"Contains 11 studies, mainly on information projects, each with between four and eight stories told by people involved in those studies. Each set of stories is prefaced by a summary of the study." (commbox)
"A collection of papers on academic journal publishing and scholarly communication in Africa, which aims to provide a better understanding of the nature, role, current status, and future prospects of journals in the African context. Papers address issues such as the challenges of editing scholarly j
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ournals in Africa, the significance of the new information technology for African journals, African journals in a digital environment, and journals marketing on the Internet. There is also a case study of the “tribulations” and problems encountered by a science journal published in Ethiopia. A paper on Latin America and the Caribbean rounds off the volume, and provides both comparisons and contrasts with Africa." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1917)
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"International Flow of Information synthesizes relevant research by different individuals, institutions and organizations, with special emphasis on the areas of mass media, transborder data flow, and satellites and planetary resources. Mowlana also identifies and evaluates critically major approache
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s, theories, concepts and propositions in an effort to point out problems of analytical integration within the field and problems of interdisciplinary contribution and coherence. Finally, he proposes a framework of analysis to serve as a possible guideline for a methodology to be used in future evaluations." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 307)
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