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DW Handbuch 85/86 für internationalen Kurzwellenrundfunk
Köln: Deutsche Welle (1985), 165 pp.
Children's Book Production and Distribution in Developing Countries
Nicosia: Cyprus Association on Books for Young People (1985), 230 pp.
"The proceedings of the 19th Congress of the International Board on Books for Young People, 9-14 October 1984, held in Nicosia, Cyprus. Includes contributions from all over the world, including papers on children’s book publishing in Africa." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Sahar
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A World of Difference: The International Distribution of Information. The Media and Developing Countries
Paris: UNESCO (1985), 114 pp.
"This study is especially interesting because Garbo, a Norwegian, writes not only from his own association with the United Nations, UNESCO and the International Programme for the Development of Communication, but also from a broad knowledge of flow-of-information literature. The story of his involve
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Information, Ideology and Communication: The New Nations' Perspectives on an Intellectual Revolution
Lanham, Md.: University Press of America (1985), 219 pp.
"In calm and reasoned prose that digs beneath the surface, Gibbons explores the relationship between the rich and poor countries - the have's and have not's - which has resulted from an enormous gap in information technology. His aim is to create a better understanding between the old order and the
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World Communications: A Handbook
New York: Longman (1984), xv, 527 pp.
"Brings together 54 articles on research and policy on communications in the "three worlds" by scholars and policy makers from the U.S., Western Europe, the socialist countries including the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, and the developing world, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America - 25 countri
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Transnational Data Flows in the Information Age
Lund; Bromley, Kent (UK): Studentlitteratur AB; Chartwell-Bratt (1984), 115 pp.
"Because data is the raw-stuff of information, and information is of primary importance in national development, the free flow of data becomes increasingly necessary for social development. In 'Transnational Data Flows in the Information Age' Hamelink looks closely at its worldwide distribution and
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Information Technology and a New International Order
Lund; Bromley, Kent: Studentlitteratur AB; Chartwell-Bratt (1984), 141 pp.
"Papers from an international conference held by the Protestant Academy of Arnoldshain (Schmitten, Federal Republic of Germany), the Protestant Association for Media Communication (Frankfurt, FRG) and the World Association for Christian Communication (London), with the common theme that all people a
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Problems of the Book Trade Infrastructure in Developing Countries in Relation to University Library Objectives
IFLA Journal, volume 10, issue 4 (1984), pp. 357-369
"The article examines the situation of authors and publishers in developing countries: Lack of competent authors, of paper, of machinery, but also lack of scientific reputation of publishers characterize the situation; lack of foreign exchange limits the purchase of foreign books, making it difficul
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Medienmacht im Nord-Süd-Konflikt: Die Neue Internationale Informationsordnung
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (1984), 441 pp.
Foreign News and the New World Information Order
Ames: Iowa State University Press (1984), 243 pp.
"In the debate between the developing and developed world over the function and structure of the mass media, this collection consolidates and interprets primary findings of an international study funded by the U.S.I.A. that analyzes content and dissemination of foreign news by the mass media of 17 T
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Transnationals and the Third World: The Struggle for Culture
South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey (1983), 184 pp.
"The United Nations, through the Center on Transnational Corporations, commissioned two separate reports on the sociocultural impact of transnational firms on developing countries. One was to analyze the positive impact; the other, the negative. Both reports were "to allow foundations for policies w
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Planning and Organising Reading Campaigns: A Guide for Developing Countries
Paris: UNESCO (1983), 75 pp.
"A companion volume to Ralph Staiger’s “Roads to Reading” (1979), now inevitably rather dated, but still provides helpful guidelines and strategies for planning successful reading campaigns." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2223)
Information, Economics, and Power: The North-South Dimension
London: Hodder and Stoughton (1983), 156 pp.
"Essays on the political economy of information which show how the management of complex new technological sources dramatically alter the nature of international business, adding a new dimension to trade and posing increased difficulties to developing countries. Authors analyzing the problem and sug
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Cultural Autonomy in Global Communications: Planning National Information Policy
New York: Longman (1983), xiv, 143 pp.
"In 'Cultural Autonomy in Global Communications' Hamelink feels that cultural diversity, so necessary for development in the Third World, is being increasingly threatened by large-scale export of the cultural system of advanced industrial states and must be countered by new models of development esp
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Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation
Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press (1982), 147 pp.
"Third Cinema filmmakers equate film with a weapon and view the act of filming as more than a political act," says Gabriel in this explanation of a new cinematic movement based on the rejection of traditional Hollywood films in favor of those of social and political relevance, especially where the T
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