Broadcast Reform Proposals
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 196
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Streeter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-04-15
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0226777294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this interdisciplinary study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, Thomas Streeter reverses the usual take on broadcasting and markets by showing that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. Analyzing the processes by which commercial media are organized, Streeter asks how it is possible to take the practice of broadcasting—the reproduction of disembodied sounds and pictures for dissemination to vast unseen audiences—and constitute it as something that can be bought, owned, and sold. With an impressive command of broadcast history, as well as critical and cultural studies of the media, Streeter shows that liberal marketplace principles—ideas of individuality, property, public interest, and markets—have come into contradiction with themselves. Commercial broadcasting is dependent on government privileges, and Streeter provides a searching critique of the political choices of corporate liberalism that shape our landscape of cultural property and electronic intangibles.
Author: Jonathan A. Obar
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2016-08-04
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0823271668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedia reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what effective strategies can be used in the pursuit of effective media reform? Prepared by thirty-three scholars and activists from more than twenty-five countries, Strategies for Media Reform focuses on theorizing media democratization and evaluating specific projects for media reform. This edited collection of articles offers readers the opportunity to reflect on the prospects for and challenges facing campaigns for media reform and gathers significant examples of theory, advocacy, and activism from multinational perspectives.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. Lance Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1108843050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.
Author: Australia. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on Broadcasting Legislation
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781743660782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nathaniel Persily
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1108835554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.
Author: Beata Klimkiewicz
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2010-05-10
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 615521185X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related approach seems to better reflect a media policy process as an interrelated part of European integration, formation of European citizenship, and exercise of communication rights within the European communicative space. The question of normative expectations is to be compared in this case with media policy rationales, mechanisms of implementation (transposing rules from EU to national levels), and outcomes.
Author: Carter Eltzroth
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780821355619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert D. McChesney
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1583671064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement. Moving consistently from critique to action, the book explores the political economy of the media, illuminating its major flashpoints and controversies by locating them in the political economy of U.S. capitalism. It deals with issues such as the declining quality of journalism, the question of bias, the weakness of the public broadcasting sector, and the limits and possibilities of antitrust legislation in regulating the media. It points out the ways in which the existing media system has become a threat to democracy, and shows how it could be made to serve the interests of the majority. McChesney's Rich Media, Poor Democracy was hailed as a pioneering analysis of the way in which media had come to serve the interests of corporate profit rather than public enlightenment and debate. Bill Moyers commented, "If Thomas Paine were around, he would have written this book." The Problem of the Media is certain to be a landmark in media studies, a vital resource for media activism, and essential reading for concerned scholars and citizens everywhere.