This dissertation uses systems theory to describe how and why two regional powers, Australia and India, are using their international radio stations, Radio Australia and All India Radio, in the post-Cold War era. In an era of change in the world political system, many countries …
The main purpose of this dissertation was to study the present status of DBS in the Arab world and its impact in Saudi Arabia. Conventional theoretical frameworks concerning global communication, including the New World Communication and Information Order (NWCIO), cultural/media…
This thesis provides an extended analysis of the television policies of the British Labour Party from 1951 up to the present day. It examines the evolution of Labour's television policy and focuses on the social, political and economic contexts in which policies were developed, …
This thesis provides an extended analysis and review of the television policies of the UK Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1997 and examines the causes, coherence and consequences of those policies. In particular, it identifies the po…
A network based commercial broadcasting system transmits high definition multimedia files from a central location of an organization to any desired site regardless of geographical location. This is a significant topic because this technology provides the management of an organiz…
This dissertation examines the growing landscape of Turkish-language television and radio broadcasting in Berlin. Challenging the contention that these forms of migrant cultural production can be understood as a strictly local phenomenon, the research presented here explores the…
This thesis examines the history of Black representation on British television from 1936 to the present day. Through archival research, it traces Black people's involvement in British television, both on and off screen. The study involves a detailed review of various debates aro…
Italian radio was politicized from the first broadcast of a speech by Mussolini in 1925. The dictator’s thunderous voice may have sought domination over the airwaves, but in the only Western nation where radio broadcasting evolved under a totalitarian government, the vast majori…
This dissertation investigates instances of identity building in the Americas at the close of the nineteenth century, particularly as they were expressed through the built environment. Three cities serve as case studies for the various ways in which leaders in the Americas built…
Between 1927 and 1987, American broadcast regulators undertook a project for radio. The project pursued multiple goals: to allocate wavelengths, to hold stations accountable to the public interest, to restrict prejudicial content, to protect domestic wavelengths from internation…