Peter Golding is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Until July 2015 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University, and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Loughborough University, where he was Head of Social Sciences from 1991-2006.  He  is Hon. President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association, editor of the European Journal of Communication, and Hon. Sec. of the subject association for the field in the UK (MeCCSA). He chaired the Research Assessment Exercise for the field in the UK in 2008 and 2014.  He has published widely on media sociology, the political economy of the media, and on communications and social policy.

`Once one gets beyond the excellently provocative introductions.... a thoughtful reflection on the concept of the state in the context of post-colonial realities and a very uesful historical investigation of imperialism as cultural contact, which in a very timely way calls for the cross-fertilisaton of debates in international communiction by post-colonial studies, the remaining six chapters all analyse the hopes and failings of NWICO [New World Information and Communication Order] from a number of perspectives. These are very useful in their own right - what went wrong and how a new order might be activated′ - Media Development

• Foreword - Peter Golding and Phil HarrisIntroduction - Peter Golding and Phil HarrisReflections on the International System - Samir AminStates of the State and Third Worlds - Tony BarnettThe Many Cultural Faces of Imperialism - Annabelle Sreberny-MohammadiMacBride with Hindsight - Cees HamelinkThe Western World and the NWICO - Colleen RoachUnited They Stand?From Optimism to Reality - Mohammed MusaAn Overview of Third World News AgenciesCommunication and Global Security - Phil HarrisThe Challenge for the Next MillenniumAn Inclusive NWICO - Pradip N ThomasCultural Resilience and Popular ResistanceThe Future of the Debate - Richard C VincentSetting an Agenda for a New World Information and Communication Order: Ten Proposals

Peter Golding is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Until July 2015 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University, and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Loughborough University, where he was Head of Social Sciences from 1991-2006.  He  is Hon. President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association, editor of the European Journal of Communication, and Hon. Sec. of the subject association for the field in the UK (MeCCSA). He chaired the Research Assessment Exercise for the field in the UK in 2008 and 2014.  He has published widely on media sociology, the political economy of the media, and on communications and social policy.

`Once one gets beyond the excellently provocative introductions.... a thoughtful reflection on the concept of the state in the context of post-colonial realities and a very uesful historical investigation of imperialism as cultural contact, which in a very timely way calls for the cross-fertilisaton of debates in international communiction by post-colonial studies, the remaining six chapters all analyse the hopes and failings of NWICO [New World Information and Communication Order] from a number of perspectives. These are very useful in their own right - what went wrong and how a new order might be activated′ - Media Development

• Foreword - Peter Golding and Phil HarrisIntroduction - Peter Golding and Phil HarrisReflections on the International System - Samir AminStates of the State and Third Worlds - Tony BarnettThe Many Cultural Faces of Imperialism - Annabelle Sreberny-MohammadiMacBride with Hindsight - Cees HamelinkThe Western World and the NWICO - Colleen RoachUnited They Stand?From Optimism to Reality - Mohammed MusaAn Overview of Third World News AgenciesCommunication and Global Security - Phil HarrisThe Challenge for the Next MillenniumAn Inclusive NWICO - Pradip N ThomasCultural Resilience and Popular ResistanceThe Future of the Debate - Richard C VincentSetting an Agenda for a New World Information and Communication Order: Ten Proposals

Peter Golding is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Until July 2015 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University, and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Loughborough University, where he was Head of Social Sciences from 1991-2006.  He  is Hon. President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association, editor of the European Journal of Communication, and Hon. Sec. of the subject association for the field in the UK (MeCCSA). He chaired the Research Assessment Exercise for the field in the UK in 2008 and 2014.  He has published widely on media sociology, the political economy of the media, and on communications and social policy.

`Once one gets beyond the excellently provocative introductions.... a thoughtful reflection on the concept of the state in the context of post-colonial realities and a very uesful historical investigation of imperialism as cultural contact, which in a very timely way calls for the cross-fertilisaton of debates in international communiction by post-colonial studies, the remaining six chapters all analyse the hopes and failings of NWICO [New World Information and Communication Order] from a number of perspectives. These are very useful in their own right - what went wrong and how a new order might be activated′ - Media Development

• Foreword - Peter Golding and Phil HarrisIntroduction - Peter Golding and Phil HarrisReflections on the International System - Samir AminStates of the State and Third Worlds - Tony BarnettThe Many Cultural Faces of Imperialism - Annabelle Sreberny-MohammadiMacBride with Hindsight - Cees HamelinkThe Western World and the NWICO - Colleen RoachUnited They Stand?From Optimism to Reality - Mohammed MusaAn Overview of Third World News AgenciesCommunication and Global Security - Phil HarrisThe Challenge for the Next MillenniumAn Inclusive NWICO - Pradip N ThomasCultural Resilience and Popular ResistanceThe Future of the Debate - Richard C VincentSetting an Agenda for a New World Information and Communication Order: Ten Proposals