Frontmatter -- ABSTRACT -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- COMPANION PUBLICATION -- Preface: Dynamics of the Right to Communicate -- PART I. The General Concept: Some Introductions -- The Right to Communicate: An Evolutive Concept for a New Personal and Social Dimension of a Fundamental Human Right -- The Right to Communicate: Emerging Concept and International Policy -- It's a Long Way to Communication -- Is Asia Alone in Its Ambivalence? -- Four Rights of Communication: A Personal Memorandum -- PART II. Specific Communication Rights: Analysis of the Concept -- The Right to Communicate: A Philosophical Framework for the Debate -- Freedom to Communicate: An American Perspective -- A Right to Communicate: A Canadian Approach -- Communications Rights: A Latin American Perspective -- The Right to Receive Communications: A Thought Worth Entertaining -- PART III. Basic Issue Areas: Resources, Needs, Rights -- Scarcity, Abundance, and the Right to Communicate -- Development Journalism and the Right to Communicate -- Progress of Technology and Social Problems of Mass Communication -- The Economic Dimensions of the Right to Communicate -- The Right to Communicate and the Arabian Nights Tales -- PART IV. Communication Environment: Some General Perspectives -- A Sociologist's View of the Right to Communicate -- The Right to Communicate as Seen in Developing Countries -- The Right to Communicate -- The Right to Communicate: The Indonesian Case -- The Right to Communicate