Global Information and World Communication: New Frontiers in International Relations

Přední strana obálky
SAGE, 5. 5. 1997 - Počet stran: 270
The new edition of this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Hamid Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations.

Extensively rewritten and revised, Global Information and World Communication deals with the phenomenon of global information flow in all contexts - political, economic, cultural, technological, legal and professional. Mowlana illustrates how different communication strategies and systems have contributed to the creation of powerful interests and have altered the global scene. He takes into account recent events and sho

 

Obsah

A Framework
23
Designing the Worlds Symbolic
40
National and International
66
From Books to Computers
90
Transnational Data Flows
107
Planetary Resource Information Flow
123
Travel and Tourism
131
Impact and Effects
143
Implications for National and International
182
From Modernization to Postmodernity and Beyond
189
Knowledge Affluence and Information Hunger
197
From Functionalism
207
The Crisis Of Our Age
234
Bibliography
247
Index
261
208
262

Developing Communication
168

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O autorovi (1997)

Hamid Mowlana is Professor of International Relations, and the founding director of the Division of International Communication at the School of International Service, The American University, Washington DC, since 1968. He is President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

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