Table of Contents
Figures and Tables viii
Notes on Contributors x
Series Editor's Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvi
1 Introduction: Foundations of the Theory and Practice of Global Media and Communication Policy 1 Robin Mansell and Marc Raboy
Part I Contested Concepts: An Emerging Field 21
2 The Origins of International Agreements and Global Media: The Post, the Telegraph, and Wireless Communication Before World War I 23 Ted Magder
3 The Evolution of GMCP Institutions 40 Don MacLean
4 Whose Global Village? 58 William H. Melody
5 Free Flow Doctrine in Global Media Policy 79 Kaarle Nordenstreng
6 Human Rights and Their Role in Global Media and Communication Discourses 95 Rikke Frank Jørgensen
7 Policy's Hubris: Power, Fantasy, and the Limits of (Global) Media Policy Interventions 113 Nico Carpentier
Part II Democratization: Policy in Practice 129
8 Power Dynamics in Multi-stakeholder Policy Processes and Intra-civil Society Networking 131 Bart Cammaerts
9 Media Reform in the United States and Canada: Activism and Advocacy for Media Policies in the Public Interest 147 Leslie Regan Shade
10 Community Media in a Globalized World: The Relevance and Resilience of Local Radio 166 Kate Coyer
11 Global Media Policy and Crisis States 180 Monroe E. Price
12 The Post-Soviet Media and Communication Policy Landscape: The Case of Russia 192 Andrei Richter
13 Public Service Broadcasting: Product (and Victim?) of Public Policy 210 Karol Jakubowicz
14 User Rights for the Internet Age: Communications Policy According to "Netizens" 230 Arne Hintz and Stefania Milan
Part III Cultural Diversity: Contesting Power 243
15 Media Research and Public Policy: Tiding Over the Rupture 245 Biswajit Das and Vibodh Parthasarathi
16 Whose Democracy? Rights-based Discourse and Global Intellectual Property Rights Activism 261 Boatema Boateng
17 Global Media Policy and Cultural Pluralism 276 Karim H. Karim
18 The Emergent Supranational Arab Media Policy Sphere 293 Marwan M. Kraidy
19 The Mediterranean Arab Mosaic between Free Press Development and Unequal Exchanges with the "North" 306 Jamal Eddine Naji
20 Rethinking Communication for Development Policy: Some Considerations 319 Linje Manyozo
21 The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity: Cultural Policy and International Trade in Cultural Products 336 Peter S. Grant
Part IV Markets and Globality 353
22 Economic Approaches to Media Policy 355 Robert G. Picard
23 Postcolonial Media Policy Under the Long Shadow of Empire 366 Amin Alhassan and Paula Chakravartty
24 Policy Imperialism: Bilateral Trade Agreements as Instruments of Media Governance 383 Andrew Calabrese and Marco Briziarelli
25 ICT Policy-making and International Trade Agreements in the Caribbean 395 Hopeton S. Dunn
26 Legislation, Regulation, and Management in the South African Broadcasting Landscape: A Case Study of the South African Broadcasting Corporation 414 Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
27 Regulation as Linguistic Engineering 432 Roberta G. Lentz
Part V Governance: New Policy and Research Challenges 449
28 Gender and Communication Policy: Struggling for Space 451 Margaret Gallagher
29 The Environment and Global Media and Communication Policy 467 Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller
30 Anti-terrorism and the Harmonization of Media and Communication Policy 486 Sandra Braman
31 Regulating the Internet in the Interests of Children: Emerging European and International Approaches 505 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 525 Caroline Pauwels and Karen Donders
33 Actors and Interactions in Global Communication Governance: The Heuristic Potential of a Network Approach 543 Claudia Padovani and Elena Pavan
Index 564