"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 especially 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)