Communications Policy Theories and Issues

by Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos; Negrine, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9780230224599
• ISBN10: 0230224598
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Culture, politics, economics and technology all impact upon policy decisions. This book explores relevant theory and research from across these fields to introduce key debates and developments in communications policy. With contributions from leading scholars, this book is key reading for all students, researchers and policy makers.

Author Biography

Stylianos Papathanassopoulos is Professor in Media Organization at the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of Television in the 21st Century (2005), Media and Politics (2004) and European Television in the Digital Age: Issues, Dynamics and Realities (2002). Ralph Negrine is Professor of Political Communication in the Journalism Studies Department at the University of Sheffield, UK. His previous book include The Transformation of Political Communication (2008), Television and the press since 1945 (1999) and The Communication of Politics (1996).

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Theories
Approaches to Communications Policy: An Introduction	p. 3
Policy and communications: in search of definitions	p. 3
Communications policy and the state	p. 11
The organization of this book	p. 18
Mediating the Public through Policy	p. 22
Introduction	p. 22
Definitional approaches	p. 34
Defining media policy for the 21st century	p. 37
Exemplar media policy issues	p. 43
Conclusions	p. 46
Notes	p. 47
The Age of Access? Information Policy and Social Progress	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
The future of information policy	p. 60
Conclusion: towards the age of access	p. 63
Media and Social Demand: Research at the Interface of Policy Studies and Audience Studies	p. 65
Policy studies/audience studies: issues at the interface	p. 66
Policy studies: one problem, two traditions	p. 68
Audience studies: consumers and citizens	p. 69
Regarding social demand	p. 72
Notes	p. 79
The Development of a European Civil Society through EU Public Service Communication	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
The context of Europe's communication deficit	p. 82
The significance of Europe's communication deficit	p. 86
A European audiovisual communication institution of public news journalism	p. 91
Notes	p. 93
Issues
The Escalating War against Corporate Media	p. 97
The media reform movement comes to life	p. 97
Powell and Copps take the stage	p. 100
Beltway opposition stiffens	p. 101
Powell's three arguments	p. 102
Opposition grows beyond the beltway	p. 105
Left and right join the fight	p. 108
From the FCC to Congress	p. 110
Notes	p. 115
The Role of the European Institutions in National Media Regulation	p. 116
Introduction	p. 116
Convergence in national media policies	p. 117
Conclusion	p. 129
Notes	p. 131
Public Broadcasters in the Digital Age	p. 133
The position of the public service broadcasters in Europe	p. 133
Old challenges, new challenges	p. 137
Concluding remarks for policy considerations	p. 145
Transformations of the State in Telecommunications	p. 148
Introduction	p. 148
The state as owner and operator	p. 150
The state as a regulator	p. 153
The state as a facilitator and stopgap	p. 159
The role of the state reconsidered	p. 161
Review and outlook	p. 164
Notes	p. 165
Coordinating Internet Policies: The Time has Come	p. 166
Introduction	p. 166
Cross-border issues	p. 167
A proposal	p. 176
Framing the Information Society: A Comparison of Policy Approaches by the USA and the EU	p. 179
Background	p. 180
Method	p. 184
Results	p. 185
Discussion and conclusions	p. 196
Notes	p. 198
Endnote: Prospects for Communications Policy Research	p. 200
References	p. 204
Index	p. 229
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