English communication books

THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA edited by Keyan Tomaselli and P. Eric Louw (London: James Currey/Bellville, South Africa: Anthropos, 1991—L11.95, paper, ISBN 0–85255–312–9, 236 pp.).

CONSUMING TECHNOLOGIES: MEDIA AND INFORMATION IN DOMESTIC SPACES edited by Roger Silverstone and Eric Hirsch (London: Routledge, 1992— L40.00, ISBN 0–415–06990–4, 241 pp.)

TELEVISION, AUDIENCES & CULTURAL STUDIES by David Morley (London: Routledge, 1992— LI 1.99, paper, ISBN 0–415–05445–1. 125 pp.)

VIDEO PLAYTIME: THE GENDERING OF A LEISURE TECHNOLOGY by Ann Gray (London: Routledge, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–415. 05865–1, 269 pp.)

ARAB & AFRICAN FILM MAKING by Lizbeth Malkmus and Roy Armes (London: Zed Books Ltd, 1991—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–86232–917–5)

GOD & CULTURE edited by D.A. Carson and John D Woodbridge, Editors. (Carlisle, England: The Paternoster Press/ Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B Eerdmans, 1993—L28.95, ISBN 0–85364–553–1, 398 pp.)

THE EVOLUTION OF INFORMATION LINEAGES IN GENE, CULTURE AND ARTEFACT by Susantha Goonatilake (London: Pinter Publishers, 1991—no price given, ISBN 0–86187–895–7, 203 pp.)     

German communication books

CONVERGENCE: THE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES (John Libbey &; Co., 13 Smiths Yard, Summerley St., London SW 18 4HR, England—various rates ranging from $32 for individuals by surface mail to $90 for institutions by air mail, ISSN 1354–8565)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH RESOURCES: AN ANNOTATED GUIDE by James K. Bracken and Christopher H. Sterling (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995—$36.00/17.50, ISBN 0–8058–1886–3 hard, 0–8058–1887–1 soft, 173 pp.)

PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE INTERNET edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller (Cambridge, MA: NIT Press, 1995—$40/20, ISBN 0–262–11207–8 hard, 0–262–61118‐X, 390 pp.)

COMPUTER PIONEERS by J.A.N. Lee (IEEE Computer Society Press, 10662 Las Vaqueros Circle, P.O. Box 3014, Los Alamitos, CA 90720–1264— $54.00, ISBN 0–8186–6357‐X hardcover, 0–8186–6356–1 microfiche, 816 pp.)

WIRELESS AND SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE TECHNOLOGY, THE MARKET &; THE REGULATIONS by Joseph N. Pelton (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, 1995—price not given, ISBN 0–13–140493–8, 277 pp.)     

Establishing a research agenda communication education: A symposium

Organizations charged with wrongdoing often face social legitimacy crises and subsequently issue apologiae. Whether the charge is rooted in incompetence, as was Exxon's after the Alaskan oil spill, or a policy choice viewed to be irresponsible, as in the case of Domino's Pizza after a series of fatal automobile accidents, corporate apologists seek to purify their damaged images through a negative strategy of dissociation and a positive strategy of corrective action and reaffirmation of public values. This generic analysis suggests that corporate apologia warrants a distinct line of research due to the significant'differences that distinguish itffbm individualist conceptions of apologia.     

Reviews: Ethics,consulting, and communication

Ethics in Human Communication (2nd ed.). Edited by Richard L. Johannesen. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1983, pp. x + 244. $8.95.

Ethics, Morality and the Media: Reflections on American Culture. Edited by Lee Thayer. New York: Hastings House, 1980, pp. xvi + 302. $21.50 (cloth) or $11.95 (paper).

Ethical Perspectives and Critical Issues in Intercultural Communication. Edited by Nobleza C. Asuncion‐Landé. Falls Church, VA: Speech Communication Association, 1978, pp. x + 179. $7.00.

Organization Development and Change (2nd ed.). By Edgar F. Huse. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1980, pp. xiv + 528. $22.50.

Trends and Issues in OD: Current Theory and Practice. Edited by W. Warner Burke and Leonard D. Goodstein. San Diego: University Associates, 1980, pp. vii + 351. $18.50.

Consultation. Edited by Thomas Backer and Edward Glaser. Los Angeles: Human Interaction Research Institute. Triannually. No charge.

Group and Organization Studies. Edited by Marshall Sashkin. San Diego: University Associates. Quarterly. $28.00 (individuals) and $54.00 (institutions).

Training and Development Journal. Edited by Patricia Galagen Hurley. Washington: American Society for Training and Development. Monthly. $40.00 (non‐members).