IRRC No. 276

Communication in the world today: one-way distribution or two-way sharing

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A hazy or changeable concept, communication in its modern form as a technique for sending and receiving messages does not fit into any single or standard discipline. It extends outside the areas in which attempts are made to confine it, from the range of application of the humanities to the operational zones of telecommunications empires. After the ethnologists and sociologists, the linguists and the systems experts, the cyberneticists and the psychiatrists had attributed diverse meanings to it, communication in the broad sense and in its day-to-day reality entered its operational period in the 1980s with the new technology of information and communication.

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Communication in the world today: one-way distribution or two-way sharing author: Sylvie Boiton-Malherbe

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A global Red Cross and Red Crescent identity author: George Reid, Michèle Mercier

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1. Communication and dissemination: Moroccan Red Crescent: Practical aspects of information and dissemination author: Ben Saoud Badreddine

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2. Communication and community services: Malawi Red Cross Society: Communication to promote community services author: Grace Paliani

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3. Communication, recruitment of members and fund-raising: The Netherlands Red Cross: Communication to raise funds for humanitarian activities author: Marcel P. L. Vergeer

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4. Communication and public at large: American Red Cross: Communication excellence and the public at large author: Ann Stingle, Bud Good

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5. The Red Cross, the Red Crescent and the media: Bulgarian Red Cross: The Red Cross and the media: mutually beneficial relationship author: Encho Gospodinov

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Finnish Red Cross: Support for information services in developing National Societies author: Helena Korhonen

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