Global Information and World Communication

Hamid Mowlana is Professor of International Relations, and the founding director of the Division of International Communication at the School of International Service, The American University, Washington DC, since 1968. He is President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

• World Politics in TransitionNew Frontiers in International RelationsInternational Flow of InformationA Framework of AnalysisNews and ViewsDesigning the World′s Symbolic EnvironmentBroadcasting the WorldNational and International ImagesCultural IndustryFrom Books to ComputersPolitical Economy of InformationTransitional Data FlowsInternational InteractionsTravel and TourismHuman Flow across National BoundariesIntercultural CommunicationInformation TechnologyDeveloping Communication Systems and PoliciesCommunication and DevelopmentThe Emerging OrdersInternational Communication ResearchFrom Functionalism to Post Modernism and BeyondThe Unfinished RevolutionThe Crisis of Our Age

`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, covering a wider swath than the traditional analyses of mass media messages and communication technologies; he includes global dimensions of news and views, broadcasting, culture industries , transborder data flows, travel and tourism, intercultural communication, information technology, communication and development, and research. Mowlana favors enumeration of items, likes to design his own figures and models, and cannot resist giving solutions for international communication dilemmas. He defines terms precisely, regularly points out areas needing further research, and suggests ways the studies can be approached. A refreshing relief from the glut of contemporary uncritical work, this is the book for international communication courses, the one boo, all those enamored with, or otherwise affected by, the so-called "communication revolution" should read′ - ChoiceThe second 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.