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"Myron J. Pereira, SJ, brings together his years of experience in Development Communication as the director of ASTHA, a department of the Xavier Institute of Communications, Bombay. In this book he deals with sound slides, video, audio-cassettes and posters, street-plays and puppets and how they can ... more

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Christliche Rundfunksender weltweit: Rundfunkarbeit im Klima der Konkurrenz

Hansjörg Biener

Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag (1994), 336 pp.

"Rund 20 Jahre nach der letzten Dissertation zum Themenkreis »christliche Medienarbeit« [Joachim Schmidt. Rundfunkmission: Ein Massenmedium wird Instrument. Erlangen 1980] legt Hansjörg Biener nun eine umfassende Monographie über die Hörfunksender vor, die weltweit die christliche Botschaft tra ... more

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Television and the Viewer Interest: Explorations in the Responsiveness of European Broadcasters

Jeremy Mitchell, Jay G. Blumler (eds.)

London: European Institute for the Media (1994), 264 pp.

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Mass Media: Support for Rural Development. Bibliography

Jaya Patil

Calcutta et al.: Delta Publishing House (1994), 98 pp.

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Impact of Communication Technologies on Women

Silvia Pérez-Vitoria (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (1994), 48 pp.

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TV Transnationalization: Europe and Asia

Preben Sepstrup, Anura Goonasekera (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (1994), 88 pp.

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Media and Developement: Themes in Communication and Extension

M. R. Dua, V. S. Gupta

New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications (1994), 176 pp.

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Mass Media in the Middle East: A Comprehensive Handbook

Yahya R. Kamalipour, Hamid Mowlana (eds.)

Westport: Greenwood Press (1994), 333 pp.

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Transmission 1977-1994: Kalai Kaviri

S. Balakumar (ed.)

Tiruchrapalli (IN): Kalai Kaviri (1994), approx. 200 pp.

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Im Schatten des Reichtums: Neue Armut - altes Elend

Institut Jugend Film Fernsehen (ed.)

München: kopaed (1994), 127 pp.

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The Media After Communism

Colin Sparks (ed.)

Media, Culture & Society, volume 16, issue 2 (1994), pp. 179-312

"[...] We consider here a wide range of post-communisms. At one extremestands the former German Democratic Republic: There, the politicalcollapse of communism immediately preceded the economic and socialdestruction of the old way of life. As Maryellen Boyle shows, theaspirations of the people who ov ... erthrew communism were swept aside bythe juggernaut of reunification. This anschluss - to borrow Habermas’shistorically loaded term -was immediately followed by the imposition ofWest German ideas and structures. Within broadcasting, this foundexpression in the setting up of a new system integrated into the existing West German framework. These structural changes were accompanied bythe appointment of Western managers, often from the ruling ChristianDemocratic Party, and an extensive purge of the existing staff. EasternGermany has been rather brutally and very finally integrated into the worldmarket at the expense of the people who ran the Stalinist state.A t the other extreme stands the Chinese experience. There the processof integration, and the destruction of central planning, are proceeding asrapidly in television as in any other part of society. The political system,however, remains controlled by the very same people who have been inpower for years. As Yu Huang shows, the massive development oftelevision in China has been largely the result of the introduction of localautonomy and a shift towards commercial financing. This has led to strainsand tensions between the central party apparatus and the broadcasters.The aftermath of Tiananmen Square was to increase political control butnot to interrupt the growth of the market. One might say that, so far atleast, the process of integration into the world market has been to thebenefit of the people who ran the old system.Between these two extremes lie the majority of countries of the formerSoviet empire in Europe and its local offshoots elsewhere. In differentcountries there have been varying degrees of political change and the scaleand extent of the introduction of market mechanisms and privatization hasbeen extremely uneven. We publish two articles which reflect on East andCentral Europe and which attempt to theorize those experiences. ColinSparks and Anna Reading look at the main currents of social theory whichhave tried t o explain the nature of the end of communism and itsaftermath. They apply propositions derived from these to the study oftelevision in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. KarolJakubowicz makes wider geographical generalizations, but concentrateshis attention mostly on Poland. Despite recognizing the continuingpolitical pressure on the media, he is finally optimistic as to the chances of‘depoliticizing’ television [...] (Editorial) more

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Women Empowering Communication: A Resource Book on Women and the Globalisation of Media

Margaret Gallagher, Lilia Quindoza-Santigo (eds.)

London; New York; Manila: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC);International Women's Tribune Centre;Isis International (1994), 211 pp.

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Whose News? The Media and Women's Issues

Ammu Joseph, Kalpana Sharma (eds.)

London: Sage (1994), 335 pp.

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Sinnes Täuschung: Wie Medien unsere Wahrnehmung verändern

Edmund Carpenter

Wuppertal: Edition Trickster im Peter Hammer Verlag (1994), 223 pp.

"Carpenter begreift Medien als erweiterten Spiegel, als veräußerte Träume unseres Selbst, die uns, sobald wir mit ihnen in Berührung kommen, gefangen nehmen. Seine Zuneigung zu den Naturvölkern ermöglicht ihm Beobachtungen, die zeigen, wie sehr diese Medien in einen Bann schlagen." (Süddeutsc ... more

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Indonesien: Eine kritische Annäherung

Milton Osborne, Wolfgang Karcher, Erika Jung et al.

Bochum: Südostasien Informationsstelle (1994), 161 pp.

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How to Establish Effective Book Marketing and Distribution Systems in Asia/Pacific: Report of the Regional Training Course on Book Production in Asia/Pacific (Tokyo, Japan, September 21-October 9, 1994)

Tokyo: Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) (1994), 108 pp.

"The participants in this 1994 regional training course examined the issue of book distribution and marketing. They focused on book marketing together with the development of distribution in order to prepare practical action plans for improvement. Twenty-three experts from 20 countries in Asia/Pacif ... more

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The NCTB Towards the 21st Century: A Model of Publishing Primary School Textbooks

Gerard Aleven, Nico den Tuinder

Dhaka: National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) (1994), 37 pp.