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Latin American television: a global view
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
(1999), 187 pp., index, bibliogr. p.170-172
ISBN 978-0-19-167358-0 (ebook); 978-0-19-815930-8 (print)
"This book makes English speakers aware of the dimensions, operation, and significance of the globalisation of television in the Spanish-speaking world. Second only in scale to the market for English-language programming, the Spanish-language market embraces not just most nations of South and Centra...
The writer's reference guide to Spanish
Austin:
University of Texas Press
(1999), vii, 274 pp., bibliogr. p.263-268, index
ISBN 0-292-72512-4 (pbk)
"This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. The book covers these major areas: language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation; language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, nam...
War and remembrance in the twentieth century
Cambridge; New York:
Cambridge University Press
(1999), vii, 260 pp.
ISBN 978-1-139-93934-8 (ebook); 978-0-521-64035-0 (hbk); 978-0-521-79436-7 (pbk)
"No scholarly consensus exists about how the terms 'memory' and 'collective memory' may most fruitfully inform historical study. Hence there is still much room for reflection and clarification in this branch of cultural history. How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in thi...
Women's (community) radio as a feminist public sphere
Javnost: the public, volume 5, issue 2 (1998), pp. 73-85
"This article explores how women's community radio can contribute to a feminist public sphere and serve as a tool for women's empowerment through the media. Compared to film, TV and newspapers, radio is a relatively under researched and under valued area of the media. An extension of this situation ...
World communication report: the media and the challenge of the new technologies
Paris:
UNESCO
(1997), 298 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.280-283, abbrev. p.284-287, glossary p.288-298
ISBN 92-3-103428-6
"The purpose of producing a second edition of the World Communication Report was pragmatic: the aim was to provide a reference work for decision-makers, planners, researchers, students, media professionals and the general public. In view of the scope of the subjects covered and the rapid outdating o...
Ethics in advertising
Nairobi:
Paulines Publications Africa
(1997), 23 pp.
"Many women and men professionally engaged in advertising do have sensitive consciences, high ethical standards and a strong sense of responsibility. But even for them external pressures — from the clients who commission their work as well as from the competitive internal dynamics of their profess...
The news media, civil war, and humanitarian action
Boulder, Colo.; London:
Rienner
(1996), xi, 123 pp., abbrev. p.106-107, glossary p.108, bibliogr. p.109-110, index
"This brief volume looks at institutional interactions between the news media (both print and electronic) on the one hand, and government policymakers and humanitarian agencies on the other. Case studies from Liberia, Northern Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Haiti, and Rwanda distill some of t...
Radio priest: Charles Coughlin, the father of hate radio
New York:
Free Press
(1996), ix, 376 pp., bibliogr. p.352-363, index
"For me, growing up in Detroit, Coughlin was a fascinating figure of local lore: both loved and hated, he was clearly someone whose career cannot be reduced to a single dimension. It may well be argued that the conventional standards of biography should not be applied to media figures, for theirs is...
Mass media in sub-Saharan Africa
Indianapolis, Indiana:
Indiana University Press
(1995), 294 pp., bibliogr. p.270-287, index
ISBN 0-253-31250-7; 0-253-20938-2
"Bourgault investigates three principal influences: the pre-colonial legacy of the oral tradition, the presence of an alienated managerial class, and the domination of African nations by systems based on political patronage. The first two chapters provide the theoretical framework. Subsequent chapte...
Osteuropa: Medienlandschaft im Umbruch. Berichte und Analysen aus neun Ländern
Berlin:
Vistas
(1994), 155 pp.
ISBN 3-89158-128-9
"Über die Wandlungsprozesse, die derzeit in der osteuropäischen Medienlandschaft stattfinden, ist wenig bekannt. Die Diskussion und die Entwicklung in allen ehemaligen Ostblockländern ist von besonderem wissenschaftlichen Interesse und von praktischer Bedeutung - auch vor dem Hintergrund der gesa...
A passion for radio: radio waves and community
Montreal; New York:
Black Rose Books
(1992), 212 pp.
ISBN 90-5638-0834 (ebook); 1-895431-35-2 (hbk); 1-895431-34-4 (pbk)
Other Editions: also published in French and Spanish
"The primary objective of this book is to present a wide range of community radio projects, not so that the “ideal” model can be identified, but in the hope that the book will serve as a useful tool for community broadcasters and potential community broadcasters looking to create or adapt models...
Cultura de masas y cultura popular en la radio peruana: diagnóstico para construir una alternativa radial
Lima:
Calandria; Tarea
(1990), 238 pp.
"Mediante esta recopilación de artículos, Calandria pretende aportar diversas reflexiones sobre el papel que la radio viene desempeñando en nuestro país, tanto a nivel masivo, como en los esfuerzos por construir radios alternativas de carácter popular. Se demuestra así, como el medio no es un ...
Communication theory: the Asian perspective
Singapore:
Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC)
(1988), xiv, 214 pp.
ISBN 9971-905-29-9
"Many of the essays in this volume seek to interpret traditional Asian approaches to communication in the light of modern Western concepts. At one level, this might appear to compromise the integrity of the Asian approaches. However, it needs to be stressed that this is a calculated strategy on the ...
Radio y comunicación popular en el Perú
Lima:
Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
(1987), 319 pp., tables
"Presenta un perfil global de la evolución de la radio en el país. Se analiza su desarrollo histórico y sus características actuales, relevando las preferencias radiales y musicales de los oyentes populares de Gran Lima y el impacto de este medio masivo en el mundo campesino. Atención especial ...
Third World film making and the West
Berkeley:
University of California Press
(1987), xiii, 381 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.327-361, index
ISBN 0-520-05667-1; 0-520-05690-6
"This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output ...
Deutschland und Lateinamerika: Imagebildung und Informationslage
Frankfurt am Main:
Vervuert
(1987), 143 pp., tables
ISBN 3-921600-60-X
World broadcasting systems: a comparative analysis
Belmont:
Wadsworth
(1985), xix, 457 pp., abbrev., glossary p.403-420, bibliogr. p.421-438, index
ISBN 0-534-04734-3
"Instead of describing typical systems in their entirety ...," says Head in his foreword, "I decided to organize the text on the basis of the common problems faced by all systems" to show the basic, universal demands and dilemmas they all must face as each interacts with its particular national sett...
Ultima Hora: un periódico en las encrucijadas de la vida boliviana
La Paz:
Empresa Editora Khana Cruz
(1982), 185 pp.
Estudio comunicacional del periódico Presencia de La Paz
La Paz:
Thesis Departamento de Ciencias de la Comunicación Universidad Católica Boliviana
(1975), 111 pp.
Communications in Africa, vol.1, no. 5
Grahamstown:
Rhodes University
(1974), 42 pp., tables
