(P/B) COMMUNICATIONS POLICY

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Culture, politics, economics and technology all impact upon policy decisions. To investigate the factors that influence communications policy, however, one has to go beyond conventional views of media and communication studies and combine these with policy studies. Communications Policy: Theories and Issues utilizes new research to highlight key debates and developments, and addresses a broad spectrum of contemporary concerns regarding the structure and the organization of communications systems in the past, present and future.

Combining theoretical analysis with empirical research findings, this comprehensive text explores the contemporary theories and issues in communications policy that affect all democratic societies as they seek to address the challenges of emerging information and communications technologies. Featuring contributions from distinguished authors across a range of media disciplines, Communications Policy introduces challenging ideas about how communications should be structured in the future and is essential reading for all policy makers, researchers and students of communications policy. (From the publisher)

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List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part One: Theories
1 Approaches to Communications Policy: An Introduction - Stylianos Papathanassopoulos and Ralph Negrine Policy and communications: in search of definitions
Communications policy and the state
The organization of this book
2 Mediating the Public through Policy - Sandra Braman
Introduction
Definitional approaches
Defining media policy for the 21st century
Exemplar media policy issues Conclusions
Notes
3 The Age of Access? Information Policy and Social Progress - Alistair Duff Introduction
The future of information policy Conclusion: towards the age of access
4 Media and Social Demand: Research at the Interface of Policy Studies and Audience Studies - Marc Raboy, Bram Abramson, Serge Proulx and Roxanne Welters
Policy studies/audience studies: issues at the interface
Policy studies: one problem, two traditions
Audience studies: consumers and citizens
Regarding social demand
Notes
5 The Development of a European Civil Society through EU Public Service Communication - Jackie Harrison Introduction
The context of Europe's communication deficit
The significance of Europe's communication deficit
A European audiovisual communication institution of public news journalism
Notes
Part Two: Issues
6 The Escalating War against Corporate Media - Robert W. McChesney
The media reform movement comes to life
Powell and Copps take the stage
Beltway opposition stiffens
Powell's three arguments
Opposition grows beyond the beltway
Left and right join the fight
From the FCC to Congress
Notes
7 The Role of the European Institutions in National Media Regulation - Alison Harcourt
Introduction
Convergence in national media policies Conclusion
Notes
8 Public Broadcasters in the Digital Age - Stylianos Papathanassopoulos and Ralph Negrine
The position of the public service broadcasters in Europe
Old challenges, new challenges
Concluding remarks for policy considerations
9 Transformations of the State in Telecommunications - Johannes M. Bauer Introduction
The state as owner and operator
The state as a regulator
The state as a facilitator and stopgap The role of the state reconsidered
Review and outlook
Notes
10 Coordinating Internet Policies: The Time has Come - Dom Caristi
Introduction
Cross-border issues
A proposal
11 Framing the Information Society: A Comparison of Policy Approaches by the USA and the EU - Gisela Gil-Egui, Yan Tian and Concetta M. Stewart
Background
Method
Results
Discussion and conclusions
Notes
Endnote: Prospects for Communications Policy Research - Stylianos Papathanassopoulos and Ralph Negrine
References
Index