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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

Edward W. Said

New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 2nd ed. (1997), lxx, 200 pp.

"This is far more than an analysis of the way the U.S. covers the Islamic world. A penetrating study by a scholar and a humanist it goes much deeper than an examination of what he considers a biased treatment of Islamic news by the American press. Using illustrations from the media, he makes the poi ... more

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Mass Media Bibliography: An Annotated Guide to Books and Journals of Research and Reference

Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit

Urbana, Illin.; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 3rd ed. (1990), 344 pp.

"The new classic. Containing 1,947 annotated entries, with most of the new titles published between 1980-1987. Blum is now professor emeritus of library science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and recipient of the Association of Journalism and Mass Communications's first Eleanor Bl ... more

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Cuban-American Radio Wars: Ideology in International Telecommunications

Howard H. Frederick

Norwood, New Jers.: Ablex (1986), 200 pp.

"Through content analysis Frederick examines the ideological confrontation between the United States and Cuba as seen in their respective international radio newscasts on Voice of America and Radio Havana Cuba, accompanied by detailed explanations of his methodology." (Eleanor Blum, ... more

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Committed Journalism: An Ethic for the Profession

Edmund B. Lambeth

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1986), 208 pp.

"Through an examination of past and present philosophies, case studies, events, and judgments - all of which relate to the news media - Lambeth suggests relevant guides (as distinct from guidelines) for the modern journalist in search of a framework." (Eleanor Blum, ... more

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Communication for All: New World Information and Communication Order

Philip Lee (ed.)

Maryknoll: Orbis Books (1986), 158 pp.

"An anthology sponsored by the World Association for Christian Communication, whose articles examine the MacBride Report and expound the philosophy that communication is a basic human right to be shared by the developing and developed countries alike. There is a 24-page bibliography of books, pamphl ... more

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Public Relations: The Malaysian Experience

Benedict Morais, Hamdan Adnan (eds.)

Kuala Lumpur: Institut Perhubungan Raya Malaysia (Institute of Public Relations) (1986), 259 pp.

"A compilation of articles by Malaysian academicians and public relations professionals from the public and private sectors, intended both as a text and as a survey for the interested layman. In two parts: the first deals with public relations in several types of business, in government and in some ... more

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Making Broadcasting Useful: The African Experience. The Development of Radio and Television in Africa in the 1980s

George Wedell, James Kangwana, Lawrence Lawler (eds.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press;European Institute for the Media (1986), x, 306 pp.

"The second part grew out of the Symposium of Broadcasting Organization and Management held in 1984 at the request of UNESCO, The U.K. Overseas Development Administration, and the British Council, in which a group of directors of broadcasting organizations and permanent secretaries of ministries of ... more

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Philippine Mass Media: A Book of Readings

Clodualdo Del Mundo

Manila: Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) (1986), 286 pp.

"An introduction to the Philippine media, with emphasis on its popular culture aspects - film, radio and television in particular. The various readings present an overview of development; discusses practical economic aspects; makes critical analyses from sociological, political, economic and aesthet ... more

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Communicating in Popular Nicaragua

Armand Mattelart (ed.)

New York; Bagnolet (France): International General (1986), 140 pp.

"Mattelart is one of the best exponents of the Marxist viewpoint in relation to developing nations. 'Communicating in Popular Nicaragua' is a critical anthology of 12 articles by authors from Nicaragua and the United States who give a Marxian analysis of numerous aspects of communication, broadly de ... more

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Global Information and World Communication: New Frontiers in International Relations

Hamid Mowlana

New York: Longman (1986), 248 pp.

"Global Information and World Communication emphasizes culture and communication as fundamental to the process of creating understanding among peoples. In addition to reviewing works by communication researchers, he draws on studies conducted in allied areas - among them economics, political science ... more

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U.S. Broadcasting to the Soviet Union

Ludmilla Alexeyeva

New York; Washington, DC: U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee (1986), 136 pp.

"A commissioned report on the work of the Russian-language broadcasting services of Radio Liberty and the Voice of America by a former Soviet historian who was one of the founders of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee, emigrated to the U.S. and is now a consultant to the U.S. Helsinki Watch Committ ... more

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Women, Media and Crisis: Femininity and Disorder

Michèle Mattelart

London: Comedia (1986), 123 pp.

"This is my first approach to the theme of 'women and the media,' an attempt to elucidate or analyze continuities and ruptures in the way in which the symbolic order processes the relationship between femininity and modernity in normal times, and in times of criais," Mattelart explains in her Forewo ... more

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Bolivia: Press and Revolution 1932-1964

Jerry W. Knudson

Lanham, Md.: University Press of America (1986), x, 488 pp.

"A social history of the interaction between the press and Bolivian society, based on a study of Bolivian newspapers over the 12-year period of the Bolivian National Revolution, during which the press played a great part both in fomenting the revolution and carrying it out. This is both an unfolding ... more

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Press in Chains

Zamir Niazi

Karachi: Karachi Press Club (1986), 252 pp.

"The central theme of this book [about suppressive journalism practices in Pakistan] is the persecution of newspapers and punitive actions taken against dissenting journalists. The first chapter deals with the one and three-quarters of a century of the ruthless repression and suppression under forei ... more

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Indian Broadcasting

H. R. Luthra

New Delhi: Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Publications Division (1986), 531 pp.

"Luthra brings to his history of broadcasting in India more than 50 years of personal involvement, along with documents from the National Archives and correspondence and notes in files at the Directorate General of All India Radio. Emphasis is on the early years because, he says, "very little is now ... more

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The World Book Industry

Peter J. Curwen

London: Euromonitor Publications (1986), 290 pp.

"Contending that book publishing, whether viewed as a business or as an art, needs to be examined on a supra-national level, Curwen combines research and insight to construct a clearer picture that shows "how the pieces of the worldwide book industry fit together." Rather than breaking it down count ... more

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Directory of Asian Mass Communication Institutions

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC), 4th ed. (1986), ?? pp.

"An ongoing series which provides information about 90 mass communication institutions active in research, teaching and training in Asia, including address, telephone number, date founded, aims, activities, names of staff members, and a list of selected research and publications. The countries inclu ... more

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The African Press

Martin Ochs

Cairo: American University Press in Cairo (1986), 138 pp.

"Although a number of books have been written on African journalism, this, according to Ochs, a professor of mass communication at the American University in Cairo, is the first to take an overall look at the continent as a whole, notwithstanding the lack of data and frequent change of ownership whi ... more

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World Broadcasting in the Age of the Satellite

W. J. Howell

Norwood, New Jers.: Ablex (1986), 329 pp.

"A comprehensive and succinct description of the many aspects of world broadcasting which is both descriptive and analytical. Howell puts together concepts, trends, and facts and figures in interesting new patterns. His classification of world broadcasting systems is an example; instead of the class ... more

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On the Screen: A Film, Television, and Video Research Guide

Kim N. Fisher

Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited (1986), xii, 209 pp.

"[...] designed to acquaint the student, researcher, librarian and anyone interested in motion pictures and television with the important English-language reference works in these fields." (Introduction) Fisher has indeed accomplished this. The 731 carefully selected and comprehensively annotated en ... more