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The Future of the Mass Audience
This book focuses on how the changing technology and economics of the mass media in post-industrial society will influence public communication.
The Information Revolution and World Politics
This readable and cogent book provides a much-needed overview of the information revolution in a global context. First tracing the historical evolution of communications since the development of the printing press, Elizabeth C. Hanson then explores the profound ways that new information and communication technologies are transforming international relations. More people have access to more diverse sources of information than ever before, as well as a greater capacity to influence national and international agendas. More transcontinental channels of contact are available to more people in the world at far less cost than ever before in history. Hanson illustrates how these dramatic changes hav...
Global Television and the Shaping of World Politics
In 1995, United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said of the Cable News Network, “CNN is the sixteenth member of the [15 member United Nations] Security Council.” Scholars as well as diplomats have recognized the existence of a link between communications and diplomacy, but up until now the implications of this relationship have been left unexplored. This work examines the historic interconnectedness between communications and diplomacy, how communications have historically determined the practice of diplomacy, and how global television in particular can determine diplomatic outcomes under certain conditions. This work also examines the ways in which today’s broadcasting will shape foreign policy processes in the future and the future impact of global television in world politics.
Information Technologies and Social Orders
The history of human society, as Carl Couch recounts it in his speculative final book, is a history of successive, sometimes overlapping information technologies used to process the varied symbolic representations that inform particular social contexts. Couch departs from earlier "media" theorists who ignored these contexts in order to concentrate on the technologies themselves. Here, instead, he adopts a consistent theory of interpersonal and intergroup relations to depict the essential interface between the technologies and the social contexts. He emphasizes the dynamic and formative capacities of such technologies, and places them within the major institutional relations of societies of a...
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Handbook for Third World Journalists
The role of Third World journalists and the special situations they encounter is discussed in this volume. The authors analyze and compare news values in the First, Second, and Third Worlds; explain the international flow of information; and examine the role of revolutionary and developmental journalism. Other topics include: the subjects and methods of investigative journalism; broadcast newswriting; broadcasting to serve the needs of rural areas; government-press relations in the Third World; and education and training of journalists. ISBN 0-943089-00-X (pbk.): 80 cents.
Infotrends
A guide to capitalizing on new information technologies. Surveys opportunities presented by changing trends in telecommunications and office automation technology, and cites examples of moneymaking ideas using a company's existing databases and expertise. Actual examples from companies like Sears, Du Pont, GM, and Federal Express. Offers a multitude of ideas that managers can use right away--from retraining employees using videodisks to letting customers tap into a company's database.
Intelligence for Economic Development
Investigates how developing countries can meet the challenge posed by the growth of the knowledge industry in industrialised countries. Examines the evolution of the intelligence function, defined as the organisational capacity of any social institution to acquire and use information in order to adapt in a creative way to new challenges. Argues that a society's long term success is conditioned by the quality of its "social intelligence". Proposes ways of building up a national and corporate intelligence capacity.
