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Author Price, Monroe E., 1938-

Title Media and sovereignty : the global information revolution and its challenge to state power / Monroe E. Price
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002

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Description ix, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Contents I. Remapping of Media Space. 1. New Role of the State. 2. Stability, Transitions, and the Market for Loyalties -- II. Tropes of Restructuring. 3. Metaphor and Model in Media Restructuring. 4. Technologies and the Vocabulary of Change. 5. Illegal and Harmful Content. 6. Newness of New Technology -- III. Negotiating the Changed Media Terrain. 7. Toward a Foreign Policy of Information Space. 8. Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of International Broadcasting. 9. Media Globalization: A Framework for Analysis
Summary "Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than the activities of large conglomerates, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world's consciousness. Changes in formal and informal rules, in addition to technological innovation, affect the growth and survival or decline of governments."
"In Media and Sovereignty Monroe Price focuses on emerging foreign policies that govern media in a world where war has information as well as military fronts. Price asks how the state, in the face of institutional and technological change, controls the forms of information reaching its citizens. He also provides a framework for analyzing the techniques used by states to influence populations in other states. Price draws on an international array of examples of regulation of media for political ends, including "self-regulation," media regulation in conflict zones, the control of harmful and illegal content, and the use of foreign aid to alter media in target societies."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Mass media -- Law and legislation.
Government information.
Freedom of information.
Sovereignty.
Globalization.
LC no. 2002024616
ISBN 0262162113 alkaline paper
0262661861 paperback