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Issue #2 as well as supplement added at the end.
Communication Research Trends:
The New International Information Order
vol. 1 no. 2 1980
Research Trends in Religious Communication:
The Church and the New International Information Order
vol. 1 no. 2 1980
Abstract
In the Nineteenth Century the lines of international communication tended to follow the paths of the NorthAtlantic empires. The cartel of European and American news agencies divided up the world according to the political and economic spheres of influence of the day. Reuters in London took the British Empire; Havas in Paris, the Latin world and French-speaking dependencies; Wolff in Berlin, the Scandinavian countries and Eastern Europe; the American Associated Press and United Press followed U.S. expansion. Just as roads held together the Roman Empire, so transoceanic cables, radio frequencies and satellites have been the lifelines of modern empires.
After World War II national liberation movements in Africa, Asia, and now in Latjn America, have changed the political organisation of the world. Yet the old structure of economic and information dependence persists. In this sense the North-Atlantic empires continue today.
The new nations rightly contend that they will not achieve real independence until they build a new pattern of equitable and horizontal communication among themselves. They also must transform an internal communication structure originally built around a traditional elite or a colonial expatriate enclave into a service for indigenous. democratic national growth.
This issue of Communication Research Trends focuses on two aspects of recent .research on the proposed New International Information Order (NIIO): 1) research revealing and defining the causes of Third-World dependency in international communications and. more important. 2) research on the effectiveness of new communication institutions such as the news agency of the Non•Aligned Countries.
Recommended Citation
(1980)
"The New International Information Order,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 1:
No.
2, Article 1.
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