TY - JOUR
T1 - International Communications and the Second World
T2 - Developments in Communication Strategies
AU - Downing, John D.h.
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is based on the writer's interviews over a period of ten weeks in January and July-August 1986, in Managua, Havana, Prague, Bratislava and Moscow, with the aid of a small grant from the Hunter College Shuster Foundation, and a grant from the Political Science panel of the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation. I would like to thank, for their time and information, officials of the Intersputnik and OIRT Directorates, of the Institute for Automated Systems of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, of Czech and Slovak broadcasting, of the Cuban Ministry of Communications, of the ICRT and IDICT, and of the SST and Telcor in Nicaragua. The interpretations and details are the writer's responsibility.
PY - 1989/3
Y1 - 1989/3
N2 - There are many forms of communication between the socialist nations, and between them and capitalist countries, such as diplomatic (both conventional and public), party-to-party, scientific and foreign language media services. This article focuses upon the use of media technologies in international communication. It examines (a) TV programme exchange practices and policies; (b) the role of the Intersputnik international satellite organization; (c) the development of computer-aided international data transmission (TBDFs); and (d) the respective places of Cuba and Nicaragua in this communication complex.
AB - There are many forms of communication between the socialist nations, and between them and capitalist countries, such as diplomatic (both conventional and public), party-to-party, scientific and foreign language media services. This article focuses upon the use of media technologies in international communication. It examines (a) TV programme exchange practices and policies; (b) the role of the Intersputnik international satellite organization; (c) the development of computer-aided international data transmission (TBDFs); and (d) the respective places of Cuba and Nicaragua in this communication complex.
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U2 - 10.1177/0267323189004001006
DO - 10.1177/0267323189004001006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84965934406
SN - 0267-3231
VL - 4
SP - 99
EP - 119
JO - European Journal of Communication
JF - European Journal of Communication
IS - 1
ER -