Radio communications have been as necessary to the development of Canadian territories north of the 60th parallel as roads, schools, medical services, and airstrips. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation did not pioneer broadcasting in northern Canada, but its Northern Service has been the only broadcasting company north of the 60th parallel for…

Drawn from a one-day seminar sponsored by the West Virginia University Appalachian Center and the West Virginia Broadcasters Association, these selected proceedings deal with social change in rural Appalachia, mass communication linkages with urban America, results of a projection of the West Virginia economy up to 1975, findings of a pilot study…

Reviews the book "Broadcasting in the Third World," by Elihu Katz and George Wedell, which is an analysis and synthesis of 11 country case studies which were financed under a grant from the Ford Foundation and administered by the International Institute of Communications. (Author/JEG)

The challenge to public service forms of broadcasting posed by the adoption of neo-liberal communication policy strategies by a number of western European governments has presented the left with a dilemma. Traditionally these public corporations have been characterized as ideological instruments of class domination. Today, however, sections of the…

The D. Lerner and W. Schramm model of the role of mass media in national development has influenced most media oriented studies of development for almost two decades. Briefly, the model suggests that the evolution from traditional to modern societies follows a causal path that leads to increased mass media use. The path ends with increased…

Four features characterize the current global scene in mass communications: (1) an imbalance of resources between industrialized and developing countries, (2) an imbalance of information flow between countries, (3) an irrelevance of media content to the social and cultural problems of the Third World, and (4) a considerable impact on the operation…