"Global Information and World Communication offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. In a full examination of the 'information revolution', Hamid Mowlana deals with this phenomenon in mass communications, telecommunications and new media, and in varying contexts: political, economic, cultural, technological, military, legal and professional." "Global Information and World Communication will be essential reading for students and scholars of communication, media studies, journalism, international relations, political science, sociology and international development." --Book Jacket.

Produced to fill a gap in current knowledge about the state of journalism in Latin America, this timely book chronicles how recent changes toward democratization and privatization in the region have influenced mass media industries and the practice of journalism. Written as a tribute to earlier books about the development and status of Latin American news organizations, this text provides a readable overview of journalism in the area. Unlike those in previous works, these chapters are divided by issues and subject matter instead of by nations and regions. Each chapter concludes with a "spotlight" case study to illustrate the reading material. These features -- along with several easy-to- follow tables, topical examples suitable for class discussions, and a variety of sources including original interviews with media professionals -- all combine to form the most up-to-date book currently available on this constantly changing subject.

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.