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Communication and Domination: Essays to Honor Herbert I. Schiller

Jörg Becker, Göran Hedebro, Leena Paldén (eds.)

Herbert I. Schiller (honoured person)

Norwood, NJ: Ablex (1986), x, 278 pp.

"Scholars from various countries of the socialist and capitalist - the developing and developed - world, and representing many of the disparate areas that make up the interdisciplinary field of communication, have contributed articles centering around Schiller's dominant theme - the use and misuse o ... more

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Behind the Lines: The Private War on Censorship

Donald R. Shanor

New York: St. Martin's Press (1985), 179 pp.

"An examination of the unofficial news networks used by Soviet citizens to penetrate official control of information, along with an investigation of the officially controlled media to show the reasons for their weaknesses, both organizational and technological." ( ... more

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Media and Dependency in South Africa: A Case Study of the Press and the Ciskei "Homeland"

Les Switzer

Columbus: Ohio State University, Monographs in International Studies (1985), 72 pp.

"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 ... more

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The New International Economic Order: Links Between Economics and Communications

Breda Pavlic, Cees J. Hamelink

Paris: UNESCO (1985), 65 pp.

"In tracing and analyzing the relationship between economics and communication with reference to the Third World, the authors define the obstacles caused by inequalities and imbalances standing in the way of a new economic order and describe various perspectives on the problems, along with suggestio ... more

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Media in Latin America and the Caribbean: Domestic and International Perspectives

Walter C. Soderlund, Stuart H. Surlin (eds.)

Windsor, Ontario: University of Windsor, Ontario Cooperative Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1985), 272 pp.

"Report of 14 papers presented at the proceedings of the Ontario Cooperative Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, organized under four thematic sections: the New World Information Order and the MacBride Report; media performance in Latin America and the Caribbean; media coverage of Latin ... more

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Print and Broadcast Media in the South Pacific

Romeo B. Abundo

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC);UNESCO (1985), xii, 79 pp.

"A UNESCO project designed to study "methods of establishing community newspapers in remote islands of the Pacific in conjunction with other community media, notably radio." An overview of the region gives background, the status and problems of broadcasting and print media, and recommandations, foll ... more

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International Flow of Information: A Global Report and Analysis

Hamid Mowlana

Paris: UNESCO (1985), 75 pp.

"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 ... more

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Press Laws and Systems in ASEAN States

Abdul Razak (ed.)

Jakarta: Confederation of Asean Journalists, Gedung Dewan Pers (1985), 458 pp.

"A survey of press laws in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, this handbook presents the information in two parts: (1) a descriptive survey of the press system for each country, and (2) transcripts of the national laws. A final chapter compares the five national systems. ... more

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Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture

Harold E. Hinds Jr.;Tatum, Charles M.

Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press (1985), xvi, 259 pp.

"Contributors discuss popular religion, popular music, comics, television, sports, photo-novels, film, festivals and carnivals, cartoons and newspapers. Most of the approaches are critical-methodological within the various disciplines of the writers, including literature, cultural anthropology, soci ... more

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Seventy Years of International Broadcasting

Bernard Bumpus, Barbara Skelt

Paris: UNESCO (1985), 117 pp.

"Traces the history of international broadcasting - broadcasting outside national frontiers - from the early days of radio to the present, with a look at the impact of these broadcasts and how they can be measured. The authors also examine some of the problems inherent in the practice, including jam ... more

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Mass Media and Rural Development: Study of Village Communication in Bihar

Arbind K. Sinha

New Delhi: Concept (1985), 134 pp.

"India has to reach to the level, where it can provide food, clothing, and shelter to each individual, within the shortest possible time. Thus, it has become necessary to gear up the developmental process in India, where almost 80 percent of the population lives in rural areas isolated from the urba ... more

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Development of Communication in the Arab States: Needs and Priorities

Yahya Abu Bakr, Saad Labib, Hamdy Kandil

Paris: UNESCO (1985), 60 pp.

"Taking a broad view, this report focuses on the need for communication planning and for recognition by Arab countries that communication must be placed in the larger context of comprehensive development planning. Several sections also consider the importance of developing capacity for production of ... more

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Publishing in the Third World: Knowledge and Development
Top Insights

Philip G. Altbach, Amadio A. Aroleda, S. Gopinathan (eds.)

Portsmouth, New Hampsh.; London: Heinemann;Mansell (1985), xii, 226 pp.

"An in-depth look at the "state of the art" of book publishing in the Third World which examines not only the nuts and bolts but also its status as an important part of the knowledge distribution system. The first 50 pages discuss the status of textbook publishing, copyright, and distribution; the r ... more

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Information, Ideology and Communication: The New Nations' Perspectives on an Intellectual Revolution

Arnold Gibbons

Lanham, Md.: University Press of America (1985), 219 pp.

"In calm and reasoned prose that digs beneath the surface, Gibbons explores the relationship between the rich and poor countries - the have's and have not's - which has resulted from an enormous gap in information technology. His aim is to create a better understanding between the old order and the ... more

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A World of Difference: The International Distribution of Information. The Media and Developing Countries

Gunnar Garbo

Gail Adams Kvam (collab.)

Paris: UNESCO (1985), 114 pp.

"This study is especially interesting because Garbo, a Norwegian, writes not only from his own association with the United Nations, UNESCO and the International Programme for the Development of Communication, but also from a broad knowledge of flow-of-information literature. The story of his involve ... more

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Cuban Image: Cinema and the Cultural Politics in Cuba

Michael Chanan

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1985), 314 pp.

"Cuban Image is written from a Marxist perspective. "If anyone wants to call this book a partisan history, I will make no apology for it, " Chanan says of this study of Cuban film and its place in the social and political structure, which resulted from his visit there at the invitation of the Cuban ... more

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China Press and Publishing Directory, 1985

Guo-Gan Gao (ed.)

Beijing; London: Modern Press;Longman (1985), 360 pp.

"[...] this directory is the first of its kind ever published in China, the only reference tool so far available in this respect," says Wang Yi, Advisor to the Bureau of Publishing Administration, Ministry of Culture. It contains 2,353 entries of publishers, booksellers, newspapers and periodicals t ... more

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World Broadcasting Systems: A Comparative Analysis
Quick Overview

Sydney W. Head

Belmont: Wadsworth (1985), xix, 457 pp.

"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 ... more

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A Filmography of the Third World, 1976-1983: An Annotated List of 16mm Films

Helen W. Cyr

Metuchen, New Jers.: Scarecrow (1985), 275 pp.

"Provides titles with annotations, producer, length, date, distributor and whether color or black/white for films about the undeveloped areas of the world and also - although the title does not indicate this - major ethnic minorities in the northern nations of North America and Europe. Among the top ... more

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Women of Color: A Filmography of Minority and Third World Women

Maryann Oshana

New York: Garland (1985), 338 pp.

"This book aims to acquaint the reader with English-language films whose characters include a woman of color, specifically an American woman character who belongs to a minority group or a woman of the Third World," explains Oshana. Even, as in many cases, when the role is played by a white woman, it ... more

Publishing in the Third World: Knowledge and Development Top Insights

World Broadcasting Systems: A Comparative Analysis Quick Overview

Publishing in the Third World: Knowledge and Development
Top Insights

World Broadcasting Systems: A Comparative Analysis
Quick Overview