El-Nawawy, Mohammed and Adel Iskandar. Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2002. Reviewed by Douglas A. Boyd, Professor, Department of Communication, and School of Journalism and Telecommunications. Director, Office of International Affairs, University of Kentucky I must start with a disclaimer: …

Tehranian, Majid. Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development and Discourse. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. Reviewed by Ralph D. Berenger, the American University in Cairo The international waters through which global communicators sail is fraught with dangers: differing concepts of what is news; competing notions of public and …

Brinkley, Joel (1998). "Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television." New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. 447 Pages. ISBN: 0-15-600597-2. US$27 [hard cover], US$12.00 [paperback]. Reviewed by Dr. Ralph D. Berenger, the American University in Cairo In the early 1980s US broadcasters faced two major headaches spawned by …

Jens F. Jensen and Cathy Toscan, eds. (1999). "Interactive Television: TV of the Future or the Future of TV." Aalborg : Aalborg University Press. 278 pages. ISBN 87-7307-625-2 [hardcover]. Reviewed by Dr. Brendan Murphy, School of Contemporary Communications, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia. The discipline of media studies has evolved …

Ang Peng Hwa and Sankaran Ramanathan (2000). "Communication Education in ASEAN." Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre. 366 pages. ISBN 9971-905-79-05 [paperback]. Reviewed by Dr. Ali Parandeh, Information Technology Consultant, Malaga, Spain. Why do we educate, how do we educate, and what is the desired end product of such …

Buscombe, Edward, ed. (2000). "British Television: A Reader." Oxford. Oxford University Press. 348pp. ISBN 0-19-874265 [paperback] Reviewed by Prof. Mike Richards, Department of Media and Communication, University of Central England, United Kingdom This is a collection of fifteen papers, which, though captured within a volume entitled "British television," is actually …

Albarran, Alan & David Goff, eds. (2000). "Understanding the Web: Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of the Internet." Ames: Iowa State University Press. 289 pages. ISBN 0-8138-2527-X [hardcover]. Reviewed by Prof. Emmanuel C. Alozie, College of Arts and Sciences, Governors State University, USA About sixteen years ago, when the Internet …

Colin Shaw (1999). Deciding what we watch: Taste, decency and media ethics in the UK and the USA. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 200pp. 0-19-815936-6. Reviewed by Dr. Latiffah Pawanteh, Department of Communication, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia This book offers readers a comprehensive inside look at the differences in the structure, role, and …

Albert Moran (1998). Copycat TV: Globalisation, Program Formats and Cultural Identity. Luton: University of Luton Press. 204 pages. ISBN: 1-86020-537-2. Reviewed by Amos Owen Thomas, School of Marketing and Management, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia While international program flows from the developed world to the underdeveloped dominated the 1970s and 80s, …

William A. Hachten (1999). The World News Prism: Changing Media for International Communication (5th Edition). Ames: Iowa State University Press. 226 pages. ISBN 0-8138-2319-6. Reviewed by Dr. Philip Robertson, School of Contemporary Communication, Central Queensland University, Australia First published in 1981, the World News Prism is now in its fifth edition, …