Book review: Trends in World Communication

Hamelink, Cees J(1994) Trends in World Communication, Southbound Sdn Bhd, Penang, Malaysia. 168 pages. ISBN: 983-9054-06-6 Reviewed by Ahmad Murad Merican If ever the majority of the world's populations sit in conference to discuss global communication, the organizer would probably be bombarded with a litany of questions, all of which may sound like: "Have we been invited?" Hamelink's view of contemporary discourses on the state of global communications runs counter to conventional wisdom, describing it as a metaphor which is "attractive, lucid, simple, and wrong".