Global Media and Communication Policy,Petros Iosifidis

-About this book

– Petros Iosifidis addresses an increasingly prominent subject area in the field of media and communications, and one that has attracted attention in areas such as sociology, economics, political science and law: global media policy and regulation.
This book considers the social, political, economic and technological changes arising from the globalization of the communications industries and assesses their impact on matters of regulation and policy. It focuses on the convergence of the communication and media industries and makes reference to the paradigmatic shift from a system based on the traditions of public service in broadcast and telecommunications delivery, to one that is demarcated by commercialization, privatization and competition. Iosifidis considers the meanings of the public interest concept in exploring the different regulatory modes and the interplay between the local and the global in policy-making, and tackles the question: to what extent do new media developments require changes in regulatory philosophy and objectives?

-contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Guest Foreword
Introduction
Global media and communication policy
Main questions and book structure
Limitations
Part I A Trilogy on the Public Interest in Media
1-Media Policy in the Public Interest
Introduction
Defining the public interest
Public interest, public communication and the
public sphere
Conclusion
2-Media Regulation in the Public Interest
Introduction
Telecommunications
Broadcasting
Print media
Media ownership rules in the USA
Media ownership rules in the UK
Press subsidies
Developments in media and communications since the 1980s  

Narrowing the public service aspect of public interest:

the public interest and free market competition  In support of PSB

A public interest approach to Internet governance  

Media Policy and Regulation in the Public Interest:
Looking Ahead
Introduction
Difficulty in defining the contemporary public interest
Increased reliance on competition regulation
The public interest has been quantified
Policy and regulation have been professionalized
Media policymaking at supranational level
What lies ahead
Part II Global Communication Theories and the Nation-State

4-Global Communication Paradigms  

Introduction  

Modernization theory  

Cultural imperialism theory  

Critical political economy paradigm  

Cultural studies theory  

Media globalization  

Conclusion: the national versus the global

media system as the lead player  

5-Globalization and the Nation-State  

Introduction

Political systems  

From ‘government’ to ‘governance’:

towards a new role for the state?  

Theorizing the process to governance

and the role of the nation-state  

Conclusion: towards ‘state capitalism’?

Part III Supranational Bodies

6-Supranational Bodies, Non-State Actors and

Global Media Policy  

Introduction

World Trade Organization  

United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization  

International Telecommunication Union  

Civil society: the case of the World Summit

on the Information Society  

Internet Corporation for Assigned

Names and Numbers  

World Intellectual Property Organization  

Conclusion

7-Media and Communications Policy in the European Union

Introduction

The growing involvement of the European

Commission in media and communications policy

European Union media policy in the 1980s and 1990s

EU communications policy in the new millennium

Conclusion

Part IV The Convergence Phenomenon and Regulatory Reform

8-The Convergence Phenomenon in Media and Communications

Introduction

Conceptualization of convergence

Technological convergence

Industry convergence

Market convergence

Publisher–user convergence

Conclusion

9-Regulatory Convergence

Introduction

The debate over ‘institutional integration’

The Office of Communications

The Federal Communications Commission

The European Union and competition law

European Commission policy for regulatory convergence

Conclusion

10-Guidelines for Regulatory Reform

Introduction

The rationale for regulation in the digital age

The convergence regulatory framework

The continuing importance of content regulation

Is content regulation still applicable?

The cases for self- and co-regulation

Is media ownership regulation still applicable?

Conclusion

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :26 août 2011

 Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages : 288 pages

ISBN-10 : 1137364351

ISBN-13 : 978-1137364357

Poids de l’article : 394 g

Dimensions : 14 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm