"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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"Die Kommunikationssysteme Indonesiens sind historisch-deskriptiv von den Ursprüngen über die Freiheitsbewegungen bis heute nebst Nachrichtenagenturen und Pressegesetzgebung behandelt. Die Medienstrukturen Presse, Hörfunk, Film und Fernsehen werden auf ihre publizistischen, politischen, kulturell
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en, soziologischen und rechtlichen Merkmale untersucht, analysiert, beurteilt, praxisorientierte Thesen aufgestellt und traditionelle Kommunikation, Comics, Video und Satellitenkommunikation skizziert. Dadurch wird versucht, einen Beitrag zur vergleichenden Kommunikationsforschung und der Verwirklichung der Neuen Internationalen (Kommunikations-) Ordnung zu leisten." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"A UNESCO report headed by Sean MacBride of Ireland in which representatives from Canada, Chile, Columbia, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Tunisia, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia and Zaire were mandated "to study the totality of Communication problems in modern
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society" in order to formulate "a more just and more efficient world information and communication order," keeping in mind particularly the differences among nations in culture and resources. The result of this hard, if not impossible, charge to reconcile divergent viewpoints represents a compromise which can wholly please none of the three worlds, but it does offer a wide-ranging investigation with varying viewpoints. Appendixes include a list of international organizations active in communications, and there are, in addition, a list of about 100 available background papers. Index. For a discussion of the report giving some of its strengths and weaknesses see 'Communication in the Eighties: A Reader on the "MacBride Report"', edited by Cees J. Hamelink. A 244-page paperback abridgement, 'Many Voices, One World', was published in 1984 by UNESCO." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 210)
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"The principal functions of a national communication policy council would include:(l) (a) to promote coherent, national and comprehensive analyses of existing policies and controls and of national communication objectives; to identify the rights, interests, obligations and interdependence of various
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communication institutions within society; to enhance greater efficiency in the application and expenditures of frequently limited economic and physical resources by setting priorities and reducing internal contradictions; to safeguard the rights and interests ofvarious sectors involved in communication enterprises by providing a forum for continuous discussion and clarification; to provide the framework for anticipating changes in media technology, assessing their value for promoting national and international goals, and revealing their harmful effects; to perform a "look out" function to foresee technological innovations on the international scene which may be important, as "quantum jumps" in national communication planning; (e) to identify important international communication policy issues which are constraints on national policy; (f) to ensure national compatibility with international norms and standards: (g) to enable the nation to speak consistently and coherently at international discussions of communication matters, and to recommend appropriate diplomatic action on questions involving international communication." (Introduction, page 9)
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