Communications policy : theories and issues

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Author:

Papathanassopoulos, S.

ISBN:

9780230224599

9780230224582

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstock, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description:

xii, 235 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Approaches to communications policy: an introduction / Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Ralph Negrine -- Mediating the public through policy / Sandra Braman -- The age of access? Information policy and social progress / Alistair Duff -- Media and social demand: research at the interface of policy studies and audience studies / Marc Raboy ... [et al.] -- The development of a European civil society through EU public service communication / Jackie Harrison -- The escalating war against corporate media / Robert W. McChesney -- The role of the European institutions in national media regulation / Alison Harcourt -- Public broadcasters in the digital era / Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Ralph Negrine -- Transformations of the state in telecommunications / Johannes M. Bauer -- Coordinating Internet policies: the time has come / Dom Caristi -- Framing the information society: a comparison of policy approaches by the USA and the EU / Gisela Gil-Egui, Yan Tian, Concetta M. Stewart.

Subject Term:

Communication policy.

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Papathanassopoulos, S.

Negrine, Ralph M.

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Summary

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.

Editors:

Stylianos Papathanassopoulos is Professor in Media Organization at the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 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. His previous books include The Transformation of Political Communi cation (Palgrave, 2008), Television and the Press Since 1945 (1999) and The Communication of Politics (1996).

Contributors:

Bram Abramson, Johannes M. Bauer, Sandra Braman, Dom Caristi, Alistair Duff, Gisela Gil-Egui, Alison Harcourt, Jackie Harrison, Robert W. McChesney, Serge Proulx, Marc Raboy, Concetta M. Stewart, Yan Tian and Roxanne Welters.