CIAO DATE: 10/2008
April 2005
Opening the Realm: The Role of Communications in Negotiating the Tension of Values in Globalization, by Michael Suman, addresses how the communications media and information technologies can be used to ameliorate or exacerbate the tensions among the values of peace, prosperity, and good governance, or among the forces of security, capitalism, and democracy. That is, can the media help a society gain the simultaneous benefit of all three values or forces? How does one prioritize how the media go about doing that in a free society? What is the role of the new media, which has so much promise to involve the individual in new ways?
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