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Title: | Information is not just education or development |
Author: | Thiam, Moctar |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | Educafrica: Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Africa |
Issue: | 11 |
Pages: | 128-137 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | media policy mass communication |
Abstract: | Approaching the issue of communication from a journalist's point of view, the author tries to show that public information organs, as communication tools, are neither designed nor intended solely for the ducation of their users, and that they cannot function as surrogates for schools. While agreeing that the mass communication media have an important function in the development of education and the dissemination of certain cultural values, he puts in a reminder that communication nevertheless has a social function quite distinct from its instrumental uses. - Notes. |