Communication, Development and the Third World: The Global Politics of Information

by RobertL Stevenson, Robert L. Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson

The first book to address two of the foremost issues in international communication: the UNESCO debate over "the New World of Information Order" (NWIO) which attempted to reach a global consensus on the purpose of journalism; and secondly, the place of mass media and telecommunication in the development of third world countries. It traces the growth of these issues from their beginnings in the sixties through the UNESCO declaration on mass media in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819184888
• ISBN13: 9780819184887
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"