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    Mass communications and American empire / Herbert I. Schiller.

    • Title:Mass communications and American empire / Herbert I. Schiller.
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    • Author/Creator:Schiller, Herbert I., 1919-2000.
    • Published/Created:Boulder : Westview Press, 1992.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Communication--United States.
      Mass media--United States.
      Communication, International.
    • Edition:2nd ed., updated.
    • Description:x, 214 pages.
    • Series:Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0813314399
      0813314402 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Foreword to the First Edition / Dallas W. Smythe
      A Quarter-Century Retrospective. The Changing U.S. Corporate Economy. The Main Users of the New Information Technologies. Internationalization of the Corporate Perspective. New Frontiers for the Sales Message: The Former Soviet Sphere. The Less Industrialized World in the Post-Cold War Era. The U.S. and Western Attack on the New International Information Order and Its Supporters. Peering Ahead
      1: Electronics and Economics Serving an American Century
      2: The Rise of Commercial Broadcast Communications. Broadcasting and Economic Development. The Development of Radio in the United States. Educational Radio. Early Television Experience in the United States. Educational Television in the United States
      3: The Domestic Communications Complex, Part One: Militarization of the Governmental Sector. The Evolution of United States Governmental Communication Structures. Military Take-Over of IRAC. Formation of the National Communications System. Militarization of the NCS
      4: The Domestic Communications Complex, Part Two: The Military-Industrial Team. The Impact of Research and Development
      5: Communications for Crisis Management: The Application of Electronics to Counter-Revolution. Communications and Counter-Insurgency. Counter-Insurgency and Space Communications. The Military-Industrial Complex in Space. Current Implementations of Communications for Counter-Insurgency. Resources Employed in Military Communications. The Department of Defense's Domestic Communications Apparatus
      6: The Global American Electronic Invasion. Program Exports. Similar Trend in Motion Picture Industry
      7: The International Commercialization of Broadcasting. The Global Commercialization of Communications Systems
      8: The Developing World Under Electronic Siege. The Mechanics of Cultural Levelling. Efforts at National Self-Protection. The Necessity of Economic Assistance and National Separateness. Is a Program of Communications Protection Realizable?
      9: Comstat and Intelstat: The Structure of International Communications Control. The Geneva Radio Conference of 1963. Formation of an International Space Communications System (Intelstat). The Industrialized World and International Communications. Comstat and the Developing Nations. Conclusions
      10: Towards a Democratic Reconstruction of Mass Communications: The Social Use of Technology.
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