91 research outputs found
Acquisition et fermeture de journaux par des chaînes de journaux : effets sur les tarifs de publicité
No full textThis article observes the effects that newspaper closure or acquisition by a chain might have on the advertising rates of newspapers in a given area. The market for newspapers and the media in general being what it is, the authors show that such acquisition or closure does not necessarily entail an increase in advertising rates.Cet article examine les effets que peuvent avoir la fermeture d'un journal ou son acquisition par une chaîne sur les tarifs publicitaires des journaux d'une même région. Pour toutes sortes de raisons qui tiennent aux conditions particulières du marché d'un journal, les auteurs montrent que fermeture ou acquisition d'un journal par une chaîne n'entraîne pas nécessairement une augmentation des tarifs publicitaires.Este artículo examina los efectos que sobre las tarifas publicitárias de los diarios de una misma region pueden ser producidos por el cierre de uno de ellos o por su adquisición por una cadena. Por toda classe de razones, que conciernen las condiciones particulares de mercado de un diario, los autores demuestran que la concretización de estas eventualidades no comporta necesariamente un aumento de las tarifas publicitarias.Charrette Michael F., Brown-John C. Lloyd, Romanow Walter I., Soderlund Walter C. Acquisition et fermeture de journaux par des chaînes de journaux : effets sur les tarifs de publicité. In: Communication. Information Médias Théories, volume 6 n°1,1983. pp. 44-62
Imperialism, Media, and the Good Neighbor: New Deal Foreign Policy and United States Shortwave Broadcasting to Latin America
No full text In Imperialism, Media, and the Good Neighbor, Professor Fred Fejes of Florida Atlantic University races and analyzes United States shortwave broadcasting policy towards Latin America during the 1930s and 1940s. While the majority of the book consists of a narrative explanation of this policy, based chiefly on documentary research, to me the book's primary interest is the attempt by the author to integrate the private broadcaster/government rivalry within the modem framework of "Media Imperialism", defined by Fejes as "the process by which modem communications media have operated to create, maintain and expand systems of dominance and dependence on a world scale." (1) For Fejes, communications represents one of a number of factors used by the United States in an integrated way to fashion hegemony over Latin America, and he finds the process whereby shortwave broadcasting was used in this respect not only interesting in its own right, but also illustrative of global United States foreign policy approaches following World War 11. </jats:p
Isolated Identities: The Impact of Government Policies and Socialization Agents on the Root Causes of the Current Conflict in South Sudan
No full textIn his book Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts, Timothy Sisk has argued that “What is most important is not whether ethnic group identity is innate and fixed or contrived and manipulable; it is that members of an ethnic group perceive the ethnic group to be real. Perceptions are critical in understanding the extent to which intergroup relations can be peaceful or violent” (Timothy Sisk, 1996, p. 13). In South Sudan, "Identity Groups" are not only perceived to be real, they are real, and as such serve as the basis ethnic differentiation. Before the separation and independence of South Sudan in 2011, Sudan was inhabited by over five hundred distinct ethnic groups; South Sudan seceded with sixty-four of these ethnic groups. Importantly, each of these groups had unique cultures, traditions and religious beliefs that shaped their identities. This multi-ethnic and multi-communal setting created an environment conducive to social conflict, in that it set the stage for the absence of a unified Sudanese identity. The result was "protracted civil conflict" (Azar, 1990), resulting in decades of political instability and civil wars. First, there were two post (1956) independence civil wars with the North, and second, following its independence in 2011, a civil war broke out within South Sudan. The net result is that since independence in 1956, these civil wars totalled thirty-nine years of conflict that killed over three million and three hundred thousand people on both sides, mostly from South Sudan – totals not to be envied. This paper initially seeks to trace the origins of identity groups in Sudanese/South Sudanese history, both before and after the Turko-Egyptian and Anglo-Egyptian condominium eras beginning in 1821 and lasting until 1956. Further, it will trace the continuing impact of colonial and independent Sudanese government policies on creating "isolated identities" as the "root causes" of the protracted social conflict seen in Sudan following independence in 1956. Finally, through the author's first-hand experience growing up in South Sudan, the paper explores how these identity groups have been perpetuated into the present through an examination of the socialization process. In conclusion, the paper will document how a lack of a common shared identity created dysfunction in South Sudan's Transition Government, resulting in instability, insecurity and widespread human suffering
Press Reporting on El Salvador and Nicaragua in Leading Canadian and American Newspapers
No full text Literature dealing with western news coverage of the Third World points to an unevenness in that coverage. Events that are sensational or violent, especially if they impact on the West, are those most likely to find their way into news reports (Markham, 1961; Hester, 74). This article, based on a study of news coverage of Central America in the fall of 1983, substantiates this generalization, as one hundred and fifty - six out of a total of two hundred and fourteen items dealing with the entire region in four leading Canadian and American newspapers (72.9%), focused on the violence torn countries of El Salvador and Nicaragua. With respect to the remaining items, twelve percent focused on the region in general (often in terms of the implications of the violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua), while only seven percent dealt with Guatemala, 3.7% with Honduras, 3.3% with Costa Rica, and 0.6% with Panama. If violence, both external and internal, is the magnet which attracts western press attention to countries of the Third World, we have little difficulty in locating the primary sites of that violence within the Central American isthmus. </jats:p
World Broadcasting in the Age of the Satellite
No full text World Broadcasting in the Age of the Satellite presents a comparative study of radio and television broadcasting throughout the world. It contains nine chapters divided into three major parts: I. Frames of Reference in World Broadcasting, II. Four Worlds of National Broadcasting, and III. Previewing and Reviewing World Broadcasting. </jats:p
The impact of the Aquino assassination on the press image of Ferdinand Marcos: Transformation or amplification?
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