Payment Determines the Status of an Actor

The scenario was quite explicit—local actors and local situations. As part of a daily educational television programme aimed at semiliterate adults living in Lubumbashi in the Congo, it had been decided that not only programmes to teach French and arithmetic should be produced but also certain programmes under the title of general information. These programmes have been based on courses which the Training Within Industry department of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had been giving over the last ten years. The main object of this course was to teach an appreciation of such things as elementary notions of economics—the convention of money, insurance—as well as hygiene and safety. To illustrate these programmes film had to be shot.     

Foreign Communication

CSIS, two recent papers from

ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND POLITICS IN WESTERN EUROPE: EUROMEDIA RESEARCH GROUP HANDBOOK OF NATIONAL SYSTEMS edited by Hans J. Kleinsteuber, et al (Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 1986—price not given, paper)

THE POLITICS OF THE COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION IN WESTERN EUROPE edited by Kenneth Dyson and Peter Humphreys (London and Totowa, NJ: Frank Cass & Co., 1986—$29.50)

EMERGING CORPORATE INFORMATION NETWORKS: REGULATORY AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN JAPAN by Takashi Yokokura (Program on Information Resources Polic y, 200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138—price not given, paper)

WORLD BROADCASTING SYSTEMS: Update Notes, December 1987 by Sydney W. Head (available from Martha Sanchez, Kinko's Copies, 1212 South Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, FL 33146—$7.00 spiral bound)