The handbook of global media and communication policy / edited by Robin Mansell and Marc Raboy.

Introduction: foundations of the theory and practice of global media and communication policy / Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy.

Part I: Contested concepts: an emerging field. The origins of international agreements and global media: the post, the telegraph, and wireless communication before World War I / Ted Magder -- The evolution of GMCP institutions / Don MacLean -- Whose global village? / William H Melody -- Free flow doctrine in global media policy / Kaarle Nordenstreng -- Human rights and their role in global media and communication discourses / Rikke Frank J̜rgensen -- Policy's hubris: power, fantasy, and the limits of (global) media policy interventions / Nico Carpentier.

Part II: Democratization: policy in practice. Power dynamics in multi-stakeholder policy processes and intra-civil society networking / Bart Cammaerts -- media reform in the United States and Canada: activism and advocacy for media policies in the public interest / Leslie Regan Shade -- Community media in a globalized world: the relevance and resilience of local radio / Kate Coyer -- Global media policy and crisis states / Monroe E Price -- The post-Soviet media and communication policy landscape: the case of Russia / Andrei Richter -- Public service broadcasting: product (and victim?) of public policy / Karol Jakubowicz -- User rights for the Internet age: communications policy according to "Netizens" / Arne Hintz, Stefania Milan.

Part III: Cultural diversity: contesting power. Media research and public policy: tiding over the rupture / Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi -- Whose democracy? rights-based discourse and global intellectual property rights activism / Boatema Boateng -- Global media policy and cultural pluralism / Karim H Karim -- The emergent supranational Arab media policy sphere / Marwan M Kraidy -- The Mediterranean Arab mosaic between free press development and unequal exchanges with the "North" / Jamal Eddine Naji -- Rethinking communication for development policy: some considerations / Linje Manyozo -- The UNESCO convention on cultural diversity: cultural policy and international trade in cultural products / Peter S Grant.

Part IV: Markets and globality. Economic approaches to media policy / Robert G Picard -- Postcolonial media policy under the long shadow of empire / Amin Alhassan, Paula Chakravartty -- Policy imperialism: bilateral trade agreements as instruments of media governance / Andrew Calabrese, Marco Briziarelli -- ICT policy-making and international trade agreements in the Caribbean / Hopeton S Dunn -- Legislation, regulation, and management in the South African broadcasting landscape: a case study of the South African Broadcasting Corporation / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli -- Regulation as linguistic engineering / Roberta G Lentz.

Part V: Governance: new policy and research challenges. Gender and communication policy: struggling for space / Margaret Gallagher -- The environment and global media and communication policy / Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller -- Anti-terrorism and the harmonization of media and communication policy / Sandra Braman -- Regulating the Internet in the interests of children: emerging European and international approaches / Sonia Livingstone -- From television without frontiers to the digital big bang: the EU's continuous efforts to create a future-proof internal media market / Caroline Pauwels, Karen Donders -- Actors and interactions in global communication governance: the heuristic potential of a network approach / Claudia Padovani, Elena Pavan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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