"Does minority media contribute to ethnic cohesion and cultural maintenance? Or does an ethnic media encourage assimilation into the dominant culture by espousing that culture's products, images, and values? Ethnic Minority Media explores these issues by providing a broad sampling of case studies th
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at span a variety of ethnic minorities and countries. Each case study presents the different cultural, political, and economic conditions that figure prominently in the media's role in ethnic survival or demise. The contributors, many of them internationally regarded journalists, primarily study the print and broadcast media that minorities have established for their communities. They focus on previously neglected minority media in the United States (Hispanic and Native), Great Britain (Welsh), Ireland (Irish), Canada (Native), Australia (Aboriginal), Israel (Romanian), France (Occitan and Basque), Greenland (Inuit), Chile (Native), and Algeria (Berber). They analyze this phenomena on many levels, defining crucial terms, considering different audiences, and contrasting ethnic and mainstream media." (Publisher description)
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"Our aim in this book is to uncover the myths and try to give equal status to alternative interpretations - of history, of current policies and of an alternative practice of radio which we refer to as 'community radio' in a shorthand that has become widely used and abused, but which we elaborate and
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analyse later. We look at both sides of the Atlantic and at the position of radio in Third World countries in many of which the original, Western systems of broadcasting have been found wanting and in some of which alternatives have been developed. The book begins with a discussion of myth and history, and a brief sketch of the three models or types that both define themselves by difference from each other and are engaged in actual struggle: the free market model, the public service model and community radio." (Introduction, page xiii)
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"Twenty-eight experts examine broadcasting in 24 countries in this essay handbook. John Lent takes on Cuba and India; Benno Signitzer and Kurt Luger look at Austria; and Marvin Alisky reports on Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Other included countries are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, the Fede
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ral Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, Sweden, and the United States. According to the introduction, "At present no reference work exists where one can readily ascertain what the broadcast structure is in a given nation and how it came to be. By filling this void, we hope that our work will make a substantial contribution to the field of international broadcasting." This they have done. Most essays include a bibliography; information on history, regulation, economic structure, programming, new technologies, and broadcast reform; and a conclusion and/or forecast. What type of information can be found under "broadcast reform"? In Israel, for example: The reaction against the "leftist mafia," a nickname coined for broadcasters, has been strongly felt in programming and personnel appointment policies. A popular TV satirical program was taken off the air in the late 1970s in response to harsh political criticism. The television prime-time weekly news magazine, broadcast on Friday nights, was cancelled in the mid-1980s on the grounds that the Israeli people should not be exposed to "demoralizing" news on the Sabbath eve." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 445)
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"This book presents the outcome of five case-studies carried out within Unesco's programme on the Contribution of the Media to Promoting Equality between Women and Men and Strengthening Women's Access to and Participation in Communication. More specifically, it forms part of an action centred on the
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Training, Recruitment and Advancement of Women in the Communication Professions. The case-studies on professional women in broadcasting deal with five countries located in both the developing and developed world: Canada, Egypt, Ecuador, India and Nigeria. One of the major preoccupations of Unesco's programme is to increase the access of women to decision-making positions. The obstacles to the movement of women into management and decision-making positions are particularly felt in the field of communication. A comparative analysis of the key issues, personnel policies and practices of five broadcasting organizations in different regions of the world not only furnishes a critique of current policies concerning women but offers proposals for action which could help to overcome barriers to women's access to high-level posts in the media." (Preface)
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"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
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f power. In six parts: "The Formative Functions of Information Technology," "Information, International Relations, and Warfare," "Modes of Cultural Domination and Resistance," "The New Information Order: Struggles and Reconsiderations," "Reconstructing Information Patterns and Practices," and "Meeting the Future: Research and Action." Among the 27 contributors are Cees Hamelink, Tapio Varis, Dallas Smythe, Vincent Mosco, Stuart Ewen, Enrique González Manet, Yassen Zassoursky, William Melody, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Breda Pavlic, George Gerbner and James Halloran. Countries represented by the contributors are Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, India, the United States, the U.S.S.R., Cuba, England, Holland, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Peru, Sri Lanka and Kenya." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 30)
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