Includes index.

Contents: Media research and growth: Communication policy and research -- Assessing the analytical value of the concept of 'genre' -- Challenges facing the Ghanaian media in this information age -- The media and the public interest: Public service media, public interest and the public sphere -- Adult concerns over television viewing by children -- The media, national development and democracy: Differential development of regional media -- The media and national development -- Professionalisation in the media -- Media in the democratic process: the centrality of source-media relations -- The power and influence of the media as the fourth estate of the realm.