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: 9780847691081
• ISBN10: 084769108X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-18
• 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
Introduction	p. 1
Communication Technology and the Geography of Citizenship
The State and the New Geography of Power	p. 17
Citizenship and the Technopoles	p. 33
The Neoliberal Transition
"That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture	p. 49
From Citizenship to Consumer Sovereignty: The Paradigm Shift in European Audiovisual Policy	p. 65
Will Information Societies Be Welfare Societies?	p. 77
Ideology, Communication, and Capitalist Crisis: The New Zealand Experience	p. 91
Social Policy in Telecommunications
Amartya Sen's "Capabilities" Approach to the Evaluation of Welfare: Its Application to Communications	p. 113
The Future of the Welfare State and Its Challenges for Communication Policy	p. 125
Social Movement in Telecommunications: Rethinking the Public Service History of U.S. Telecommunications, 1894-1919	p. 137
Public Service Broadcasting
Public Service Journalism in Post-Tory Britain: Problems and Prospects	p. 159
Public Service Broadcasting in Australia: Value and Difference	p. 173
Participatory Politics and Citizen Access
Telecommunications Reform in Postapartheid South Africa	p. 191
Policies for Participation: Myth, Reality and the Media in Local Initiatives in the United Kingdom	p. 209
The Public Interest in U.S. Electronic Media Today: The DBS Debate	p. 223
New Technologies, the Welfare State, and the Prospects for Democratization	p. 239
Global Media Development and Policy
The Welfare State, the Information Society, and the Ambivalence of Social Movements	p. 259
Television and Citizenship: A New International Division of Cultural Labor?	p. 279
Communication Policy and Globalization as a Social Project	p. 293
Afterword	p. 311
Index	p. 315
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 325
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