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1 online resource (438 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1Introduction; Chapter 2 Communication Policy Research: Looking Back, Moving Forward; Part I New Theories; Chapter 3 Prospects and Pitfalls of Douglass North's New Institutional Economics Approach for Global Media Policy Research; Chapter 4 'It's the Idea, Stupid!' How Ideas Challenge Broadcasting Liberalization; Chapter 5 The Accountability and Legitimacy of Regulatory Agencies in the Communication Sector; Chapter 6 Change and Divergence in Regulatory Regimes:A Comparative Study of Product Placement Regulation |
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Chapter 7 Technologies as Institutions: Rethinking the Role of Technology in Media Governance Constellations; Chapter 8 Veto Players and the Regulation of Media Pluralism: A New Paradigm for Media Policy Research?; Part IINew Methods; Chapter 9 A Political Scientist's Contribution to the Comparative Study of Media Systems in Europe: A Response to Hallin and Mancini; Chapter 10 What We Talk about When We Talk about Document Analysis; Chapter 11 Qualitative Network Analysis: An Approach to Communication Policy Studies |
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Chapter 12 Towards a Media Policy Process Analysis Model and Its Methodological Implications; Part III New Subjects; Convergence; Chapter 13 Battle of the Paradigms: Defining the Object and Objectives of Media/Communication Policy; Chapter 14 Content Control and Digital Television: Policy, Technology and Industry; Chapter 15 Regulating and Monitoring Online Activities of Public Service Broadcasters: The Case of Switzerland; State Aid; Chapter 16 Conditional Access for Public Service Broadcasting to New Media Platforms: EU State-Aid Policy vis-à-vis Public Service Broadcasting -- the Dutch Case |
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Chapter 17 Film Support in the EU: The Uteca Case and the Future Challenges for the 'Main Characters'; Chapter 18 New Approaches to the Development of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Europe? The Evolution of European Union Policy for Next-Generation Networks; Participation, Power & the Role of Gender; Chapter 19 Public Service Television in European Union Countries: Old Issues, New Challenges in the 'East' and the 'West'; Chapter 20 Civil Society and Media Governance: A Participatory Approach |
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Chapter 21 Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone: Unfolding Gender Conscious Research for Communication and Cultural Policy Theory; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Technological, economic and social trends are changing the context of communication policy. Determining the precise beginning of communication policy-making and the attendant idea of researching it systematically is difficult. It is often said to have begun with the emergence of telegraphy, telephony and wireless communication and not with the traditional mass media. Convergence, liberalization, commercialization, new media (e.g. the Internet and mobile communication), audience fragmentation and globalization are only a few of the more notable terms that describe this change. The question of h |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Communication policy -- Research
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Kommunikation -- forskning.
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Policyforskning.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781841506883 |
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1841506885 |
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