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Television Coverage of the Middle East

William C. Adams

Norwood, New Jers.: Ablex (1981), 167 pp.

"Eight previously unpublished studies which examine patterns of coverage and summarize attitudinal findings. The first chapter is a summary of content findings in later chapters, with more detailed discussion of coverage of Afghanistan and Iran; the next five chapters center upon Israel and Arab nat ... more

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Mass Media and Social Change

Elihu Katz, Tamás Szecskö (eds.)

Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage (1981), 271 pp.

"A compilation of the papers of Symposium VII of the 9th World Congress of Sociology whose central theme asks whether the mass media should be agents of change or agents of the status quo. Central to the articles are discussions from varying viewpoints as to the nature of news and the factors that s ... more

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Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism

Jeffrey K. Hadden, Charles E. Swann

Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley (1981), xxi, 217 pp.

"The co-authors - Swann, an ordained Presbyterian rninister who is currently managing WRFK-FM for the Virginia Theological Seminary, and Hadden, a professor of religious sociology at the University of Virginia - have made an intensive and critical study of religious broadcasting - examining its root ... more

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Mass Communication and Development of Socialism in Tanzania

Nkwabi Ng'wanakilala

Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House (1981), 149 pp.

"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 ... more

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The World News Prism: Changing Media, Clashing Ideologies

William A. Hachten, Harva Hachten

Ames: Iowa State University Press (1981), 133 pp.

"This book describes and analyzes the dramatically altered role of today's transnational news media in the technetronic age," says Hatchen, who probes how the current clashes and disputes over international communication between the West, the Socialist nations, and the Third World affect transnation ... more

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Broadcasting Around the World

William E. McCavitt

Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books (1981), 336 pp.

"Description of broadcasting systems in 18 countries: South Africa, Poland, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Guyana, India, Federal Republic of Germany, Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Australia. Each chapter has been written by an individua ... more

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U.S. International Book Programs 1981

John Y. Cole (ed.)

Washington, DC: Library of Congress (1981), 61 pp.

"The Library of Congress' Center for the Book surveys 32 book and book-related programs carried out by governmental, inter-governmental and private agencies in the U.S. to promote books and reading. In an introductory essay John B. Putnam discusses "The Book Crisis in the Developing World," and an a ... more

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Unequal Opportunities: The Case of Women and the Media

Margaret Gallagher

Paris: UNESCO (1981), 221 pp.

"Gallagher has brought together research results culled from hundreds of worldwide reports (many of them in mimeographed forms), articles, fugitive materials, and a lesser number of books (which are much scarcer), to address certain basic questions about the relationship between women and the media. ... more

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Electronic Colonialism: The Future of International Broadcasting and Communication

Thomas L. McPhail

Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage (1981), 259 pp.

"Much of the writings about the New World Information Order (NWIO) is heated, with rhetoric by the Western industrialized nations and the Third World countries governed by their differing viewpoints in the context of their disparate pasts and conflicting philosophies. McPhail approaches the debate w ... more

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The News Agency in the System of Mass Media

Prague: International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) (1980), 64 pp.

"An analysis of news agencies as part of the information system, by journalists from the Eastern Bloc countries." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: Univer ... more

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Communication Methods to Grassroots Participation: A Summary of Research Findings from Latin America, and an Annotated Bibliography

Jeremiah O'Sullivan-Ryan, Mario Kaplun

Paris: UNESCO (1980), 155 pp.

"A survey of the various communication strategies through which the Latin American people as a whole can participate in national development and which gives the Latin American perspective toward the problem. It tells the role of international aid agencies, lists and discusses participatory projects ... more

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Mass Media and the Transnational Corporation: A Study of Media-Corporate Relationship and its Consequences for the Third World

Basskaran Nair

Singapore: Singapore University Press (1980), 172 pp.

"Do negative news reports on Third World countries have an adverse effect on the business climate, diverting transnational corporation investment away from those countries? In an exploratory study Nair has investigated the question, using data collected through library research and interviews with 3 ... more

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The American Media and the Arabs

Michael C. Hudson, Ronald G. Wolfe (eds.)

Washington, DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University (1980), 103 pp.

"Articles derived from a symposium at Georgetown University, organized around four main themes: popular perception of Islam and the Arabs; Arab stereotyping in television entertaining; practices and constraints in American journalism; and American journalists in the Arab world. In a concluding artic ... more

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Made to Measure: Children's Books in Developing Countries

Anne Pellowski

Paris: UNESCO (1980), 129 pp.

"A part of UNESCO's efforts within the framework of the International Year of the Child, this small book is both an explanation of standard book publishing procedures intended for the uninitiated in the Third World and, more instructively and interestingly to the initiated, discussions by Third Worl ... more

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Mongolia and its Mass Media

D Niamsuren, Urzhinbadam D.

Prague: International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) (1980), 48 pp.

"The aim of this booklet is not only to inform; we tried in the first place to give a journalistic view of a country, that only some decades ego was a backward feudal country and by now is able to regard with satisfaction the remarkable results of its socialist construction," explains the editor. Tw ... more

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Communication in the Eighties: A Reader on the "McBride Report"

Cees Hamelink (ed.)

Rome: IDOC International (1980), 61 pp.

"Offers critical reflections intended to contribute to an understanding of important points that the MacBride Report "rightfully stressed or unfortunately omitted." Contributors include Alfred Opubor, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Tamàs Szecsko, Rafael Roncagliolo, Oswalda Capriles, Nabil H. Dajani, Eapen K ... more

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Women in the Media

Paris: UNESCO (1980), 119 pp.

"During International Women's Year in 1975 one of the problems studied was the role of women vis-a-vis the media. This slim book approaches the problem eclectically: Part I. "Inquiry on Participation of Women in Radio, Television and Film in Four Countries (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and Unit ... more

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Indian Publishing Since Independence

D. N. Malhotra, Narendra Kumar (eds.)

Delhi: Bookman's Club (1980), 182 pp.

"An anthology whose articles, written by members of the Bookman's Club of Delhi, when taken together review the status of book publishing in today's India. Among topics: regional language publishing; Hindi publishing; educational publishing; paperback publishing; children's books publishing; profess ... more

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Educational Publishing in Developing Countries

New Dehli: National Book Trust (1980), 284 pp.

"Report of a four-day Seminar on Educational Publishing in Developing Countries organized in connection with the Third World Book Fair, 1978, in which 83 participants from 24 countries, representing the public and private sectors in developed as well as developing countries, discussed relevant aspec ... more

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The International News Agencies

Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage (1980), 284 pp.

"A systematic inquiry into world news agencies, with a focus on the relationship between those of the developed and developing world. Boyd-Barrett examines the four major Western-based news agencies in particular - Reuters, the Associated Press, United Press International and Havas Agence France Pre ... more