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'A thoughtful reflection on the concept of the state in the context of post-colonial realities and a very uesful historical investigation of imperialism as cultural contact, which in a very timely way calls for the cross-fertilisaton of debates in international communiction by post-colonial studies' - Media Development
List of contents
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
About the author
Peter Golding is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Until July 2015 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University, and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Loughborough University, where he was Head of Social Sciences from 1991-2006. He is Hon. President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association, editor of the European Journal of Communication, and Hon. Sec. of the subject association for the field in the UK (MeCCSA). He chaired the Research Assessment Exercise for the field in the UK in 2008 and 2014. He has published widely on media sociology, the political economy of the media, and on communications and social policy.
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'A thoughtful reflection on the concept of the state in the context of post-colonial realities and a very uesful historical investigation of imperialism as cultural contact, which in a very timely way calls for the cross-fertilisaton of debates in international communiction by post-colonial studies' - Media Development
