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What roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid globalization of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy. Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy examines issues of communication technology, neoliberal economic policies, public service media, media access, social movements and political communication, the geography of communication, and global media development and policy, among others, and shows how progressive policymakers must use these bases to confront more directly the debates on contemporary welfare theory and politics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Communication Technology and the Geography of Citizenship
Chapter 3 The State and the New Geography of Power
Chapter 4 Citizenship and the Technopoles
Part 5 The Neoliberal Transition
Chapter 6 That Deep Romantic Chasm: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture
Chapter 7 From Citizenship to Consumer Sovereignty: The Paradigm Shift in European Audiovisual Policy
Chapter 8 Will Information Societies Be Welfare Societies?
Chapter 9 Ideology, Communication, and Capitalist Crisis: The New Zealand Experience
Part 10 Social Policy in Telecommunications
Chapter 11 Amartya Sen's "Capabilities" Approach to the Evaluation of Welfare: Its Application to Communications
Chapter 12 The Future of the Welfare State and Its Challenges for Communication Policy
Chapter 13 Social Movement in Telecommunications: Rethinking the Public Service History of U.S. Telecommunications, 1894-1919
Part 14 Public Service Broadcasting
Chapter 15 Public Service Journalism in Post-Tory Britain: Problems and Prospects
Chapter 16 Public Service Broadcasting in Australia: Value and Difference
Part 17 Participatory Politics and Citizen Access
Chapter 18 Telecommunications Reform in Postapartheid South Africa
Chapter 19 Policies for Participation: Myth, Reality, and the Media in Local Initiatives in the United Kingdom
Chapter 20 The Public Interest in U.S. Electronic Media Today: The DBS Debate
Chapter 21 New Technologies, the Welfare State, and the Prospects for Democratization
Part 22 Global Media Development and Policy
Chapter 23 The Welfare State, the Information Society, and the Ambivalence of Social Movements
Chapter 24 Television and Citizenship: A New International Division of Cultural Labor?
Chapter 25 Communication Policy and Globalization as a Social Project
Chapter 26 Afterword
Chapter 27 Index
Chapter 28 About the Editors and Contributors

Product details

Published Feb 18 1999
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 340
ISBN 9780847691081
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Andrew Calabrese

Anthology Editor

Jean-Claude Burgelman

Contributor

Andrew Graham

Contributor

Gay Hawkins

Contributor

Anders Henten

Contributor

Wayne Hope

Contributor

Douglas Kellner

Contributor

Brian McNair

Contributor

Toby Miller

Contributor

Vincent Mosco

Contributor

Marc Raboy

Contributor

Saskia Sassen

Contributor

Dan Schiller

Contributor

Thomas Streeter

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