Future directions of international communication research?
long before the arrival in office of George W. Bush and the neo-conservatives, Washington was a company town, and a small one at that ... The company is government, and the product is money and power, the two intimately related and in the Bush administration all but indistinguishable. The town's sources of information have steadily diminished over the years. Serious newspapers have disappeared, broadcast news became entertainment ... Virtually no attention is paid to information generated from non-US sources, which are considered irrelevant or hostile. The result, so far as international affairs are concerned, is that nobody knows much of anything about what really is going on. Those who do, who have worked in the field ... professional diplomats and intelligence people, experienced journalists, have increasingly been cut out of the policy making chain ... Washington people think they are informed, but they actually deal in a limited number of ideologically constructed stories about the world that rely heavily on stereotype and prejudice ... Iran's phantom weapons of mass destruction and the fantasy of quasi-spontaneous democratisation of Iraq are the two most recent examples. (10 October 2003, p.12)
The glocalization of journalism ethics
This article addresses globalization's effects on journalism ethics in South Africa and India. It shows the ways in which the debates and issues of journalism ethics are being resolved through the process which scholars have termed as glocalization. Both in South Africa and India we found a two-way relationship between global and local epistemologies and practices. By using examples from each country, we suggest that journalism ethics is going through a process of resignification in the local arena. We suggest a global-to-local theoretical matrix that takes into consideration the complexity of journalism ethics in specific cultural and national contexts.
As práticas profissionais no campo público de atenção à saúde bucal: o caso de dois municípios da Bahia
This paper examines the working facilities and processes of dentists in the primary healthcare systems of two towns in Bahia State, Brazil, striving to analyze the extent to which factors related to dental care, training, placement and professional profiles influence their practices. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine dentists in both towns, with work process organization patterns in Municipality C being closer to the structuring principles of Brazil's National Health System than in Municipality E. This seems to be related to management characteristics, with networking links among individual, collective, and preventive clinical activities and planning noted in Municipality C. Despite these differences, the practitioners presented similarities in terms of dual militancy and perceptions of the public and private healthcare fields. The hegemony of the private sector seems to be influencing the professional practices of dentists in the public health system.