International and comparative systems

SWITCHING CHANNELS: IDEOLOGIES OF TELEVISION IN INDIA by Nilanjana Gupta (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–19–564204‐X, 155 pp., tables, notes, reading list, index)

CRIME, THE MEDIA AND THE LAW by Dennis Howitt (Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons “Wiley Series in The Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law,”; 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–471–96905–2 hard, 0–471–97834–5 paper, 233 pp., references, index)

GLOBAL MARKETING AND ADVERTISING: UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL PARADOXES by Marieke de Mooij (London: Sage, 1998—£40.00/17.99, ISBN 0–8039–5969–9 hard, 0–8039–5970–2 paper, 336 pp., tables, charts, tables, photos, index)     

Method of Measurement and Gender Differences in Scholastic Achievement

Gender differences in scholastic achievement as a function of method of measurement were examined by comparing the performance of 15-year-old boys (N = 739) and girls (N = 758) in Irish schools on multiple-choice tests and free-response tests (requiring short written answers) of mathematics, Irish, and English achievement. Males performed significantly better than females on multiple-choice tests compared to their performance on free-response examinations. An expectation that the gender difference would be larger for the languages and smaller for mathematics because of the superior verbal skills attributed to females was not fulfilled.     

Join With Other Centers To Produce... A creative arts festival

Young children learn about the world around them when they explore, create, or just mess about with materials. The knowledge gained from these early hands-on experiences is the foundation for the development of more abstract concepts.Jean Linder is an Associate Professor and Ron Linder is a Professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Miriam Piercy is an Assistant Professor at Murray State University in Kentucky. All three authors have been involved with the Children's Festival of the University of South Florida, College of Education. The recent 6th Annual Festival attracted more than 4,000 children to the campus to experience more than 70 various hands-on activities for children.     

The urgent need for new approaches in school evaluation to enable Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence

This paper presents observations on the nature of school audit methods in light of the implementation of Scotland’s incoming Curriculum for Excellence and the major normative, technological, and cultural changes affecting schools. It points to a mismatch between the concepts and structures of the incoming curriculum and that of the universalistic yet atheoretical grading schemas used in Scottish school inspections. The analysis demonstrates how school inspection with its basis in specifications and fixed measures conflicts with the formative agenda of the incoming curriculum, causing a barrier to its creative realisation in schools. An alternative framework of school developmental engagement is presented via interpretative processes, theoretically grounded purposes and systems thinking.     

B. Telephone

DEMOCRATIZING COMMUNICATION? COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION AND POWER edited by Mashoed Bailie and Dwayne Winseck (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press “The Hampton Communication Series,”; 1997—$85.00/32.50, ISBN 1–57273–064–1 hard, 1–57273‐O65‐X paper, 450 pp., photos, tables, charts, notes, references, index)

INTERNATIONAL MEDAI RESEARCH: A CRITICAL SURVEY edited by John Corner, Philip Schlesinger, and Roger Silverstone (London/New York: Routledge, 1997—$100.00/24.00, ISBN 0–415–09035–0 hard 0–415–18496–7 paper, 238 pp., notes, index)

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY OF BRITISH BROADCASTING by Andrew Crisell (London and New York: Routledge, 1997—£12.99 [paper], ISBN 0–415–12802–1 hard, 0–415–12803‐X paper, 280 pp., bibliography, index, chapter recommended readings)

THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY RESEARCH SERIES (CRC Press, 2000 Corporate Blvd. NW, Boca Raton, FL 33431) offers three volumes on important Asian countries. Specifically:

THE KOREAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Michael Pecht, et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3172–2, 126 pp., tables, charts, references, index).

THE SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES by Donald Beane et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3171–4, 103 pp., tables, charts, references, index).

THE TAIWAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Chung‐Shing Lee and Michael Pecht (1997—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3170–6, 157 pp., tables, charts, references).

EUROPEAN MEDIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW (Media Group, Business Research &; Development Centre, Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland [fax: 011–358–2‐3383–515 or e‐mail: mmr@tukkk.fi ]‐$195.00 per year/5 issues, ISSN not given, first issue January 1998)

CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION: EASTERN PERSPECTIVES edited by David French and Michael Richards (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage “Communication and Human Values,”; 1996—$52.00/24–95, ISBN 0–8039–9282–3 hard, 0–8039–9283–1 paper, 371 pp., references, tables and figures, index)

TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Andrew Hart (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum “LEA's Communication Series,”; 1998—prices not given, ISBN 0–8058–2476–6 hard, 0–8058–2477–4 paper, 208 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index)

