"The Ciskei "Homeland" has long been a center of African nationalism and of conflict between whites and blacks. Switzer's examination of the press in this area also shows on a larger national scale, how the South African privately owned commercial press promotes dependency of blacks upon whites by p
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erpetuating the values of the white governing class. The introduction briefly surveys South Africa's communications industry." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 423)
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"How have the overthrow of the Somoza regime in 1979 and a new and very different political approach to government affected Nicaragua's communication system? To discover the effects the author has studied not only the structure and development of the communication system - print, broadcasting and fi
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lm - but also the history and political, socio-economic, cultural and educational system behind it. This is all brought together in a final "Interconnections between Communication and other Subsystems of Nicaragua." Most of the research was done in the country itself through numerous interviews with a wide variety of Nicaraguans. In conclusion is a bibliography which includes books and papers, decrees, and newspapers, newsletters and magazines. This is a very thorough study." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 241)
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"Compara estratégias e formas alternativas de comunicação praticadas por sindicatos e partidos durante a República de Weimar, o governo Allende (Chile 1970-1973), e na Itália 1968-1976." (commbox)
"Mass media in Tanzania are scarce and, as the title implies, their main role is informational and instructional, designed to clarify and develop national direction and consciousness rather than to be a source of entertainment. To this end the author surveys the main communication channels - what th
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ey are, their availability, what they carry, and perhaps most important, how well they fulfill their function to promote the country's ideology and development policies. There are two bibliographies - "Publications on Socialism and Self-Reliance and the Implied Role of Communication," and "On Communication Theory and Practice." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 315)
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"Vol.1: Capitalism, Imperialism (1979); Vol.2: Liberation, Socialism. 'Communication and Class Struggle' is an anthology containing more than 120 articles originating in over 50 countries since the mid-nineteenth century which were selected by the editors to explain three interrelated questions abou
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t the mass communication process from the Marxist viewpoint: 1) how communication is conditioned by basic economic, social, ideological and cultural factors; 2) how capitalistic production affects communication practice and theory in bourgeois society; and 3) how the underprivileged and the working classes have reacted in certain countries by developing their own communication theory and practice. Selected bibliography." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 273)
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"An analysis of the mass media in South Africa as instruments of oppression or liberation and their role in effecting change or perpetuating the status quo. Chimutengwende examines the operation of the press within the South African socio-economic and legislative system and in relation to the blacks
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' struggle for liberation, ending with conclusions as the role of the press in affecting change or maintaining the status quo. For the latter he has drawn heavily on communication theory. This is a measured and well-reasoned study that challenges some Western concepts of freedom of the press. Emphasis is on print media." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 66)
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