Allen Palmer

• Ph.D.
• Brigham Young University

For more than fifty years, the U.S. Code has authorized the federal government to disseminate messages about America to international audiences. For at least thirty years, federal law has also prohibited those international propaganda messages from being disseminated within the United States. Given the realities of the acceleration and dispersion o...

One of the first dialogues about international standards of communication was at an 1884 conference in Washington, DC, convened to discuss reforming time standards and designate an international meridian. The emergence of both telegraph and railroad systems had been important precursors of national time zone systems in North America and Europe, but...

Using Kosovo as a case study of the contested space between globalization and local production of cultural meaning, this paper argues that a dilemma of emergent nations is created by the contradictory forces that simultaneously promote transparent openness, and the persistent hidden transcripts that are deeply embedded in, for instance, ethnic iden...

Controversy over the authenticity of the primitive Tasaday tribe discovered in the Philippines in 1971, as well as the selective portrayal of other indigenous groups like the Yanomami in the Amazon, the!Kung San of South Africa, and the “hoaxing” of Margaret Mead in Samoa, point to the need to examine mass media portrayals of anthropological field...

The destruction of the Amazon rain forest is an issue defined primarily through the accounts of environmental journalists who find themselves caught between broad social and cultural forces. Environmentalism is a revolutionary paradigm which runs against traditional modernist tenets of science, but those domains are finding some areas of common gro...

In 1987, a technical memorandum issued by the United States Office of Technol ogy Assessment predicted that the news media eventually will gain access to remote imaging technology, and certain tradeoffs will be necessary because of the possible threats to national security and foreign policy. In 1989, an officer of France's SPOT Image Corp. told a...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Communication, University of Utah, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [243]-260).