Liberalizing the European Media: Politics, Regulation, and the Public Sphere / Edition 1

by Shalini Venturelli

Overview

This study offers an assessment of the political, cultural, and economic basis of policies for constructing a European Information Society. It concludes that the deregulation of European media has serious consequences for participative democracy of the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198233794
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/07/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1720L (what's this?)

About the Author

School of International Service, American University, Washington

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The Normative Grounds of Information Policy2. Paradigms of Public Space3. Participatory Public Space: A Post-Liberal Framework4. Telecommunications and the Political Design of the Information Infrastructure5. Liberalization of Intellectual Property: The Control of Content6. Audiovisual Background and Conflict of Regulatory Models7. Realist Internationalism and the Competitive Order of the Information Society8. Beyond the Promise of Technology: Communication Rights in the Information SocietyBibliographyIndex