| Abstract: | THE GLOBAL MEDIA: THE NEW MISSIONARIES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM by Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney (London and Herndon, VA: Cassell, 1997—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–304–33434–0, 262 pp., notes, index) BROADCASTING LAW AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS by Rachael Craufurd Smith (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997—£45.00, ISBN 0–19–826221–3,274 pp., notes, appendices, bibliography, index) THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ROADS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY edited by Herbert Kubicek, William H. Dutton, and Robin Williams (New York: St. Martin's Press/Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1997—$49.95, ISBN 0–312–16569–2 (St. Martin's); 3–593–35739–9 (Campus Verlag), 372 pp., notes, references, tables, charts, abbreviations, index) ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE by David Crystal (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997—$19.95, ISBN 0–521–59247‐X, 150 pp., maps, charts, bibliography, index) |
