Cultural Expression in the Global Village

Edited by David Nostbakken & Charles Morrow
Southbound and International Development Research Centre
ISBN: 983-9054-04-X 188 pages 16x24cm US$15.00

The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro called for new and innovative uses of the mass media of communications to bring about a global understanding of the critical issues facing our planet as it approaches the 21st Century. But will adva nces in communications technology help liberate individual and societal cultural expression, for positive ends? Or will the media serve only as forms of manipulation and cultural repression? This anthology draws upon papers presented to a symposium on co mmunications and development which preceded the Conference of the International Institute of Communications in Montreal, Canada.

Its contributors include:

Luis Ramiro Beltran S. Communication For Development in Latin America: A Forty-Year Appraisal
Rafael Roncagliolo Latin America: Peculiarities, Problems, and Proposals
Paul A.V. Ansah An African Perspective
Jacques Habib Sy Communications for Development, Democracy National Independence, and Economic Growth.
Vijay Menon Asian Self-Expression and the Global Village
Michael Laflin Development Communications: An Alernative to What?
Reinhard Keune Some Positive Experiences
Saik-Yoon Chin Asian Development Communications in the 1990s
Anita Anand Development Communicationss: The Sky is the Limit.
Nahum Gorelick Namibian Experience
Patricia Castano Perspectives of an Independent Producer
Tom McPhail The Future of Broadcasting

CONTENTS
Foreword Alain Gourd
Acknowledgment
Introduction David Nostbakken

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Communication For Development in Latin America: A Forty-Year Appraisal
Luis Ramiro Beltran S.
Latin America: Peculiarities, Probelms and Proposals Rafael Roncagliolo
An African Perspective Paul A.V. Ansah
Communications for Development, Democracy, National Independence and and Economic Growth
Jacques Habib Sy
Asian Self-Expression and the Global Village Vijay Menon
Historical Perspective - Discussion

CORRECTING THE IMBALANCE
Development Communications: An Alternative to What? Michael Laflin
Some Positive Experiences Reinhard Keune
Asian Development Communications in the 1990s Anita Anand
Namibian Experience Nahum Gorelick
Perspectives of an Independent Producer Patricia Castano
The Future of Boradcasting Tom McPhail
Correcting the Imbalance - Discussion

CONCLUSIONS
A Global Broadcast Service (WETV)
Participants