Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State

by Calabrese, Andrew; Burgelman, Jean-Claude; Aufderheide, Patricia; Calabrese, Andrew; Garnham, Nicholas; Graham, Andrew; Hawkins, Gay; Henten, Anders; Hope, Wayne; Horwitz, Robert B.; Kellner, Douglas; McNair, Brian; Miller, Toby; Mosco, Vincent; Pauwels,

• ISBN13: 9780847691074
• ISBN10: 0847691071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

What roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid globalization of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy. Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy examines issues of communication technology, neoliberal economic policies, public service media, media access, social movements and political communication, the geography of communication, and global media development and policy, among others, and shows how progressive policymakers must use these bases to confront more directly the debates on contemporary welfare theory and politics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
Andrew Calabrese
Jean-Claude Burgelman
Part I Communication Technology and the Geography of Citizenship	17	(32)
1 The State and the New Geography of Power	17	(16)
Saskia Sassen
2 Citizenship and the Technopoles	33	(16)
Vincent Mosco
Part II The Neoliberal Transition	49	(64)
3 "That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture	49	(16)
Thomas Streeter
4 From Citizenship to Consumer Sovereignty: The Paradigm Shift in European Audiovisual Policy	65	(12)
Caroline Pauwels
5 Will Information Societies Be Welfare Societies?	77	(14)
Anders Henten
6 Ideology, Communication, and Capitalist Crisis: The New Zealand Experience	91	(22)
Wayne Hope
Part III Social Policy in Telecommunications	113	(46)
7 Amartya Sen's "Capabilities" Approach to the Evaluation of Welfare: Its Application to Communications	113	(12)
Nicholas Garnham
8 The Future of the Welfare State and Its Challenges for Communication Policy	125	(12)
Jean-Claude Burgelman
9 Social Movement in Telecommunications: Rethinking the Public Service History of U.S. Telecommunications, 1894-1919	137	(22)
Dan Schiller
Part IV Public Service Broadcasting	159	(32)
10 Public Service Journalism in Post-Tory Britain: Problems and Prospects	159	(14)
Brian McNair
11 Public Service Broadcasting in Australia: Value and Difference	173	(18)
Gay Hawkins
Part V Participatory Politics and Citizen Access	191	(68)
12 Telecommunications Reform in Postapartheid South Africa	191	(18)
Robert B. Horwitz
13 Policies for Participation: Myth, Reality and the Media in Local Initiatives in the United Kingdom	209	(14)
Andrew Graham
14 The Public Interest in U.S. Electronic Media Today: The DBS Debate	223	(16)
Patricia Aufderheide
15 New Technologies, the Welfare State, and the Prospects for Democratization	239	(20)
Douglas Kellner
Part VI Global Media Development and Policy	259	(52)
16 The Welfare State, the Information Society, and the Ambivalence of Social Movements	259	(20)
Andrew Calabrese
17 Television and Citizenship: A New International Division of Cultural Labor?	279	(14)
Toby Miller
18 Communication Policy and Globalization as a Social Project	293	(18)
Marc Raboy
Afterword	311	(4)
Andrew Calabrese
Index	315	(10)
About the Editors and Contributors	325