Moving beyond notions of cultural imperialism, this book furthers our understanding of the implications of global media culture and politics in the 1990s.
Leading scholars from a range of fields bring different perspectives to bear on the role of the state, the range of culture beyond the media, the contribution of international organizations, and the potential for resistance and alternatives. They reflect on the `New World International Communications Order' as delineated since the 1970s, and examine its changing nature. Throughout, they connect analysis of the flows and forces which form the world media and communications with the fundamental themes of social science, and illuminate the ways in which underlying questions of inequality, power and control reappear within new media environments.
Foreword - Peter Golding and Phil Harris
Introduction - Peter Golding and Phil Harris
Reflections on the International System - Samir Amin
States of the State and Third Worlds - Tony Barnett
The Many Cultural Faces of Imperialism - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi
MacBride with Hindsight - Cees Hamelink
The Western World and the NWICO - Colleen Roach
United They Stand?
From Optimism to Reality - Mohammed Musa
An Overview of Third World News Agencies
Communication and Global Security - Phil Harris
The Challenge for the Next Millennium
An Inclusive NWICO - Pradip N Thomas
Cultural Resilience and Popular Resistance
The Future of the Debate - Richard C Vincent
Setting an Agenda for a New World Information and Communication Order: Ten Proposals
