۳۴ ( Mowlana Bibliography
Books ( 33
Books in English
Mowlana, Hamid. Islam and the Crises of Contemporary World. Elmi- Farhangi Publications, Tehran, 2011 (Also published in several languages).
Abstract: “Islam and the crises of contemporary world”, is a book by Hamid Mowlana which has been presented in 3 languages by Elmi-Farhangi publication at the 24th Tehran International Book Fair.
“Islam and the crises of contemporary world”, which has been converted into English, Arabic and Persian, is about the difficulties Islam encountered during its 14 centuries of existence.
The book has been authored in 9 chapters and the first few chapters present information about some prime concepts of contemporary international ties, the world as well as the Islamic world.
The next chapters study the incidents of the past few decades of the Islamic countries while the final two chapters present a framework for understanding the crises of contemporary history.
Elmi-Farhangi publication is presenting the e-book of the work as well.
Mowlana, Hamid. Global Information and World Communication: New Frontiers in International Relations (Revised Edition), London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997 (Also published in several Languages).
Abstract: About the Title: The new edition of this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Hamid Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations. Extensively rewritten and revised, Global Information and World Communication deals with the phenomenon of global information flow in all contexts – political, economic, cultural, technological, legal and professional. Mowlana illustrates how different communication strategies and systems have contributed to the creation of powerful interests and have altered the global scene. He takes into account recent events and shows how these have challenged basic assumptions and theories, enabling the debate about communication and world society to embrace broader concepts of world politics, information economy, cultural ecology and international development.
Benefitting from more than three decades of intense international communication study, Mowlana has systematically chosen theories, approaches and findings from many academic disciplines; carefully synthesized and analyzed their major tenets and implications; and neatly packaged them in one of the most comprehensive, insightful, and critically prescriptive volumes in the burgeoning field. The author has expanded the discourse, covering a wider swath than the traditional analyses of mass media messages and communication technologies; he includes global dimensions of news and views, broadcasting, culture industries , transborder data flows, travel and tourism, intercultural communication, information technology, communication and development, and research. Mowlana favors enumeration of items, likes to design his own figures and models, and cannot resist giving solutions for international communication dilemmas. He defines terms precisely, regularly points out areas needing further research, and suggests ways the studies can be approached. A refreshing relief from the glut of contemporary uncritical work, this is the book for international communication courses, the one boo, all those enamored with, or otherwise affected by, the so-called “communication revolution” should read' – Choice
The second edition of this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Hamid Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations. Extensively rewritten and revised, Global Information and World Communication deals with the phenomenon of global information flow in all contexts – political, economic, cultural, technological, legal and professional.
Mowlana, Hamid. Global Communication in Transition: The End of Diversity?, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA and London, 1996 (Also published in several Languages).
Abstract: The dramatic developments in global communication are altering the specifics of our societies. Hamid Mowlana offers an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to international communication in this volume, focusing on both the human dimensions and the technological imperatives.
Global Communication in Transition covers a range of issues from the rise of modern political systems and the interactions of various cultures to the expansion of social organizations and the growing global infrastructure. Offering a new paradigm for the study of international communication, the book is organized around a number of basic concepts including history, power, community, legitimacy and language.
Mowlana, Hamid. Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control of Media Means for America and the World (edited with George Gerbner and Herbert Schiller), Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Abstract: Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that threaten our democracy and existence more than the crises we know about—or think we know about. These invisible crises include the promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and brutalize; the growing siege mentality of our cities; widening resource gaps and the most glaring inequalities in the industrial world; the costly neglect of vital institutions such as public education and the arts; and media-assisted make-believe image politics corrupting the electoral process .Deprived of sustained attention but bombarded by eruptions of surface consequences (often presented as unique events stripped of historical context), people are bewildered, fearful, angry, and cynical. The contributors to this volume—exploring such unattended crises, analyzing why they are hidden, and focusing on the increasing concentration of culture-power that keeps them from view—maintain that a profound general crisis of social vision, public communication, and representative government underlies all of the invisible crises.
Mowlana, Hamid. Mass Media in the Middle East: A Comprehensive Handbook, (edited with Yahya R. Kamalipour), Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1994.
