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- REVIEW
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- Global Communication and International Relations
-
- _Media Information Australia_, February 1993
- by Peter B. White
- EDUPBW@lure.latrobe.edu.au Wed Nov 4 14:17:48 1992
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- Frederick, Howard H. _Global Communication and International Relations_,
- Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, California, 1993. ISBN 0 534 19344 7
- pp. plus 287, $A34.95. Distributor: Nelson Australia.
-
- The massive increase in the scale and speed of global communications
- poses significant challenges for scholars and policy makers. An
- examination of these issues should be a part of every undergraduate media
- program. Howard Frederick's excellent textbook provides a cogent and
- exhaustive overview of the issues raised by the transborder communication
- of values, attitudes, opinions, information, and data by individuals,
- groups, people, institutions, governments and information technologies.
-
- But he does more than provide an overview of the history and the
- current debates about the nature of global communications. His lucid
- description of the background to, and consequences of the UNESCO debate
- about the free flow of information stands out as a model of scholarship
- which combines political analysis and a concern for cultural values. He
- also provides some interesting avenues for further exploration and
- thinking. The copious references to other primary and secondary material
- provide scholars with ready access to the scholarly and policy oriented
- literature. This is a book which deserves to be incorporated in
- undergraduate programs. It will a significant resource for graduate
- students and other researchers.
-
- END OF REVIEW
-
- Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1993
- ISBN: 0-534-19344-7 Price: $18.95
- To order, call 1-800-354-9706 or send
- email to hfrederick@igc.apc.org for an
- electronic order form.
-
- From the Preface by George Gerbner, Dean-Emeritus of the Annenberg
- School of Communication: "This tour-de-force is timely and necessary.
- The new communication systems [are] shaping not only one's culture and
- perspectives but increasingly one's history and fate. There is no
- more profound and difficult challenge as we approach the twenty-first
- century. This book will help prepare us to meet it."
-
- Howard Frederick's unique book treats international communication in
- an international relations context -- the *first* truly comprehensive study
- of its kind. Frederick's book discusses how the modern media face the
- challenge of promoting peace, building confidence among nations and
- peoples, and strengthening understanding. Accelerated by the rapid
- advances in electronic technologies, global information networks have
- become central to international relations.
-
- _Global Communication and International Relations_ is a challenging
- treatment of communication that discusses all the relevant communications
- issues -- historical, theoretical, and policy-oriented -- and does so in a
- clear, interesting style. Frederick's up-to-date book covers the entire
- gamut of communications controversies and topics in a way that's certain to
- provoke lively discussion. Everything is documented in this comprehensive
- approach that includes more than 100 endnotes within each chapter.
-
- _Global Communication and International Relations_ is a book that is
- both rigorous and applied, and gives instructors an integrated way to
- presenting a complex subject with clarity and completeness.
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-