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Author: Robert Britt Horwitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0195054458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHorwitz here examines the history of telecommunications to build a compelling new theory of regulation, showing how anti-regulation rhetoric has often had unintended and unwanted effects on American industry.
Author: Robert Britz Horwitz
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven K. Vogel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1501717308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past fifteen years, the United States, Western Europe, and Japan have transformed the relationship between governments and corporations. The changes are complex and the terms used to describe them often obscure the reality. In Freer Markets, More Rules, Steven K. Vogel dispenses with euphemisms and makes sense of this recent transformation. In defiance of conventional wisdom, Vogel contends that the deregulation revolution of the 1980s and 1990s never happened. The advanced industrial countries moved toward liberalization or freer markets at the same time that they imposed reregulation or more rules. Moreover, the countries involved did not converge in regulatory practice but combined liberalization and reregulation in markedly different ways. The state itself, far more than private interest groups, drove the process of regulatory reform. Thus, the story of deregulation is one rich in paradox: a movement aimed at reducing regulation increased it; a movement propelled by global forces reinforced national differences; and a movement that purported to reduce state power was led by the state itself. Vogel's astute and far-reaching analysis compares deregulation in Britain and Japan, with special attention to the telecommunication and financial services industries. He also considers such important sectors as broadcasting, transportation, and utilities in the United States, France, and Germany.
Author: Jean-Pierre Chamoux
Publisher: IOS Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789051990553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of European communications policy research issues as presented by leading academic researchers, policy-makers and senior industry actors in the communications sector. Coverage include competition policies, regulatory issues, public service obligations and limited resources allocation.
Author: Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007-09-03
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0822390299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting original programs such as Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Rugrats (and producing related movies, Web sites, and merchandise), Nickelodeon has worked aggressively to claim and maintain its position as the preeminent creator and distributor of television programs for America’s young children, tweens, and teens. Banet-Weiser argues that a key to its success is its construction of children as citizens within a commercial context. The network’s self-conscious engagement with kids—its creation of a “Nickelodeon Nation” offering choices and empowerment within a world structured by rigid adult rules—combines an appeal to kids’ formidable purchasing power with assertions of their political and cultural power. Banet-Weiser draws on interviews with nearly fifty children as well as with network professionals; coverage of Nickelodeon in both trade and mass media publications; and analysis of the network’s programs. She provides an overview of the media industry within which Nickelodeon emerged in the early 1980s as well as a detailed investigation of its brand-development strategies. She also explores Nickelodeon’s commitment to “girl power,” its ambivalent stance on multiculturalism and diversity, and its oft-remarked appeal to adult viewers. Banet-Weiser does not condemn commercial culture nor dismiss the opportunities for community and belonging it can facilitate. Rather she contends that in the contemporary media environment, the discourses of political citizenship and commercial citizenship so thoroughly inform one another that they must be analyzed in tandem. Together they play a fundamental role in structuring children’s interactions with television.
Author: Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0814799507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks beyond broadcasting's mainstream, toward cable's alternatives, to critically consider the capacity of commercial media to serve the public interest. This work offers an overview of the industry's history and regulatory trends, case studies of cable newcomers aimed at niche markets, and analyses of programming forms introduced by cable TV.
Author: Seamus Simpson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-29
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1317516451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedia policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond. This book brings together the work of a range of leading media policy scholars to provide inroads to a better understanding of how effective media policies can be developed to ensure a healthy communication sector that contributes to the wellbeing of individual citizens, as well as a more democratic society. Faced with a general atmosphere of disillusionment in the European project, one of the core questions tackled by the volume’s contributors is: what scope is there for European media policy that can exist beyond the national level? Uniquely, the volume’s chapters are structured around four key policy themes: media convergence; the continued role and position of public regulatory intervention in media policy; policy issues arising from the development of new electronic communication network environments; and lessons for European media policy from cases beyond the EU. In its chapters, the volume provides enriched understandings of the role and significance of policy actors, institutions, structures, instruments and processes in communication and media policy.
Author: Helen Sun
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-07-10
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0739169998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternet Policy in China: A Field Study of Internet Cafés reports the results of a multi-layered study of the Internet café phenomenon in the People's Republic of China. Helen Sun investigates how the Internet has been used by the state and individuals, as well as the implications of Chinese Internet policies and regulations.
Author: Susan L. Brinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-05-30
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0313084955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Red Scare at the FCC started when James Lawrence Fly led the agency in many important decisions that were inspired by the New Deal. These decisions outraged both the broadcasting industry and politically conservative legislators, causing them to accuse the FCC of Communist sympathies. This book analyzes the political transition taken by the FCC that turned it into an agency that fully participated in the Red Scare of the 1950s. This book analyzes many significant FCC cases and policies that have never been considered within the context of New Deal policymaking or its impact. This work is the first to look into the impact of the Red Scare on an executive agency. Its combination of new archival and behind-the- scenes information makes this book a great addition to the growing body of research on media history and regulation.
Author: James F. Hamilton
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780739118672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocratic Communications is the first book to subject long-standing assumptions about alternative media and democratic communications to a detailed cultural and historical examination and critique. Ranging from prophecy in sixteenth-century England to the self-managed projects of critical literacy and social change of today, this book assesses the historical heritage present conditions, and future possibilities of today's remade media landscape for democratic communications. Book jacket.
