"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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"Transcrição de sete comerciais e seis programas por Silvio Santos. A partir disto, o autor conclui que o uso autoritário da linguagem que se torna aparente não é espontâneo, mas deliberadamente persuasivo. Coloca as observações no contexto de extensas considerações teóricas." (commbox)
"Um retrato da política de comunicação da Igreja no Brasil do século XVI até os dias de hoje, discutindo a relação entre Igreja e sociedade em matéria de produção na esfera cultural. Com base nas premissas da teologia da libertação, é enfatizada a necessidade de uma nova prática dialó
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gica da mídia." (commbox)
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"Los objetivos de la investigación emprendidad son: [...] identificar a) los niveles que alcanzan en la emisiones radiofónicas la participación popular, la integración territorial y la identidad cultural de la nación; b) las posibles políticas y cursos de acción para crear, ampliar y/o mejora
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r sus niveles, lo mismo que para promover la solidaridad social; c) líneas de capacitación para comunicadores populares con vistas a ampliar su participación y la de sus mensajes en las emisoras de difusión masiva. Para alcanzar los objetivos se analizaron 579 horas de programación, equivalentes a cuatro días completos, de ocho emisoras en todo el país [...] Así resultaron elegidos las siguientes emisroas: Radio Rivadavia (Buenos Aires), Radio Universidad (Córdoba), Radio Junín (Junín, Prov. Buenos Aires), Radio Mocoví (Charata, Chaco), Radio Provincia de Corrientes (Corrientes), Radio Guaraní (Curuzú-Cuatiá), Radiodifusora Santiago de Estero y Radio Nacional Santiago de Estero." (Página 33-35)
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"This ambitious, broad-ranging study of one of the world's most interesting genres laudably tries to cover the telenovela industry, its creative process, the contents of novelas, and their reception by the working class. Besides having the descriptive richness one might expect of a book-length case
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study, the work has a sophisticated and relatively thorough theoretical orientation [...] Overall this book is a very good introduction to Brazilian television and the telenovela in particular. It is also of considerable value to those interested in Bourdieu's ideas, questions of social class and audience in general, or ethnographic research about audiences in the Third World." (Book review by Joseph Straubhaar, in: Journal of Communication, Spring 1990, page 162-164)
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"Una apretada síntesis del periodismo chileno desde el triunfo del liberalismo, prescindiendo de los precedentes y de los primeros pasos de la prensa, para insistir, sobre todo, en la era de las masas. La obra sobre todo hace conocer la prensa desde la década de 1930 hasta los momentos actuales."
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(Álvarez/Martínez Riaza: Historia de la prensa hispanoamericana. Madrid 1992)
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