| Abstract: | DEMOCRATIZING COMMUNICATION? COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION AND POWER edited by Mashoed Bailie and Dwayne Winseck (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press “The Hampton Communication Series,”; 1997—$85.00/32.50, ISBN 1–57273–064–1 hard, 1–57273‐O65‐X paper, 450 pp., photos, tables, charts, notes, references, index) INTERNATIONAL MEDAI RESEARCH: A CRITICAL SURVEY edited by John Corner, Philip Schlesinger, and Roger Silverstone (London/New York: Routledge, 1997—$100.00/24.00, ISBN 0–415–09035–0 hard 0–415–18496–7 paper, 238 pp., notes, index) AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY OF BRITISH BROADCASTING by Andrew Crisell (London and New York: Routledge, 1997—£12.99 paper], ISBN 0–415–12802–1 hard, 0–415–12803‐X paper, 280 pp., bibliography, index, chapter recommended readings) THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY RESEARCH SERIES (CRC Press, 2000 Corporate Blvd. NW, Boca Raton, FL 33431) offers three volumes on important Asian countries. Specifically: THE KOREAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Michael Pecht, et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3172–2, 126 pp., tables, charts, references, index). THE SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES by Donald Beane et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3171–4, 103 pp., tables, charts, references, index). THE TAIWAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Chung‐Shing Lee and Michael Pecht (1997—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3170–6, 157 pp., tables, charts, references). EUROPEAN MEDIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW (Media Group, Business Research &; Development Centre, Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland fax: 011–358–2‐3383–515 or e‐mail: mmr@tukkk.fi ]‐$195.00 per year/5 issues, ISSN not given, first issue January 1998) CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION: EASTERN PERSPECTIVES edited by David French and Michael Richards (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage “Communication and Human Values,”; 1996—$52.00/24–95, ISBN 0–8039–9282–3 hard, 0–8039–9283–1 paper, 371 pp., references, tables and figures, index) TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Andrew Hart (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum “LEA's Communication Series,”; 1998—prices not given, ISBN 0–8058–2476–6 hard, 0–8058–2477–4 paper, 208 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index) GETTING TO WAR: PREDICTING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT WITH MASS MEDIA INDICATORS by W. Ben Hunt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997—$49.50, ISBN 0–472–10751–8, 304 pp., tables, charts, appendices, notes, bibliography, index) TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RESTRUCTURING WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS WORLDWIDE edited by Harry C. Katz (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University Press “Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, No. 32,”; 1997— $49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8014–3286–3 hard, 0–8014–8361–1 paper, 401 pp., tables, notes, references, index) SECRET STATE SILENT PRESS: NEW MILITARISM, THE GULF AND THE MODERN IMAGE OF WARFARE by Richard Keeble (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1997—£14.95, paper, ISBN 1–860–20–539, 222 pp., bibliography, index) EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION: WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? edited by Manfred Meyer (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media “Communication Research and Broadcasting, No. 12,”; 1997—$32.00 paper, ISBN 1–86020–528–3, 246 pp., photos, tables, diagrams, notes, abbreviations) INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALIZATION: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION edited by Ali Mohammadi (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997—$75.00/26.95, ISBN 0–7619–5553–4 hard, 0–7619–5554–2 paper, 228 pp., notes, bibliography, index) TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN WESTERN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EASI edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1997—$55.00, ISBN 0–19–510202–9, 244 pp., tables, charts notes, references, index) TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1998—$65.00, 1SBN0–19–510200–2, 265 pp., tables, chapter references, index) ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR GOVERNMENT (Paris: Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development “STI: Science, Technology, Industry,”; 1997—$9.00 paper, ISBN 92–64–15512–0, 84 pp., annex, notes) MEDIA COURSES UK edited by Lavinia Orton (London: British Film Institute/Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997 5th ed.]—$15.95, paper, ISBN 0–85170–649–5, 230 pp., appendices, index) MEDIA LAW AND REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: NATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL, AND U.S. PERSPECTIVES by Emmanuel E. Paraschos (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1998—$44.95, ISBN 0–8138–2807–4, 288 pp., notes, bibliography, index) STATISTICAL YEARBOOK ‘98: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE (European Audiovisual Observatory, 76 Allee de la Robertsau, F‐67000 Strasbourg, France—890ff or about $150.00, paper, ISBN 92–871–3590–8, 412 pp., charts, tables, notes) CHANGING CHANNELS—THE PROSPECTS FOR TELEVISION IN A DIGITAL WORLD edited by Jeanette Steemers (Luton, England: John Libbey Media, University of Luton Press, 1998—£14.95, ISBN 1–86020–544–5, 156 pp., figures, bibliography, index) NETWORK COMPETITION FOR EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Oliver Stehmann (Oxford University Press, 1995—£40.00, ISBN 0–19–828925–1, 327 pp., figures, tables, glossary, index) |
