Global Information and World Communication
Subtitle: New Frontiers in International Relations
Edition: Second Edition edition
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; Sage
Published: May 5, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780761952572
Subjects: Communication Studies; Cultural studies; International relations; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Politics/International Relations; Communication; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication
First sentence: It was Ibn Khaldum, the great Islamic scholar and social philosopher, who centuries ago stressed that the individual human being cannot secure all the things necessary for his livelihood without cooperation with someone else.
Description: Global Information and World Communication offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. In a full examination of the 'information revolution', Hamid Mowlana deals with this phenomenon in mass communications, telecommunications and new media, and in varying contexts: political, economic, cultural, technological, military, legal and professional.

Global Information and World Communication will be essential reading for students and scholars of communication, media studies, journalism, international relations, political science, sociology and international development.