Cultural Expression in the Global Village

The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro called for new and innovative uses of the mass media of communication to bring about a global understanding of the critical issues facing our planet as it approaches the 21st Century. But will advances in communications technology help liberate individual and societal cultural expression, for positive ends? Or will the media serve only as forms of manipulation and cultural repression? This anthology draws upon papers presented to a symposium on communication and development which preceded the Conference of the International Institute of Communications in Montreal, Canada.