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Data Base on Social
Communication and Internet
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Foundation's Data Base on Social Communication is a computerized data base
designed to provide consultation services for researchers, professors,
students, journalists and all those interested in the communication media.
The goal of the COMSOC, as it is also known, is to build up a documentation
center specializing in communication through the systematization and classification
of journalist materials. The classification system used to file the materials
is based on a computer program created by the Unesco: Micro cds/isis, which
allows files to be created similar to that of library catalogues. In addition,
short summaries of the information can be accessed. The data bank currently
houses more than 17,000 entries on cinema, photography, comics, press,
advertising, publicity, telecommunications, radio, television and video.
References are catalogued by date, publication, author, title, synthesis,
topic, sub-topics and names of persons and institutions. The data base
currently supplies the content of the RMC's informational supplement, Bitácora
de RMC. The Manuel Buendía Foundation has made available -thanks
to the support of the University of Colima- a CD-ROM that contains the
content of all issues (until number 42) of the
Revista Mexicana de Comunicación.
A substantial part of this collection will soon be available for the international
public through the Internet. Through its web page, the Foundation already
offers the main articles from the most recent issues of the magazine and
maintains contact with persons and institutions worldwide. |
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