"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
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ical precedent, conflicting responses, and chance for survival. Topics covered include: mass culture and the market; youth culture; glasnost, journalism, and the media; and television and perestroika." (Publisher description)
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"Twenty-eight experts examine broadcasting in 24 countries in this essay handbook. John Lent takes on Cuba and India; Benno Signitzer and Kurt Luger look at Austria; and Marvin Alisky reports on Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Other included countries are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, the Fede
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ral Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, Sweden, and the United States. According to the introduction, "At present no reference work exists where one can readily ascertain what the broadcast structure is in a given nation and how it came to be. By filling this void, we hope that our work will make a substantial contribution to the field of international broadcasting." This they have done. Most essays include a bibliography; information on history, regulation, economic structure, programming, new technologies, and broadcast reform; and a conclusion and/or forecast. What type of information can be found under "broadcast reform"? In Israel, for example: The reaction against the "leftist mafia," a nickname coined for broadcasters, has been strongly felt in programming and personnel appointment policies. A popular TV satirical program was taken off the air in the late 1970s in response to harsh political criticism. The television prime-time weekly news magazine, broadcast on Friday nights, was cancelled in the mid-1980s on the grounds that the Israeli people should not be exposed to "demoralizing" news on the Sabbath eve." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 445)
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"An examination of the unofficial news networks used by Soviet citizens to penetrate official control of information, along with an investigation of the officially controlled media to show the reasons for their weaknesses, both organizational and technological." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Ma
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ss media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 398)
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"An anthology on international publishing including such aspects as freedom to publish, publishing for human development, international book fairs, piracy, children's publishing, global problems of scholarly publishing, educational publishing, and - specifically for developing countries - training a
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nd collection development. Articles also deal with various phases of book publishing in the U.S.S.R., India, Japan, Australia, the Arab countries, Latin America, Spain, Mexico and French-speaking Africa. The volume is a festschrift honoring Maneul Salvat, President of the International Publishers Association." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1051)
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"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
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bject, title, and personal name index." (Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources. Ed. Paula H. Covington. New York et al.: Greenwood Press, 1992, nr. 5522)
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"An examination of the operations and management of the vast Soviet publishing industry in the light of govemmental policy and its effects on creation, content, production, manufacture, and distribution. Appendixes give authors'fee scales and all-union book retail prices." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G.
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Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1120)
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"Theoretically, advertising and communism are not compatible, but Hanson explains why this is not necessarily the case. In Part I he treats the Soviet Union, in Part II, Eastern Europe, showing in both parts organization and function and highlighting similarities and differences. Much of the informa
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tion in Part II comes from a survey in which nationals responded to a questionnaire. A bibliography in the appendix accompanies Part I. The study was originally published in 1971 and 1972 as two separate monographs in the (British) Advertising Association's Research Studies in Advertising series." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1573)
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