The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

by Mansell, Robin; Raboy, Marc

• ISBN13: 9781405198714
• ISBN10: 1405198710
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays from top scholars in the field Includes contributions from western and eastern Europe, North and Central America, Africa and Asia Offers new conceptual frameworks and new methodologies for mapping the contours of emergent global media and communication policy Draws on theory and empirical research to offer multiple perspectives on the local, national, regional and global forums in which policy debate occurs

Author Biography

Robin Mansell is Professor and Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, former Head of the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science and Past President of the International Association for Media and Communications Research. She is co-author of Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity (2000) and editor of books including The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies (2007) and Trust and Crime in Information Societies (2005) and some 100 journal articles and reports in the media and communication policy field.

Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. A former journalist in a wide variety of media, he is the author or editor of seventeen books and more than one hundred journal articles or book chapters, as well as reports for such organizations as the World Bank, UNESCO, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, the European Broadcasting Union, the Policy Research Secretariat of the Government of Canada, and the Quebec Ministry for Culture and Communication.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables.

Notes on Contributors.

Series Editor's Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Introduction: Foundations of the Theory and Practice of Global Media and Communication Policy (Robin Mansell and Marc Raboy).

Part I Contested Concepts: An Emerging Field.

2 The Origins of International Agreements and Global Media: The Post, the Telegraph, and Wireless Communication Before World War I (Ted Magder).

3 The Evolution of GMCP Institutions (Don MacLean).

4 Whose Global Village? (William H. Melody).

5 Free Flow Doctrine in Global Media Policy (Kaarle Nordenstreng).

6 Human Rights and Their Role in Global Media and Communication Discourses (Rikke Frank Jørgensen).

7 Policy's Hubris: Power, Fantasy, and the Limits of (Global) Media Policy Interventions (Nico Carpentier).

Part II Democratization: Policy in Practice.

8 Power Dynamics in Multi-stakeholder Policy Processes and Intra-civil Society Networking (Bart Cammaerts).

9 Media Reform in the United States and Canada: Activism and Advocacy for Media Policies in the Public Interest (Leslie Regan Shade).

10 Community Media in a Globalized World: The Relevance and Resilience of Local Radio (Kate Coyer).

11 Global Media Policy and Crisis States (Monroe E. Price).

12 The Post-Soviet Media and Communication Policy Landscape: The Case of Russia (Andrei Richter).

13 Public Service Broadcasting: Product (and Victim?) of Public Policy (Karol Jakubowicz).

14 User Rights for the Internet Age: Communications Policy According to "Netizens" (Arne Hintz and Stefania Milan).

Part III Cultural Diversity: Contesting Power.

15 Media Research and Public Policy: Tiding Over the Rupture (Biswajit Das and Vibodh Parthasarathi).

16 Whose Democracy? Rights-based Discourse and Global Intellectual Property Rights Activism (Boatema Boateng).

17 Global Media Policy and Cultural Pluralism (Karim H. Karim).

18 The Emergent Supranational Arab Media Policy Sphere (Marwan M. Kraidy).

19 The Mediterranean Arab Mosaic between Free Press Development and Unequal Exchanges with the "North" (Jamal Eddine Naji).

20 Rethinking Communication for Development Policy: Some Considerations (Linje Manyozo).

21 The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity: Cultural Policy and International Trade in Cultural Products (Peter S. Grant).

Part IV Markets and Globality.

22 Economic Approaches to Media Policy (Robert G. Picard).

23 Postcolonial Media Policy Under the Long Shadow of Empire (Amin Alhassan and Paula Chakravartty).

24 Policy Imperialism: Bilateral Trade Agreements as Instruments of Media Governance (Andrew Calabrese and Marco Briziarelli).

25 ICT Policy-making and International Trade Agreements in the Caribbean (Hopeton S. Dunn).

26 Legislation, Regulation, and Management in the South African Broadcasting Landscape: A Case Study of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (Ruth Teer-Tomaselli).

27 Regulation as Linguistic Engineering (Roberta G. Lentz).

Part V Governance: New Policy and Research Challenges.

28 Gender and Communication Policy: Struggling for Space (Margaret Gallagher).

29 The Environment and Global Media and Communication Policy (Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller).

30 Anti-terrorism and the Harmonization of Media and Communication Policy (Sandra Braman).

31 Regulating the Internet in the Interests of Children: Emerging European and International Approaches (Sonia Livingstone).

32 From Television without Frontiers to the Digital Big Bang: The EU's Continuous Efforts to Create a Future-proof Internal Media Market (Caroline Pauwels and Karen Donders).

33 Actors and Interactions in Global Communication Governance: The Heuristic Potential of a Network Approach (Claudia Padovani and Elena Pavan).

Index.