Table of Contents

Global Considerations
Informatics and Information Flows: The Underpinnings of Transnational Capitalism
On Thinking the Unthinkable About Nuclear War and Its Consequences for the Peace Movement
Advertising and the Creation of Global Markets: The Role of the New Communication Technologies
Towards an Electronic Democracy?
Canada, U.S., and Latin America
High Technology and Pacific Empire: The California Dream Revisited
The New American Information Order
La Guerra Radiofonica: Radio War Between Cuba and the United States
United States-Canada Relations: Cultural Dependence and Conflict
The Logic of Cultural Industries in Latin America: The Television Industry in Brazil
Europe
Twenty-three Guidelines for a Political Debate on Communications in Europe
Control Over the Media in France: Conflict Between Political and Economic Rationale
The Commercialization of Culture-Perspectives and Precautions
The "Privatization" of British Communications
Author Index
Subject Index