Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State
What roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid globalization of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy. Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy examines issues of communication technology, neoliberal economic policies, public service media, media access, social movements and political communication, the geography of communication, and global media development and policy, among others, and shows how progressive policymakers must use these bases to confront more directly the debates on contemporary welfare theory and politics.
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Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State
What roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid globalization of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy. Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy examines issues of communication technology, neoliberal economic policies, public service media, media access, social movements and political communication, the geography of communication, and global media development and policy, among others, and shows how progressive policymakers must use these bases to confront more directly the debates on contemporary welfare theory and politics.
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Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State

Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State

Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State

Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State

Overview

What roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid globalization of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy. Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy examines issues of communication technology, neoliberal economic policies, public service media, media access, social movements and political communication, the geography of communication, and global media development and policy, among others, and shows how progressive policymakers must use these bases to confront more directly the debates on contemporary welfare theory and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780847691081
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 02/18/1999
Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 340
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Andrew Calabrese is associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Jean-Claude Burgelman is professor of national and international communication policy at the Free University of Brussels.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Communication Technology and the Geography of Citizenship
Chapter 3 The State and the New Geography of Power
Chapter 4 Citizenship and the Technopoles
Part 5 The Neoliberal Transition
Chapter 6 That Deep Romantic Chasm: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture
Chapter 7 From Citizenship to Consumer Sovereignty: The Paradigm Shift in European Audiovisual Policy
Chapter 8 Will Information Societies Be Welfare Societies?
Chapter 9 Ideology, Communication, and Capitalist Crisis: The New Zealand Experience
Part 10 Social Policy in Telecommunications
Chapter 11 Amartya Sen's "Capabilities" Approach to the Evaluation of Welfare: Its Application to Communications
Chapter 12 The Future of the Welfare State and Its Challenges for Communication Policy
Chapter 13 Social Movement in Telecommunications: Rethinking the Public Service History of U.S. Telecommunications, 1894-1919
Part 14 Public Service Broadcasting
Chapter 15 Public Service Journalism in Post-Tory Britain: Problems and Prospects
Chapter 16 Public Service Broadcasting in Australia: Value and Difference
Part 17 Participatory Politics and Citizen Access
Chapter 18 Telecommunications Reform in Postapartheid South Africa
Chapter 19 Policies for Participation: Myth, Reality, and the Media in Local Initiatives in the United Kingdom
Chapter 20 The Public Interest in U.S. Electronic Media Today: The DBS Debate
Chapter 21 New Technologies, the Welfare State, and the Prospects for Democratization
Part 22 Global Media Development and Policy
Chapter 23 The Welfare State, the Information Society, and the Ambivalence of Social Movements
Chapter 24 Television and Citizenship: A New International Division of Cultural Labor?
Chapter 25 Communication Policy and Globalization as a Social Project
Chapter 26 Afterword
Chapter 27 Index
Chapter 28 About the Editors and Contributors
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