Abstract: This is the very first handbook to offer a comprehensive survey of mass media in 21 Middle Eastern countries. Knowledgeable Middle Eastern media experts unfold the little known but timely information about the region and compendiously discuss communication philosophies, newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, motion pictures, media regulations, ownership patterns, news agencies, new technologies, external media services, and the role of media in national development in 21 country chapters. In addition to providing information about domestic and international media services, broadcast programming (domestic and imported), and print media contents, each chapter integrates geographical, social, political, religious, and economic factors to enhance our understanding of each country's mass media structure. Undergraduate and graduate students, educators, researchers, journalists, international media consultants, and media specialists will find this premier handbook an invaluable resource.
Mowlana, Hamid. The Global Media Debate: Its Rise, Fall and Renewal (with George Gerbner and Kaarle Nordenstreng), Ablex, Norwood, NJ, 1993.
Abstract: This is a book about one of the most influential but least understood controversies in the recent history of international relations. It has been written and edited for journalists, scholars, political scientists, specialists in international relations and communications, public and private decision makers, and other professionals and interested citizens to help to prepare them for the renewal of the great debate. The debate whose history, key documents, perceptions, interpretations, representations, and new perspectives and prospects are examined here in an international context was carried on for decades in political, professional, and academic circles, It involves policies of the mass media of communications (press, radio, television, news agencies, etc.) as well as various related media of culture and telecommunication (from cinema to databanks). The focus of this debate has been the role played by the media in social, political, and economic developments around the world, especially the so-called Third World of Africa, Asia, and Latin America- both in terms of the actual performance with the given conditions and in terms of the potential performance with alternative policies.
Mowlana, Hamid. The Media as a Forum for Community Building: Cases from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the United States, (edited with Margaret Hardt Frondort), School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., 1992
Abstract: The Media as a Forum for Community Building is a collection of paper's that detail seven case studies involving grass roots appropriation of the press, radio and video. The monograph originated at a conference of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. The papers explore the role of the media in community development, a complex issue that often perplexes and sometimes rewards those who inquire. The specific questions addressed are: Can local communities use these media as forums for resolving their problems? and can these instruments of communication aid in community building? The issue at hand is whether these and other forms of mediated communication can assist people in their efforts to resolve some of their community's problems or whether the financial and technical difficulties associated with these media are insurmountable.
Mowlana, Hamid. Triumph of the Image: The Media ’s War in the Persian Gulf (edited with George Gerbner and Herbert I. Schiller), Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1992.
Abstract: The triumph of image over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words in real time to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We thought we witnessed the Gulf War as we sat, mesmerized by the imagery. But the studies from the many countries assembled for this book suggest that it was not the war in the Persian Gulf that we witnessed but rather imagery orchestrated to convey a sense of triumph and thus to achieve results that reality and reason could never have achieved. The book offers contributions from thirty-four authors in eighteen countries, including short samplings from the media of several regions. The authors explore the social, economic, and political context of media coverage in their countries, the domination of one image in most of them, and the struggle for alternative perspectives.
The authors probe the dynamics of image-making and pose some challenges for the future as well as provide us with a unique glimpse of how the world outside of the United States (as well as many Americans) viewed the war in the Persian Gulf and how the dynamics of image-making and information control operate. Triumph of the Image will be useful to scholars and students in communications and mass media, international relations, political science, cultural studies, propaganda, censorship, and contemporary history as well as to the general public.
Mowlana, Hamid. Telecommunications and International Relations: An East- West Perspective, (edited with Nanette S. Levinson), International Communication Program, School of International Service, The American University, Washington, D.C., 1991
Abstract: The end of the 1980s and the initiation of the 1990s has been a remarkable time. This volume captures major themes in the complex relationships between telecommunications technologies and international relations at this special time. It is based upon the proceedings of an international conference convened in April, 1989,at The American University in Washington,D.C.1 The conference celebrated the 20th anniversary of the International Communication Program in the University' s School of International Service and marked the naming of the International Communication Program as a Center of Excellence. It focused on emerging telecommunications technologies and East-West relationships and predicted accurately the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Mowlana, Hamid. The Passing of Modernity: Communication and the Transformation of Society (with Laurie J. Wilson), Longman, Inc., White Plains, N.Y., 1990.
