Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media and the Internet, former Head of the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Canada.

• Figures and Tables viiiAbout the Editors xNotes on Contributors xiSeries Editor’s Preface xviAcknowledgements xvii1 Introduction: Foundations of the Theory and Practice of Global Media and Communication Policy 1Robin Mansell and Marc RaboyPart I Contested Concepts: An Emerging Field 212 The Origins of International Agreements and Global Media: The Post, the Telegraph, and Wireless Communication Before World War I 23Ted Magder3 The Evolution of GMCP Institutions 40Don MacLean4 Whose Global Village? 58William H. Melody5 Free Flow Doctrine in Global Media Policy 79Kaarle Nordenstreng6 Human Rights and Their Role in Global Media and Communication Discourses 95Rikke Frank Jørgensen7 Policy’s Hubris: Power, Fantasy, and the Limits of (Global) Media Policy Interventions 113Nico CarpentierPart II Democratization: Policy in Practice 1298 Power Dynamics in Multi-stakeholder Policy Processes and Intra-civil Society Networking 131Bart Cammaerts9 Media Reform in the United States and Canada: Activism and Advocacy for Media Policies in the Public Interest 147Leslie Regan Shade10 Community Media in a Globalized World: The Relevance and Resilience of Local Radio 166Kate Coyer11 Global Media Policy and Crisis States 180Monroe E. Price12 The Post-Soviet Media and Communication Policy Landscape: The Case of Russia 192Andrei Richter13 Public Service Broadcasting: Product (and Victim?) of Public Policy 210Karol Jakubowicz14 User Rights for the Internet Age: Communications Policy According to “Netizens” 230Arne Hintz and Stefania MilanPart III Cultural Diversity: Contesting Power 24315 Media Research and Public Policy: Tiding Over the Rupture 245Biswajit Das and Vibodh Parthasarathi16 Whose Democracy? Rights-based Discourse and Global Intellectual Property Rights Activism 261Boatema Boateng17 Global Media Policy and Cultural Pluralism 276Karim H. Karim18 The Emergent Supranational Arab Media Policy Sphere 293Marwan M. Kraidy19 The Mediterranean Arab Mosaic between Free Press Development and Unequal Exchanges with the “North” 306Jamal Eddine Naji20 Rethinking Communication for Development Policy: Some Considerations 319Linje Manyozo21 The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity: Cultural Policy and International Trade in Cultural Products 336Peter S. GrantPart IV Markets and Globality 35322 Economic Approaches to Media Policy 355Robert G. Picard23 Postcolonial Media Policy Under the Long Shadow of Empire 366Amin Alhassan and Paula Chakravartty24 Policy Imperialism: Bilateral Trade Agreements as Instruments of Media Governance 383Andrew Calabrese and Marco Briziarelli25 ICT Policy-making and International Trade Agreements in the Caribbean 395Hopeton S. Dunn26 Legislation, Regulation, and Management in the South African Broadcasting Landscape: A Case Study of the South African Broadcasting Corporation 414Ruth Teer-Tomaselli27 Regulation as Linguistic Engineering 432Roberta G. LentzPart V Governance: New Policy and Research Challenges 44928 Gender and Communication Policy: Struggling for Space 451Margaret Gallagher29 The Environment and Global Media and Communication Policy 467Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller30 Anti-terrorism and the Harmonization of Media and Communication Policy 486Sandra Braman31 Regulating the Internet in the Interests of Children: Emerging European and International Approaches 505Sonia Livingstone32 From Television without Frontiers to the Digital Big Bang: The EU’s Continuous Efforts to Create a Future-proof Internal Media Market 525Caroline Pauwels and Karen Donders33 Actors and Interactions in Global Communication Governance: The Heuristic Potential of a Network Approach 543Claudia Padovani and Elena PavanIndex 564