TV do Brasil

Carlos Rodolfo Améndola Avila

São Paulo: Cortez Editora;Editora Unimep (Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba) (1982), 118 pp.

"Relato histórico da influência estrangeira na radiodifusão brasileira (no rádio desde 1922 e na televisão de 1950 a 1980). A tese básica do autor é que o rádio é manipulado e dominado principalmente pelos interesses dos EUA. Contém numerosas tabelas." (commbox)

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Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism

Jeffrey K. Hadden, Charles E. Swann

Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley (1981), xxi, 217 pp.

"The co-authors - Swann, an ordained Presbyterian rninister who is currently managing WRFK-FM for the Virginia Theological Seminary, and Hadden, a professor of religious sociology at the University of Virginia - have made an intensive and critical study of religious broadcasting - examining its root ... more

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Television News in a North-South Perspective: Reports - Documents - Recommendations of the Third International Broadcast News Workshop

Reinhard Keune (ed.)

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) (1981), 180 pp.

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Mass Media and Social Change

Elihu Katz, Tamás Szecskö (eds.)

Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage (1981), 271 pp.

"A compilation of the papers of Symposium VII of the 9th World Congress of Sociology whose central theme asks whether the mass media should be agents of change or agents of the status quo. Central to the articles are discussions from varying viewpoints as to the nature of news and the factors that s ... more

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Broadcasting Around the World

William E. McCavitt

Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books (1981), 336 pp.

"Description of broadcasting systems in 18 countries: South Africa, Poland, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Guyana, India, Federal Republic of Germany, Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Australia. Each chapter has been written by an individua ... more

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U.S. International Book Programs 1981

John Y. Cole (ed.)

Washington, DC: Library of Congress (1981), 61 pp.

"The Library of Congress' Center for the Book surveys 32 book and book-related programs carried out by governmental, inter-governmental and private agencies in the U.S. to promote books and reading. In an introductory essay John B. Putnam discusses "The Book Crisis in the Developing World," and an a ... more

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Reporting Southern Africa: Western new agencies reporting from Southern Africa

Phil Harris

Paris: UNESCO (1981), 168 pp.

"It would be a mistake to imagine that reporting from southern Africa is a special case. One of the points that must be made is that newsagency correspondents are expected to and expect to be able to report in many different types of social, political and economic situations. This was certainly a po ... more

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Public Communication Campaigns

Ronald E. Rice, William J. Paisley (eds.)

Berverly Hills: Sage (1981), 328 pp.

"Original essays define the scope of and show how to improve campaigns that promote public service programmes - among them, anti-smoking, family planning, heart disease prevention, and fire prevention campaigns. Academics, programme administrators, evaluators and policy makers show how to assess nee ... more

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Television Coverage of the Middle East

William C. Adams

Norwood, New Jers.: Ablex (1981), 167 pp.

"Eight previously unpublished studies which examine patterns of coverage and summarize attitudinal findings. The first chapter is a summary of content findings in later chapters, with more detailed discussion of coverage of Afghanistan and Iran; the next five chapters center upon Israel and Arab nat ... more

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Case Studies of Mass Media in the Third World

Mario D. Zamora, Vinson H. Sutlive, Nathan Altshuler (eds.)

Williamsburg, Va.: College of William and Mary (1980), vi, 264 pp.

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Mass Media and the Transnational Corporation: A Study of Media-Corporate Relationship and its Consequences for the Third World

Basskaran Nair

Singapore: Singapore University Press (1980), 172 pp.

"Do negative news reports on Third World countries have an adverse effect on the business climate, diverting transnational corporation investment away from those countries? In an exploratory study Nair has investigated the question, using data collected through library research and interviews with 3 ... more

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American Communication in a Global Society

Glen Fisher

Norwood, New Jers.: Ablex (1979), ix, 165 pp.

"Fisher, who has been involved in a number of American governmental communication agencies in connection with Third World countries, including the International Communication Agency, the U.S.I.A., and as a Foreign Service Officer, has drawn upon both his professional experience and the academic disc ... more