"Scholars from various countries of the socialist and capitalist - the developing and developed - world, and representing many of the disparate areas that make up the interdisciplinary field of communication, have contributed articles centering around Schiller's dominant theme - the use and misuse o
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f power. In six parts: "The Formative Functions of Information Technology," "Information, International Relations, and Warfare," "Modes of Cultural Domination and Resistance," "The New Information Order: Struggles and Reconsiderations," "Reconstructing Information Patterns and Practices," and "Meeting the Future: Research and Action." Among the 27 contributors are Cees Hamelink, Tapio Varis, Dallas Smythe, Vincent Mosco, Stuart Ewen, Enrique González Manet, Yassen Zassoursky, William Melody, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Breda Pavlic, George Gerbner and James Halloran. Countries represented by the contributors are Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, India, the United States, the U.S.S.R., Cuba, England, Holland, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Peru, Sri Lanka and Kenya." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 30)
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"The proceedings of the 19th Congress of the International Board on Books for Young People, 9-14 October 1984, held in Nicosia, Cyprus. Includes contributions from all over the world, including papers on children’s book publishing in Africa." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Sahar
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an Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1686)
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"In calm and reasoned prose that digs beneath the surface, Gibbons explores the relationship between the rich and poor countries - the have's and have not's - which has resulted from an enormous gap in information technology. His aim is to create a better understanding between the old order and the
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new on a domestic and international level and in terms of economics and ideology. Throughout the discussions he describes the various conferences on the subject, as well as the development of UNESCO's interest. Each chapter lists sources. One of the appendixes gives the text of "The Declaration of Fundamental Principles Concerning the Contribution of the Mass Media to Strengthening Peace and International Understanding, the Promotion of Human Rights and to Countering Racialism, Apartheid and the Incitement of War," adopted in 1978 by the UNESCO General Conference." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 145)
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"This study is especially interesting because Garbo, a Norwegian, writes not only from his own association with the United Nations, UNESCO and the International Programme for the Development of Communication, but also from a broad knowledge of flow-of-information literature. The story of his involve
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ment in the futile efforts to remedy the uneven distribution of communication technology, news, and entertainment through international organization is, to a large extent, the history of the opposing viewpoints between the have's and havenot's. In the telling he reviews the research on content and possible effects, especially in regard to American television programs popular in developing countries. This is one of the best sources to gain a long-term perspective on media development in the Third World." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 140)
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"In the debate between the developing and developed world over the function and structure of the mass media, this collection consolidates and interprets primary findings of an international study funded by the U.S.I.A. that analyzes content and dissemination of foreign news by the mass media of 17 T
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hird World countries and the four major Western news agencies. Among contributors are the editors, Richard Cole, Kirsten Thompson, Gary Gaddy, J. Walker Smith, Anne Cooper, Emmanuel Paraschos, David Weaver, Cleve Wilhoit, Jere Link, Robert Haynes, Jr. and Thomas Ahern, Jr." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 418)
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"Papers from an international conference held by the Protestant Academy of Arnoldshain (Schmitten, Federal Republic of Germany), the Protestant Association for Media Communication (Frankfurt, FRG) and the World Association for Christian Communication (London), with the common theme that all people a
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re entitled to equal rights of access to information technology. Articles discuss concentration of the media in both state and private hands, with its inevitable result on public opinion as it becomes more and more powerful; the danger that the increasing internationalization of media may prevent democratic control; and a final article, "Advertising and the Creation of Global Markets," contending that the new information technologies are creating an infrastructure that is making the 20th century "information age" a "commercial age" at a global level." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 29)
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"The article examines the situation of authors and publishers in developing countries: Lack of competent authors, of paper, of machinery, but also lack of scientific reputation of publishers characterize the situation; lack of foreign exchange limits the purchase of foreign books, making it difficul
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t for university libraries to fulfill their mission of information distribution. Suggestions for improving the situation are discussed." (GIZ Library Bonn)
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"Because data is the raw-stuff of information, and information is of primary importance in national development, the free flow of data becomes increasingly necessary for social development. In 'Transnational Data Flows in the Information Age' Hamelink looks closely at its worldwide distribution and
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finds, not surprisingly, that data, along with the accompanying social benefits resulting from technological information "normally do not befall the poor majority of the Third World." He enumerates the situation in detail, discussing the information age, telematics, transnational corporations and transnational data flows, the impact and disparities in the telematics, data regulation, and consideration of policy. Although emphasis is on the Third World, the background is of necessity general, including Western Europe and the U.S." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 175)
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"Brings together 54 articles on research and policy on communications in the "three worlds" by scholars and policy makers from the U.S., Western Europe, the socialist countries including the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, and the developing world, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America - 25 countri
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es all told. The editors' goal was "not to orchestrate the voices but to select papers that are well-argued and representative of the diversity of opinion on various issues." Thus there are case studies as well as policy statements and critiques. In five parts: "Global Perspectives on Information," "Transnational Communications: The Flow of News and Images," "Telecommunications," "Mass Communications: Development within National Contexts," and "Intergovemmental Systems. " Appendixes include a bibliography, international and intergovernmental events and documents on the subject, acronyms and other terms used, and global satellite systems." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 143)
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"In 'Cultural Autonomy in Global Communications' Hamelink feels that cultural diversity, so necessary for development in the Third World, is being increasingly threatened by large-scale export of the cultural system of advanced industrial states and must be countered by new models of development esp
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ecially in the area of information. Here he makes a proposal for planning national information policies in a way that protects and stimulates the cultural autonomy of Third World countries - a proposal, so he says, which will undoubtedly be interpreted in some quarters as controversial." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 174)
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"The United Nations, through the Center on Transnational Corporations, commissioned two separate reports on the sociocultural impact of transnational firms on developing countries. One was to analyze the positive impact; the other, the negative. Both reports were "to allow foundations for policies w
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ithin the framework of self-reliance." In 'Transnationals & the Third World' Mattelart has focused on the negative aspects, examining the structure and process of transnationals as they penetrate the Third World with entertainment, information and advertising. Notes and index. The positive report has not, at this writing, been published independently." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 272)
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