Telecommunications Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Telecommunications Politics write by Bella Mody. This book was released on 1995. Telecommunications Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Rich Media, Poor Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rich Media, Poor Democracy write by Robert W. McChesney. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Rich Media, Poor Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An updated edition of the “penetrating study” examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky). What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all the hype about the democratizing power of the internet, is this new technology living up to its promise? Since the publication of this prescient work, which won Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize and the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, the concentration of media power and the resultant “hypercommercialization of media” has only intensified. Robert McChesney lays out his vision for what a truly democratic society might look like, offering compelling suggestions for how the media can be reformed as part of a broader program of democratic renewal. Rich Media, Poor Democracy remains as vital and insightful as ever and continues to serve as an important resource for researchers, students, and anyone who has a stake in the transformation of our digital commons. This new edition includes a major new preface by McChesney, where he offers both a history of the transformation in media since the book first appeared; a sweeping account of the organized efforts to reform the media system; and the ongoing threats to our democracy as journalism has continued its sharp decline. “Those who want to know about the relationship of media and democracy must read this book.” —Neil Postman “If Thomas Paine were around, he would have written this book.” —Bill Moyers
Citizens, Politics and Social Communication
Citizens, Politics and Social Communication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizens, Politics and Social Communication write by R. Robert Huckfeldt. This book was released on 1995-01-27. Citizens, Politics and Social Communication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another and they generally arrive at political decisions through processes of social interaction and deliberation. This book is dedicated to investigating the political implications of interdependent citizens within the context of the 1984 presidential campaign as it was experienced in the metropolitan area of South Bend, Indiana. Hence this is a community study in the fullest sense of the term. National politics is experienced locally through a series of filters unique to a particular setting and its consequences for the exercise of democratic citizenship.
Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications
Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications write by Kirsten Rodine-Hardy. This book was released on 2013-03-25. Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations – not national governments or market forces – are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.
The Politics of Telecommunications
The Politics of Telecommunications - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Telecommunications write by Mark Thatcher. This book was released on 1999. The Politics of Telecommunications available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book confronts some of the most important questions related to liberalization, regulation, and the role of the nation state in an increasingly international economy. In the face of powerful transitional pressures for change, to what extent are states able to maintain stable institutional frameworks? Do different domestic structures generate dissimilar patterns of policy-making and economic performance? How important are past institutional choices to subsequent reform? The author addresses these questions through a study of the transformations of a strategic economic sector, telecommunications, in Britain and France over the past three decades. It analyses the theoretical strengths and weaknesses of various models of public policy formation and, the role and reform of national institutions and the continuing role of the nation state.