Abstract: This volume is a contribution to contemporary communication theory and social transformation. The text includes the main perspectives in development theories as well as many of the themes of modernization and social change that have preoccupied major writers since the end of World War I. It synthesizes a wide range of experiemental studies over a broad range of issues concerning development and communication and includes analyses, reviews and critical reconstructions of such thinkers and theorists as Ion Khaldun, Smith, Marx, Weber, Habermas and Khomeini. It also includes postmodern and poststructural writers and polemiasts such as Foucalt, Lyotard, DeLeuze and Guattari.
Mowlana, Hamid. Aspects of the Mass Media Declaration of UNESCO (also author of Chapter IV, “Knowledge, Perception, and Utilization of the Declaration Among Media Professionals”), Occasional Papers, International Association for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, England, 1989
Mowlana, Hamid. Objectives and Aims of Tabligh From the Islamic Viewpoint: Toward a Theory of Communication and Ethics, Islamic Propagation Organization Publication, Tehran, Iran, 1989, (Published in English, Arabic, and Persian Languages).
Mowlana, Hamid. Communication Technology and Development (with Laurie J. Wilson), UNESCO Press, Paris, UNESCO, 1988 (Also published in French and Spanish).
Abstract: In 1985, Unesco commissioned the present study which attempts to describe and analyse the contribution of communication technology to development from different geographical, socio-economic and cultural perspectives, so as to provide a status report on various strategies and experiences throughout the world. The study was prepared by Dr Hamid Mowlana, Director of International Communication Studies at the American University in Washington D.C., in association with Laurie J. Wilson, a Doctoral Candidate at the American University. Dr Mowlana has published several book on international communication issues and has bought to this study his exceptional knowledge of a wide range of experiments using communication technology for developmental purposes.
Mowlana, Hamid. Development: A Field in Search of Itself, Occasional Papers, International Association for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, England, No. 2, 1988
Abstract: This paper has two objectives. The first, is a critique of the concept of “development” as it has been progressively used throughout last four decades, since World war II, becoming a residual category for a number of otherwise ambiguous notion of individual, institutional, societal, and international change. It is a thesis of this paper that the term, development, in its current usage lacks the rigorous epistemological, conceptual, and at times, methodological power to be of much value in enhancing our understanding of som of the most complex historical, social, political, economic, and spiritual occurrences of our times. it neither has the narrow connotation of development in terms of the economic and technological processes evidenced in its early history, nor the rigor and explanatory power of the more general notion of historical change for which it clams ownership. having made a ground for this contention, the paper then addresses the complexities of the term itself, outlining a conceptual framework for developmental processes in wich the various dimensions of the phenomena under investigation can be better understood.
Mowlana, Hamid. Global Information and World Communication: New Frontiers in International Relations, Longman Inc., White Plains, New York, 1986 (Selected as “Communication Book of the year”)
Abstract: Benefitting from more than three decades of intense international communication study, Mowlana has systematically chosen theories, approaches and findings from many academic disciplines; carefully synthesized and analyzed their major tenets and implications; and neatly packaged them in one of the most comprehensive, insightful, and critically prescriptive volumes in the burgeoning field. The author has expanded the discourse, covering a wider swath than the traditional analyses of mass media messages and communication technologies; he includes global dimensions of news and views, broadcasting, culture industries , transborder data flows, travel and tourism, intercultural communication, information technology, communication and development, and research. Mowlana favors enumeration of items, likes to design his own figures and models, and cannot resist giving solutions for international communication dilemmas. He defines terms precisely, regularly points out areas needing further research, and suggests ways the studies can be approached. A refreshing relief from the glut of contemporary uncritical work, this is the book for international communication courses, the one boo, all those enamored with, or otherwise affected by, the so-called “communication revolution”
this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Hamid Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations. Extensively rewritten and revised, Global Information and World Communication deals with the phenomenon of global information flow in all contexts – political, economic, cultural, technological, legal and professional.
