Many worked examples —Help students gain a better understanding of the concepts discussed. Two separate chapters on Information Theory and Coding —Provides sufficient emphasis on these key topics.
New to This Edition. The following are the major new features in the Second Edition of Fundamentals of Communication Systems : Major reorganization of basic digital modulation methods based on geometric representation of signals Expanded coverage of carrier phase estimation and symbol synchronization New chapter on multicarrier modulation and OFDM New and expanded coverage of iterative decoding of turbo codes and LDPC codes New section on multiple antenna MIMO systems for radio channels New chapter on spread spectrum signals and systems.
Share a link to All Resources. Instructor Resources. Show order information for All Digital Paper. Previous editions. Fundamentals of Communication Systems. Relevant courses. Communication Systems Engineering: Electrical. Sign In We're sorry! Username Password Forgot your username or password? Sign Up Already have an access code? In addition, authors lighted some main events that raised the need of global communications such as, wars between nations, economics, politics, propaganda, and religious.
Finally the authors studied the history of propaganda, and they argument was that propaganda was the main factor of international broadcasting. George Barnett and Devan Rosen in this chapter studied the internet and its role in human civilization.
First, chapter starts by claiming that the reason of the great success of the internet is the two-way of communication that it features. Second, the social network was given as an example of the internet success.
Lastly, authors illustrated internet through showing the structure of its networks, and the technical idea of building networks. In this chapter, Vibert Cambridge discusses the idea and the need of developing communications abilities for all societies, his argument is the gap of media power between cultures could cause a conflict. Moreover, he started explaining his point of view through using the example of using the media as a powerful weapon in World War II.
Further, Cambridge stated some examples of efforts that have been made to develop communication abilities in number of countries: USA, Turkmenistan, Eritrea, and the Caribbean Community. Finally, to develop communication abilities, the author suggested some strategies: public awareness campaigns, social marketing, entertainment education , and advocacy.
The politics of global communication was adopted from a research was done by Cees Hamelink, who wrote the history politic global communication that started in the 19th century. Next, the author addresses the current practices of politics in global communications by giving some examples of financial issues, property rights, and mass media ownership.
Kamalipour retrieved the relationship between propaganda and the global communication from Richard Vincent research, who marked the origins of propaganda in the 17th century. After, the author discussed the propaganda definition and its connections with public relations and public diplomacy. Moreover, the chapter provides readers with some example of propaganda in war times.
In addition, the Vincent mentioned the strategies of propaganda campaigns, which are labeling the idea, associating the issue or image with a noble term, image transfer, persuading the audience that their idea should be the same as others, and using facts to convince others.
Lastly, the author discussed the use of propaganda in terrorism as an example. Later Kamalipour, used Dean Kruckeberg and Marina Vujnovic article as a source for this chapter of his book. Researchers start point in this chapter was their agreement of the role of public relations in reducing the gap between the organization and its public. Hence, they briefly discussed the history of public relations and its western origins. Moreover, authors discussed the culture differences that influence the public relations practices and advertisements.
For instance, dealing with democratic culture societies is easier than authoritarian societies. In addition, the chapter covers the part culture features that cause changes in the global advertising and public relations such as, environmental challenges, population growth, poverty and hunger, and wars. Further, authors briefly discussed those differences and the role of information gap between among the first, second, and third worlds.
Christine Ogan in this chapter define the culture as a group of people who share the same understanding of life. However, culture used to change slowly, but in the recent global communication era, it is much easier to make significant cultural changes in a society.
In fact, the author blames the western culture to be the most influential culture in the world because the strength of their media. Additionally, there are some cultures that adopt the change easily, and others resist the change. Moreover, global communication contributed in finding the term of stereotype; for example, the world view of America as a pop culture. Finally, Kamalipour conclude his Global Communication book with a chapter that was written by Leo Gher.
This chapter includes examples of current global communication industry that are used around the world such as, the global satellite system, and global internet services.
Additionally, Gher points that some of the concerns of global communications are the privacy and information conflict, and trend of having one large culture in the world with vanishing other cultures. Even though, the book was loaded with a broad contents and issues of global communications that were written in about pages, it was well organized under 14 chapters.
Moreover, reader can touch the high skill writing abilities that Kamalipour has, from the way that the book content flows between the topics, and the basic English that he used to help all readers to understand and enjoy the content.
Further, chapters were divided separately so the reader can easily reach the information that he is looking for without the need of looking in the exact orders of chapters.
According to Kamalipour, the intended audiences of this book are researchers, journalists, international agencies, enterprises, and students. However, my criticism about the book is that it has so many repeated parts of chapters; for example, propaganda that was discussed in two different chapters added, to the repetition of same ideas about the cultural impact and change in many chapters.
Therefore, I think the book serves the audiences who are looking for a part of the content, but not for students who will read and study all over the book. References Kamalipour, Y. It is designed for those in Jordan for whom information and communication is important: citizens, government officials, organizations of civil society, indeed, almost everyone. We seek to describe the system of laws and policies, including basic rights, that affect the way in which information and ideas about public affairs are selected, packaged, distributed, and received.
We try to place rules and regulations in context, at least a public context. It is impossible, here, to describe the complex history, the religious institutions, the geopolitical events and other very considerable matters that affect how speech flows. We concentrate, therefore, on press and media laws and their implementation. This includes not only those institutions and rules designed to advance the free exercise of such activity, but also those that are intended to protect other interests with which this exercise might conflict.
Indeed, the essence of news media law lies in the inherent, continual need to strike the appropriate balance between press freedoms and competing public and private values and interests.
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