TRENDS IN RESEARCH ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND OPINION, 1945-55

In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 182-195

Abstract

In part because of the urgency of developing an art & sci of international communication as a means of reducing resort to war, there seems to have been more res & writing on this, & on internationally signif opinions, in the past 10 yrs than in the previous 25 or 50. Some 50 important studies are cited & discussed. While many of these represent thinking that is a bit obsolete since the H-bomb, there have been signif advances in the study of international propaganda operations, educ'al, sci'fic, educ'al & cultural exchanges, international news-handling & conferences, etc. In all this, far more attention has been paid to communication as an instrumentality in `cold war' than to its uses in promoting `the good life' for its own sake. With regard to the latter, publications produced by & for UNESCO have been among the most important contributions. AA.