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

Examines the human dimensions and the technological imperatives of international communications. This title covers the fields of history, power, community, legitimacy, and language. By analyzing the implications of communication, it provides a fresh paradigm for the study of international communication.

The triumph of image over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words in real time to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We thought we witnessed the Gulf War as we sat, mesmerized by the imagery. But the studies from the many countries assembled for this book suggest that it was not the war in the Persian Gulf that we witnessed but rather imagery orchestrated to convey a sense of triumph and thus to achieve results that reality and reason could never have achieved.The book offers...

Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that threaten our democracy and existence more than the crises we know aboutor think we know about. These invisible crises include the promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and brutalize; the growing siege mentality of our cities; widening resource gaps and the most glaring inequalities in the industrial world; the costly neglect of vital institutions such as public education and the arts; and media-assisted make-believe image politics corrupting...