Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy

Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State
Herausgeber: Calabrese, Andrew; Burgelman, Jean-Claude

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780847691081
• ISBN-10: 084769108X
• Artikelnr.: 22481931

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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