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Transnational Broadcasting Studies
No. 2, Spring 1999
In This Issue:
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| ARTICLES |
Localism
in the Era of Globalization and New Technologies: Implications for the 21st Century
By Frank Aycock |
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Localizing
the Global in India: New Imperatives for International Communication Scholarship
in the Satellite Era
By Aashish Kumar
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Transnational
Media and Social Change in the Arab World
By Jon B. Alterman |
ART
Puts Together First-Ever Arab Global Telethon
By TBS Editorial Assistant Dana Zureikat |
Peer-Reviewed:
Broadcast
Satellites and Television for Asia: Global Actors on a Continental Stage
By Amos Owen Thomas |
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| INTERVIEWS |
| Will
Wyatt, chief executive of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), talks
with TBS about the digital age and the evolving role of public service broadcasters. |
| TBS Contributing Editor
Chris Forrester talks with Rupert
Murdoch about News Corp’s expansion plans in Europe. |
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| SYMPOSIUM |
| This issue’s symposium
takes a look at transnational broadcasting in Asia. The experts: Philip Kitley,
Keval Kumar, Brian Shoesmith, Amos Owen Thomas, and Tony Wilson. |
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| RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTS |
Pay-TV
in Egypt: Impediments and Developments
by Sherin Moody |
| Voices
21: A Global Movement for People's Media and Communications in the 21st Century
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Introduction
to the People’s Communication Charter
by Cees Hamelink |
| The
People’s Communication Charter: An International Covenant of Standards |
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| REPORTS |
Bell-Atlantic
Temple University Conference on Digital Communication “The Challenge of the Digital
Age: A Forum of Diverse Perspectives.”
by George Gerbner |
The
Third Annual Conference of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators
(AUSACE)
by TBS Senior Editor Hussein Amin |
Satellite
Broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa: Regulations, Access, and Impact.
An International Seminar of Article 19, The International Centre Against Censorship.
By TBS Editorial Assistant Dana Zureikat |
Roundtable
on Culture and Communication in the Global Information Society, organized by the
MacBride Roundtable on Communication, MedMedia Jemstone Network, and the Jordan
Institute of Diplomacy.
By TBS Senior Editor Hussein Amin and Editorial Assistant Dana Zureikat |
| TBS Contributing Editor
Chris Forrester reports on the hottest news on the Middle East satellite scene
from the Dubai
Cable and Satellite Show |