Mowlana, Hamid. Communication and Development: A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT (with Laurie J. Wilson), UNESCO Press, Paris, 1985.
Abstract: This report is the result of the study on “Communication and Development: A Global Assessment”, commissioned by UNESCO and conducted under the direction of Professor Hamid Mowlana of The American University, Washington, D.C. The purpose of the study was to prepare a comprehensive report synthesizing existing research on all aspects of communication and development giving an up-to-date status report on the various theories, strategies, and policies of communication and development. In carrying out the study, attempts have been made to reflect, as much as possible, work from different geographical, epistemological, socio-economic and cultural perspectives. On the basis of past studies, the authors have also summarized the experiments and the use of telecommunication, especially the Use of modern space technology, for development, particularly in educational, scientific, cultural and rural development.
Mowlana, Hamid. International Flow of Information: A Global Report and Analysis, UNESCO Press, Paris, 1985 (Also published in French and Spanish also translated into Persian.
Abstract: There has been an astonishing growth in research and writing on the international flow of information during the last decade. Among the factors responsible for the increased study and research in this field are the following: 1. the development of modern information and communication technologies, and their use and impact on the nature, volume and content of information and communication; 2. the increased awareness on the part of nation states, institutions, groups and individuals of the importance of the flow of information, and the existing imbalances and their consequences and impact on the national and international decision-making processes (day-to-day and long-term), as well as on the individual and private lives of people around the world; 3. the growing number of international and trans national actors involved in almost all aspects of the international flow of information; the political, social and economic ramifications of this phenomenon, particularly as related to trade, marketing, education and culture have also been of singular importance; 4. the growing interest in comparative, cross-cultural studies as well as public opinion and image research, which has been accompanied by increasingly refined investigatory tools and improved means of collecting, sorting, retrieving and sharing data; 5. and more specifically, the debate generated by the New International Economic Order and a new world information and communication order in the 1970s, the Unesco declarations and activities on information flow and communication policies and the ensuing discussions over the relationship between the economic and communication aspects of the world's resources have been particularly significant.
Mowlana, Hamid. International Flow of News: An Annotated Bibliography, UNESCO Press, Paris, 1985
Abstract: Noting the unprecedented expansion of research in the field of international communications, much of it conducted by scholars from developing countries, this bibliography contains citations of studies on the international flow of news. The bibliography begins with an introduction to the field of research on international news flow, noting those areas in which this bibliography differs from others on international communication and the New World Information and Communication Order debate. The remainder of the bibliography is divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to studies that are international in scope, or deal with general theoretical, methodological, and policy issues. The second part contains studies treating the regional or national flow of news by geographic regions: (1) Africa, (2) Arab States, (3) Asia, (4) eastern Europe, (5) western Europe, (6) North America, and (7) South and Central America.
Mowlana, Hamid. Watergate: A Crisis for the World: A Survey of British and French Press Reaction Toward An American Political Crisis (with James Trezise and James Stovall), Oxford, England, Pergamon Press, 1980.
Abstract: In this survey of British and French press reaction toward the Watergate crisis, this book reveals a number of assumptions and attitudes held by correspondents in Britain and France. It includes an interesting overview of these countries' press systems and a theoretical discussion of Watergate as a unique phenomenon in international communication.
Mowlana, Hamid. International Communication, Kendal/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 1971.
Abstract: The acceleration in the output of work in international communication has not been accompanied by the publication of appropriate bibliographic materials. This bibliography is designed to help fill the need for a guide to sources on a discipline-wide basis. As the following survey will show, there has been no bibliographic literature dealing with the field as a whole, nor has there been sufficient research work. The student of international communication is likely to End that many of his problems are derived from the relative newness of his discipline. The increasing detachment of international communication from its parent disciplines to become a field in its own, is depriving the student of the use of systematic analytic frameworks borrowed from other fields such as anthropology, psychology or international relations for the study and comprehension of international communication There has not been sufficient time and experience to permit the formation of an analytic framework which can identify and define the central concepts and foundations, or precisely limit the scope of the field. Rather there exists a collection of diverse perspectives which try to order a vast system with nebulous boundaries.