
World Communication
Disempowerment & Self-Empowerment
Cees Hamelink(Author)
Zed Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-85649-394-9 (ISBN)
Description
One of the world's leading mass communication researchers here presents an accessible guide to the current state of global communication.
He first sets the scene by exploring the notion of the 'global village'. He looks at how the media, globally, define 'newsworthiness' as well as the machinations of the international media marketplace. The book then presents a full history of world communication - from carrier pigeons to the Internet - exploring the factors that have shaped that history, including technological development and international relations, state manipulation, and the interests of trans-national corporations. The third section explores recent communication trends that have had the most profound effect on the world's people - digitalization, consolidation, deregulation and globalization. Finally, the book looks at the idea of empowerment as applied to communication. It shows how global communication in its current manifestation is profoundly disempowering. The book ends with Professor Hamelink's ideas for changing this and a draft 'People's Communication Charter'.
He first sets the scene by exploring the notion of the 'global village'. He looks at how the media, globally, define 'newsworthiness' as well as the machinations of the international media marketplace. The book then presents a full history of world communication - from carrier pigeons to the Internet - exploring the factors that have shaped that history, including technological development and international relations, state manipulation, and the interests of trans-national corporations. The third section explores recent communication trends that have had the most profound effect on the world's people - digitalization, consolidation, deregulation and globalization. Finally, the book looks at the idea of empowerment as applied to communication. It shows how global communication in its current manifestation is profoundly disempowering. The book ends with Professor Hamelink's ideas for changing this and a draft 'People's Communication Charter'.
Reviews / Votes
'Traces the history of globalization, names corporations which pull the multi-billion dollar strings, and explains the technological developments which make it possible. It's a book packed with facts and insights ... shows what citizens can do about current trends, which makes this book unique.'Michael Traber, World Association for Christian Communication
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-85649-394-9 (9781856493949)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Cees J. Hamelink is professor of international communication at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and president of the International Association for Mass Communication Research.
Content
1. A global village?
2. On the history of world communication
3. Trends in world communication
4. World communication and self-empowerment
Appendix: People's Communication Charter
2. On the history of world communication
3. Trends in world communication
4. World communication and self-empowerment
Appendix: People's Communication Charter