GETTING TO WAR: PREDICTING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT WITH MASS MEDIA INDICATORS by W. Ben Hunt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997—$49.50, ISBN 0–472–10751–8, 304 pp., tables, charts, appendices, notes, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RESTRUCTURING WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS WORLDWIDE edited by Harry C. Katz (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University Press “Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, No. 32,”; 1997— $49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8014–3286–3 hard, 0–8014–8361–1 paper, 401 pp., tables, notes, references, index)

SECRET STATE SILENT PRESS: NEW MILITARISM, THE GULF AND THE MODERN IMAGE OF WARFARE by Richard Keeble (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1997—£14.95, paper, ISBN 1–860–20–539, 222 pp., bibliography, index)

EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION: WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? edited by Manfred Meyer (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media “Communication Research and Broadcasting, No. 12,”; 1997—$32.00 paper, ISBN 1–86020–528–3, 246 pp., photos, tables, diagrams, notes, abbreviations)

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALIZATION: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION edited by Ali Mohammadi (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997—$75.00/26.95, ISBN 0–7619–5553–4 hard, 0–7619–5554–2 paper, 228 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN WESTERN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EASI edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1997—$55.00, ISBN 0–19–510202–9, 244 pp., tables, charts notes, references, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1998—$65.00, 1SBN0–19–510200–2, 265 pp., tables, chapter references, index)

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR GOVERNMENT (Paris: Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development “STI: Science, Technology, Industry,”; 1997—$9.00 paper, ISBN 92–64–15512–0, 84 pp., annex, notes)

MEDIA COURSES UK edited by Lavinia Orton (London: British Film Institute/Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997 [5th ed.]—$15.95, paper, ISBN 0–85170–649–5, 230 pp., appendices, index)

MEDIA LAW AND REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: NATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL, AND U.S. PERSPECTIVES by Emmanuel E. Paraschos (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1998—$44.95, ISBN 0–8138–2807–4, 288 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

STATISTICAL YEARBOOK ‘98: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE (European Audiovisual Observatory, 76 Allee de la Robertsau, F‐67000 Strasbourg, France—890ff or about $150.00, paper, ISBN 92–871–3590–8, 412 pp., charts, tables, notes)

CHANGING CHANNELS—THE PROSPECTS FOR TELEVISION IN A DIGITAL WORLD edited by Jeanette Steemers (Luton, England: John Libbey Media, University of Luton Press, 1998—£14.95, ISBN 1–86020–544–5, 156 pp., figures, bibliography, index)

NETWORK COMPETITION FOR EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Oliver Stehmann (Oxford University Press, 1995—£40.00, ISBN 0–19–828925–1, 327 pp., figures, tables, glossary, index)     

British and European communications

EUROPE'S NETWORK INDUSTRIES: CONFLICTING PRIORITIES by Lars Bergman, et al. (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research “Monitoring European Deregulation 1,”/Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998—$25.00, paper, ISBN 1–898128–37–5, 258 pp., tables, charts, notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

GERMAN COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK edited by Hans‐Bernd Brosius and Christina Holtz‐Bacha (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1999—$26.50, paper, ISBN 1–57273–296–2, 304 pp., tables, charts, references)

A DECADE OF EU BROADCASTING REGULATION: THE DIRECTIVE “TELEVISION WITHOUT FRONTIERS”; by Emmanuelle Machet (Düsseldorf, Germany: The European Institute for the Media, 1999—DM 20.00, paper, ISBN 929673–33–9, 100 pp., tables, notes, bibliography)

CONVERGENCE IN EUROPEAN DIGITAL TV REGULATION edited by Chris Marsden and Stefaan Verhulst (London: Blackstone Press “Law in Its Social Setting,”; 1999—£19.95, paper, ISBN 1–85431–990–6, 247 pp., notes, references, index)

MEDIA POLICY: CONVERGENCE, CONCENTRATION & COMMERCE edited by Denis McQuail and Karen Siune (London: Sage, 1998—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–7619–5940–8, 231 pp., charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index)

TELEVISION AND THE PRESS SINCE 1945 by Ralph Negrine (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press”; Documents in Contemporary History,”; 1998; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999—$79.95/24.95), ISBN 0–7190–4920–2 hard, 0–7190–4921–0 paper, 212 pp., tables, bibliography, references)

THE MEDIA IN BRITAIN: CURRENT DEBATES AND DEVELOPMENTS edited by Jane Stokes and Anna Reading (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999—$59.95, ISBN 0–312–22528–8 [St. Martin's], 316 pp., charts, tables, references, index)