Global Information and World Communication: New Frontiers in International Relations [Paperback]

The new edition of this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Hamid Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations.

Extensively rewritten and revised, Global Information and World Communication deals with the phenomenon of global information flow in all contexts - political, economic, cultural, technological, legal and professional. Mowlana illustrates how different communication strategies and systems have contributed to the creation of powerful interests and have altered the global scene. He takes into account recent events and shoThe new edition of this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Hamid Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations.

Extensively rewritten and revised, Global Information and World Communication deals with the phenomenon of global information flow in all contexts - political, economic, cultural, technological, legal and professional. Mowlana illustrates how different communication strategies and systems have contributed to the creation of powerful interests and have altered the global scene. He takes into account recent events and sho`Benefitting from more than three decades of intense international communication study, Mowlana has systematically chosen theories, approaches and findings from many academic disciplines; carefully synthesized and analyzed their major tenets and implications; and neatly packaged them in one of the most comprehensive, insightful, and critically prescriptive volumes in the burgeoning field. The author has expanded the discourse, coverlã%