Communication & culture
Subtitle: a comparative approach
By: Alex S. Edelstein, Youichi Ito, and Hans Mathias Kepplinger; foreword by Maxwell McCombs ; with the collaboration of Leonard Chu ... [et al.].
Contributors: Itō, Yōichi, 1942-; Kepplinger, Hans Mathias, 1943-
Series: Communications; Communications (Annenberg School of Communications (University of Pennsylvania))
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Communication and culture
Other titles: Communication and culture.
Description: One of the first integrated treatments of comparative communications research. Early work in the field compared the uses of symbols by elite newspapers in different countries, the different relationship between the journalist and public opinion, and communication and modernization in different countries. Edelstein traces the development of the major trends in the perspective, and takes a critical look at recent ideas and methods.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 296-331.
Includes index.