"The Islamic sermon is a channel of communication which is well suited to the needs of contemporary Middle Easteners. It is an old Islamic institution with a high degree of legitimacy among the traditional people. Yet the modernizing ruling elites can control it and feed into it modern messages whic
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h the preachers warp in the legitimacy myths of the traditional people. Thus the sermon is one way by which the ruling elites can communicate across the communication gap to the traditional people." (Page 381)
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"Anthology, prepared for UNESCO, which provides the first general view of the cinema in the Arab world. It is divided into six sections: the cinema and Arab culture, history of the Arab cinema, geography of the Arab cinema, problems and future development, recommendations, film lists and statistics.
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" (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1456)
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"There is statistical evidence to show that the expansion of a nation's economy is paralleled by the expansion of its media. Almost 70 per cent of the world's population, spread over 100 countries, does not have basic mass information facilities. These areas are always underdeveloped and lack facili
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ties for formal education. It is a principle of the United Nations that freedom of information is a basic human right, and that is the reason for this report. It describes past efforts, both by special agencies and by United Nations organs, to develop information media, and sketches the problems of developing information media in society, focusing on the problems as they exist in South East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and other areas. It offers recommendations, first in general terms, and then according to media: news agencies, press, radio, film, and television. The report concludes with a discussion about financing a development program. References are provided." (https://eric.ed.gov)
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