Democratizing communication? : comparative perspectives on information and power / edited by Mashoed Bailie, Dwayne Winseck. - xiv, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Hampton communication series. International communication . - Hampton communication series. International communication .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Critical Communication Studies and Theories of Communication and Democracy -- Political Economy, Communication and Policy -- Critical Communication Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratical Life -- The Communication Revolution: The Market and the Prospect for Democracy -- Communication Policy in the United States -- Democratic Potentials Versus Instrumental Goals in Canadian Telecommunications -- Restructuring the Spanish Television Industry -- New Communication Policies and Communication Technologies in the Caribbean -- Discourses of Democratic Communication and the Archaeology of Information Technology in South Korea -- Think Globally, Program Locally: Privatization of Indian National Television -- The Evolution of China's Media Function During the 1980s: A New Model in a New Era? -- Broadcasting in Transition: Media Freedom Between Political Freedom and Economic Pressures in Eastern and Central Europe -- Mexican NGO Computer Networking and Cross-Border Coalition Building -- The Extended Pulpit: Church-Media Alliance in Kenyan Politics -- Is There a U.S. Foreign Policy in Telecommunications? Transatlantic Trade Policy as a Case Study -- The Shifting Contexts of International Communication: Possibilities for a New World Information and Communication Order -- The New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) in the Context of the Information Superhighway -- World Communication: Business as Usual? -- Author Index -- Subject Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

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Communication policy
Democracy.
Communication--International cooperation

P95.8 / .D44 1997

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