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"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
"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
"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
"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
"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

Mass Media in West Africa: A Bibliographic Essay

In: Mass Communication, Culture and Society in West Africa
Oxford: Hans Zell Publishers (1985), pp. 285-308
"How have the overthrow of the Somoza regime in 1979 and a new and very different political approach to government affected Nicaragua's communication system? To discover the effects the author has studied not only the structure and development of the communication system - print, broadcasting and fi ... more
"The first half places African mass communications in a broad social context, touching on their history, technology, politics, etc.; the second half consists of three case studies: Zambia, Tanzania and Nigeria. A final chapter discusses roles and controls. The North African countries are not include ... more
"Analyzes media systems from the viewpoints of the West, the Communist countries, and those developing countries lumped together as the Third World. Six key concepts or functions of the media are treated: the concept of news; the concept of the role of the mass media; the educational, persuasive and ... more
"Die Kommunikationssysteme Indonesiens sind historisch-deskriptiv von den Ursprüngen über die Freiheitsbewegungen bis heute nebst Nachrichtenagenturen und Pressegesetzgebung behandelt. Die Medienstrukturen Presse, Hörfunk, Film und Fernsehen werden auf ihre publizistischen, politischen, kulturell ... more
"After providing an overview of the Singapore society and its communication system as background, the coauthors examine the main aspects of communication policy in Singapore, and conclude with a case study of communication planning at the Radio and Television Singapore and the Singapore Family Plann ... more
"Against a background of the historical, religious, geographical, climatic, political, economic and linguistic factors that make radio and television unique as they affect its development, Boyd discusses broadcasting in the Arab League countries - Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordon, North Yeme ... more
"Country chapters identify and describe major and selected specialized newspapers and mass circulating magazines. Tables provide basic information for the dailies. Each chapter also carries a discussion of press laws, censorship, state-press relations, and attitudes toward foreign media. Detailed su ... more
"This is a survey of the state of the press in 180 countries, organized in four sections: Section I, "The International Press"; Section II, "The World's Developed Press Systems"; Section III, "Smaller and Developing Press Systems, " and Section IV, " Minimal and Underdeveloped Press Systems." Covera ... more

Mass Communication in China

New York: Longman (1982), xvii, 160 pp.
"An inside look at the media since the fall of Mao Tse Tung, based largely on first-hand evidence the author collected on the spot. After an analysis of the role of communications in today's China, Howkins deals with the various media - broadcasting, film, publishing, telecommunications (''From Beac ... more