Communication, Development and the Third World: The Global Politics of Information

This book addresses the issues in international communication: the UNESCO debate over the New World of Information Order (NWIO) which attempted to reach a global consensus on the purpose of journalism and secondly, the place of mass media and telecommunications in the development of Third World countries. The book traces the growth of these issues from their beginnings in the 1960s through the UNESCO declaration on mass media in 1978 into the present decade. Key features of this text include an examination of the role communication plays in countries with differing systems of government and an explanation of the issues that brought UNESCO into the limelight in the 1980s and its importance to the future.