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The Electronic Church

Ben Armstrong

Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson (1979), 192 pp.

"Armstrong, executive director of National Religious Broadcasters which establishes standards for religious stations and program producers and represents three-fourths of U.S. religious broadcasting, highlights rninistries representative of specific trends and discusses pros and cons of broadcast re ... more

Media Imperialism Reconsidered: The Homogenizing of Television Culture

Chin-Chuan Lee

Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage (1979), 276 pp.

"An analysis of media imperialism with a middle-range focus. Capitalist exploitation, Lee contends, is not limited to the Third World but extends to advanced capitalist countries as well. The real questions should resolve around " (1) the extent to which Marxist-Leninist theory of 'media imperialism ... more

La publicidad en Venezuela

José Martínez Terrero

Valencia: Vadell Hermanos Editores (1979), 210 pp.

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Rural Radio: Programme Formats

Kiranmani A. Dikshit et al.

Paris: UNESCO (1979), 94 pp.

Assistance to Third World Broadcasters: Source Directory

Miriam Williford

New York: Ford Foundation;BBC (1979), approx. 120 pp.

New Perspectives in International Communication: A Report on the Conference on Fair Communication Policy for the International Exchange of Information, Held in Honolulu in March-April 1976

Jim Richstad (ed.)

Honolulu: East-West Communication Institute (1978), ix, 241 pp.

Worldwide Markets for English-Language Books

George Kurian (ed.)

White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications (1978), 327 pp.

"A description of the book trade in the seven major English-speaking countries of the world, which, grouped by size of market, are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Republic of South Africa, Australia, India, and New Zealand. A special section gives eleven minor markets in alphabetical ... more

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Access: Some Western Models of Community Media

Frances J. Berrigan (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (1977), 229 pp.

"The three studies contained in this volume trace the emergence of 'community media' in Western society—specifically new approaches to broadcasting and electronic media in North America and Western Europe [...] The orientation of the studies is not purely towards research, though where research ha ... more

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Media Studies in Education

Susan Bennett et al.

Paris: UNESCO (1977), 92 pp.

"Covers aspects of media education in the secondary schools in certain European countries where it is emphasized: France, Italy, Federal Republic of Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the U.S.S.R. (cinema only), and the U.S.A. In all countries except the U.S. fil ... more

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The Role of Broadcasting in Rural Communication

Josef Eschenbach

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (1977), 148 pp.

"The title of this book raises expectations that are hardly fulfilled. One wonders again and again which target group the author had in mind when writing his work: it seems too impractical for practitioners and too unsound for theorists. For example, many of the names and authors cited lack bibliogr ... aphical information, which is also missing from the summarised bibliography (e.g. Levin, Hruschka). Important works that would appeal to practitioners in particular, such as Ralph Milton's Broadcasting Handbook (cf. CS 2:1969,182), are completely absent, not to mention books on fundamental considerations such as the works of Paulo Freire. The use of the so-called mass media in the development process is not as simple and unproblematic as the author suggests in his introduction. Broadcasting is hardly the miracle cure that people would like to make it out to be, and especially in the case of the frequently cited German projects of this kind, some questions must be asked about the consideration of existing indigenous, cultural, social and communicative values, which must also be taken into account when introducing modern means of communication. For example, is the role of the "change agent" really so important or is two-way communication not much more decisive for the development process (page 39 ff)? Some questions need to be asked. One has the impression that the whole book is too "German", which is probably also due to the fact that some passages have obviously been translated from German into English. Perhaps some of the unevenness is also due to the fact that various radio stations were asked to contribute to the book (e.g. Deutsche Welle, Südfunk, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Some aid organisations would be happy if the ACPO (- Sutatenza) radio school in Colombia could finance itself "mostly from advertising" (Page 56). But why are there no bibliographical references here either, such as to Musto's work (Berlin 1968) or to publications on such experiments in other continents (e.g. Neurath for India)? Bibliographical references to the Indonesian model by Salmon Padmanagara (page 87) would be welcome, as they are to many others. Maletzke's clear contribution (from page 105) on the evaluation of projects is a pleasant surprise. Some would have liked this section to be more detailed and the entire book to have some of its clarity." (translation from a review by Franz Josef Eilers in: Communicatio Socialis, vol. 12, 1979, nr. 1, pages 83-84) more

Weltgeschichte der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Versuch einer Gesamtdarstellung

Carmen Bravo-Villasante

Hannover et al.: Schroedel (1977), 436 pp.

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Radio for Education and Development: Case Studies. Volume II

Peter L. Spain (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1977), 460 pp.

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The Book Trade of the World. Vol. II: The Americas, Australia, New Zealand

Sigfred Taubert (ed.)

München et al.: Saur (1976), 377 pp.

Perspectives on Publishing

Philip G. Altbach, Sheila McVey (eds.)

Lexington, Mass.; Toronto: Lexington Books (1976), 283 pp.

Comunicación de masas: Una perspectiva sociológica

Charles R. Wright

Buenos Aires: Paidós (1976), 155 pp.

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Les systèms de vidéocassettes en education. Cahier III: Un problèm de droit d'auteur. Le repiquage des émissions a des fins éducatives

Robert Moore

Montréal: Minstère de l'Education du Québec (1976), 39 pp.

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World Communications: A 200 Country Survey of Press, Radio, Television, Film

Paris; Essex: Gower Press, 5th ed. (1975), xvii, 533 pp.

Radio Power: Propaganda and International Broadcasting

Julian Hale

Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1975), 196 pp.

"An introduction to the practice of overseas broadcasting as propaganda and the various ideological philosophies back of it, in terms both of sender and receiver. Analysis centers around Nazi Germany, the Communist countries, the U.S.'s Voice of America, Britain's BBC, and the undeveloped parts of t ... more

The First Casualty: From the Crimes to Vietnam. The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker

Phillip Knightley

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1975), 465 pp.

"The title indicates the scope of this excellent history of the war correspondent, including photographers, as Knightley traces him (and a few hers) from the beginning of this type of journalism in the Crimes in the 1850s to the war in Vietnam over a century later. In between he covers various wars, ... more