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A collection of 14 essays analyzing the debate over systems of information and communication in the world. These tend to confirm the impression that the availability of news from outside national borders has grown, but its distribution is unbalanced and its utilization is limited and uneven. The first part was issued by USIA as a research report "Foreign News and the New World Information Order." Other papers which appeared as convention papers and as part of a Unesco research project discuss the cultural meaning of foreign news, "bad news" and the Third World, a comparative study of Third World elite newspapers, Egypt and Israel in the Arab Press, foreign news in the Western agencies and the determinents of foreign news coverage in the U.S. press. ISBN 0-8138-0706-9 : $19.95.
This thesis investigates a debate that took place from 1975-1985, largely within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), over the international flow of information and news media. This work looks closely at two key phases in the confrontation. The first, taking place from 1975-1980, can be characterized as the rise, and early success, of a Third World movement to create a more equitable flow of information on the global stage. This moment witnessed the successful attempt by nations of the Third World to both politically problematize the imbalanced flow of information, while at the same time to bolster practical and technical avenues of communication. Unesco, under the helm of Director-General Amadou M'Bow, was central in coordinating, funding and lending moral support, both to technical and normative transformations. In this first phase, the Western bloc responded to the Global South with a "Marshall Plan" approach. This plan was characterized by passive negotiation, attempting to delay the more radical Third World voices in the realm of information and media by placating moderate critics; this was enacted by offering a decidedly non-political material transfer of funds, technology and manpower. The second phase of this debate, beginning in 1981, showcases how the Western bloc warded off significant transformations in the realm of information and communication through a successful campaign against the "inappropriately politicized" Global South. Unesco quickly became the main target of opprobrium. The election of Ronald Reagan marked a turning point from American accommodation and engagement to outright hostility and disengagement. The Reagan administration began to pursue legislation and international declarations to coordinate resistance to the normative critiques emanating from the Third World. As this show of force failed to alter the course of Unesco and the Third World, Reagan vowed to withdraw from the agency. The United States officially withdrew its membership on January 1, 1985. In the end, Unesco found itself hamstrung by the precipitous reduction of funding and legitimacy that came with the shocking news of withdrawal. Although the United States was willing to aid and fund the development of media technology and institutions throughout the world - notably through NGOs such as the World Press Freedom Committee and Freedom House - the debate over the "politics" of information was effectively precluded as the neoliberal consensus of "information as commodity" became universally accepted.
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
This text looks at the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). It offers an exploration of the research environment in which news flow and international news content are created. Chapters cover global and human journalism and provide a journalistic agenda for future newswriting.
The new research presented in this volume suggests that general perceptions (cultural, psychological, geographical), allied to the customs and values of journalism, and underpinned by the uses of technology, significantly shape international news. This gives rise to a blend of the old and the new; traditions of cultural centredness and innovative practices; anchorages of place and the rootlessness of globalization. Technology per se has not swept all before it. On the other hand, its uses have altered the means and methods of international news sourcing, construction and dissemination. Consequently, the uptake of technology has contributed to fundamental changes in style and form, and has greatly facilitated cross-cultural exchanges. The category ‘international news’ is now more of a hybrid, as recognized by the BBC and others. The chapters in this book demonstrate that this hybridity is unevenly distributed across geo-political domains, and often across time. Nevertheless, as the contributors to this volume show, the concept of ‘international news’ relies on tightly interwoven elements of orthodox journalism, social media, civic expression and public assembly.
In the face of the continuing economic gap between the industrialized and the developing countries, the Third World began to demand a reorganization of the international economic system—its mechanisms, organizations, purposes—that would make the system responsive to the needs of all of its members. The United Nations’ Sixth Special Session in 1974
In the aftermath of September 11, the nature of international news has resumed a central place in media debates and political analysis. In the first collection of its kind, influential journalists and scholars probe the future of international news. Topics include the conglomerates, ethnocentric imbalances in news reporting, the rise of non-Anglo news channels, approaches for reconstructing the international news agenda, the impacts of new technologies of production and diffusion, international news rhetoric, and audiences' imagination of the "global" and their perceptions of international news coverage. In a dialogue that is both descriptive and prescriptive, this book begins an encounter between media practitioners, activists, and academics, constituencies that have tended to talk past each other but are now beginning to find some shared concerns.