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"Nearly 200 countries are surveyed in this alphabetical, international guide to print and broadcast media. Each country profile contains a brief historical and political overview and sections focusing on news sources, the press, broadcasting, and a directory of major newspapers, broadcast organizati ... more

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Database on Broadcasting Laws in Western Europe and North America

Birgit Kofler

Paris: UNESCO (1991), 74 pp.

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Born Losers or Flexible Adjustment? The Media Policy Dilemma of Small States

Josef Trappel

European Journal of Communication, volume 6, issue 3 (1991), pp. 355-371

"Increased attention is being paid to 'smallness' as an analytical dimension as processes of internationalization and cross-media networking accelerate. To assure a certain 'room for manoeuvre' of small states' media and to enhance regional identities in Europe — in some respects counteracting the ... more

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Promises to Keep: People, Places and Parables in Communications from Around the World

Miles O'Brien Riley

Chicago: Wicklander Printing (1991), 213 pp.

"After twenty-five years of priesthood and twenty years in the mass media ministry, I took a sabbatical year, Easter '88 to Easter '89, to learn how the church in other countries and cultures was using communications to evangelize. I wanted to visit Catholic communicators worldwide; to learn from th ... more

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Mass Culture and Perestroika in the Soviet Union

Journal of Communication, volume 41, issue 2 (1991), pp. 8-200

"This volume of essays examines the far-reaching changes that have occurred in the realm of information, communications media, and public debate in the Soviet Union since Gorbachev began implementing his policies of Glasnost. The fifteen articles address these changes with an eye toward their histor ... more

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Music at the Margins: Popular Music and Global Cultural Diversity

Deanna Campbell Robinson, Elizabeth B. Buck, Marlene Cuthbert

London: Sage (1991), xiv, 312 pp.

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Survival, Efficiency and Independence: The Presence of Foreign Capital in the Hungarian Media Market

Zoltán Jakab, Mihály Gálik

Manchester: European Institute for the Media (1991), 58 pp.

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Overcoming Language Barriers in Television

Georg-Michael Luyken, Thomas Herbst, Jo Langham Brown, Helen Reid, Hermann Spinhof

Manchester: European Institute for the Media (1991), x, 214 pp.

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Hinter den Augen ein eigenes Bild: Film und Spiritualität

Michael Kuhn, Johan G. Hahn, Henk Hoekstra (eds.)

Zürich: Benziger (1991), 348 pp.

"Das Buch ist das Ergebnis eines Forschungsprojektes von Theologen verschiedener Disziplinen. Anhand von Wim Wenders Filmen werden grundlegende Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Spiritualität und Film dargestellt." (commbox)

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Rumänien: Die Situation der katholischen Kirche im Kontext von Geschichte und aktueller Politik

München: Kirche in Not (1991), 111 pp.

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Communication in Development

Fred L. Casmir (ed.)

Norwood, New Jers.: Ablex (1991), 352 pp.

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Der Buchverlag: Geschichte, Aufbau, Wirtschaftsprinzipien, Kalkulation und Marketing

Eduard Schönstedt

Stuttgart: Metzler (1991), xiii, 282 pp.

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Medienwelten Jugendlicher

Dieter Baacke, Uwe Sander, Ralf Vollbrecht

Opladen: Leske und Budrich (1991), 384 pp.

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Communication and Development: Mainstream and Off-Stream Perspectives. A German View

Franz-Josef Eilers, Manfred Oepen

In: Communication in Development

Fred L. Casmir (ed.)

Norwood: Ablex (1991), pp. 293-318

"Regarding the use of traditional communication for development, a holistic view and not just an isolated study of one or another medium or tradition is thus essential. Such an approach is the subject of a field of research and study which would be called ethnocommunication. Ethocommunication is "th ... e description and study of communication means, communication structures and communication processses in cultural units" (Eilers, 1986). After the study and description of different traditional means of communication available in a given society or culture, it is important to analyze their use and their relationships with each other as well as within the life of a community. Who and what determines the communication processes of the people concerned? Here, of course, the social structure comes to mind immediately. Such a structure definitely will be an important element, as it will determine where the different communicators and recipients are to be placed within the respective society. The social structure also gives the different communication processes their weight and importance, or their irrelevance, within that society. The importance of such social structures and of such networks of communication has been described in more general terms already. In addition, however, the importance of the value structure of a society must be considered and studied, especially in relation to traditional means of communication and communication for development in general [...] At this point, we also must ask what we mean by development. We definitely do not define development as transfer of technology or technological information only. More importantly, awareness of a peoples' own culture, society, expectations, and needs should be emphasized. In addition, the awareness of a given people of themselves and of the possibilities and alternatives they have within the existing framework of action, and how they are constrained by material and human resources, should be increased. Instead of being directed or dominated by urban-centered local or foreign "change agents," and by approaches resulting from concern with political power or prestige, people everywhere need to become aware of their indigenous values which have always been flexibly related to changes, but which have also given their lives a firm foundation and coherence, often for centuries. They should also become aware of their own existing communication media and networks, and should be assisted in building on them communication alternatives for development. The Christian churches, especially in Latin America, are going through an experience which have made them aware that it is not the institutionalized church or parish which moves people and makes them live their faith, but small Christian communities. Small groups of people coming together, reading the Bible, and discussing their daily life situation in the light of the scriptures are becoming a driving force, and they apparently have released new powers and talents among average and even poor people. Something similar is needed in all communication for development. The ethnocommunication approach thus seems to be one way to study how communication "means," structures and processes input in daily life by taking not only the social but also the value structures of a society into careful consideration. On the other hand, ethnocommunication should not be regarded as merely another method for selling goods or ideas, but to better make people understand their own situations and opportunities and, going on from there, help them decide if and how they want to develop new ways of dealing with contemporary challenges and opportunities." (Pages 304-307) more

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Desperately Seeking the Audience

Ien Ang

London: Routledge (1991), xii, 203 pp.

"Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien An ... more

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Handbuch der katholisch-theologischen Bibliotheken

Franz Wenhardt (Bearb.)

München: Saur;Arbeitsgemeinschaft Katholisch-Theologischer Bibliotheken, 3rd compl. revised ed. (1991), 175 pp.

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Periodismo y cultura

Jesús Martín-Barbero, Daniel Ulanovsky, Fernando Garavito, Manuel Caballero, Eduardo García Aguilar, Juan Cruz, Gustavo Tatis Guerra, José Hernández, Elena Poniatowska, Cheffi Borzachini, Arturo Guerrero, Miguel González Somovilla, Ricardo Grassi, Marisol Cano Busquets

Néstor García Canclini; Carmen Fuente Cobo (collab.)

Tercer Mundo Editores;Instituto Colombiano de Cultura (Colcultura) (1991), 247 pp.