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Amaral, Roberto; Guimaraes, Cesar – Journal of Communication, 1994
Documents the process of broadcasting media development in Brazil, the failure of new technologies to produce democratization, and the barriers to democratization erected by monopolization and "metastasis." (SR)
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Communication Research, Democracy, Foreign Countries
Simmons, Robert E.; Garda, Eduardo Carlos – 1978
A study was conducted to discover whether (1) use of each of the print and broadcast media could be correlated with subjects' knowledge level, and (2) whether controlling for dogmatism would increase the proportion of media users, with higher levels of knowledge among those less dogmatic, and decrease the proportion among the more dogmatic.…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Developing Nations