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Contents: Monroe E. Price: Press Freedom Measures: An Introduction - Lee B. Becker/Tudor Vlad: The Conceptualization and Operationalization of Country-Level Measures of Media Freedom - Patrick McCurdy/Gerry Power/Anna Godfrey: When Theory... more
Contents: Monroe E. Price: Press Freedom Measures: An Introduction - Lee B. Becker/Tudor Vlad: The Conceptualization and Operationalization of Country-Level Measures of Media Freedom - Patrick McCurdy/Gerry Power/Anna Godfrey: When Theory Meets Practice: Critical Reflections from the Field on Press Freedom Indices - Andrew Puddephatt: Examining and Critiquing Existing Measures of Media Development - Fackson Banda: What Are We Measuring? A Critical Review of Media Development Assessment Tools - Guobin Yang: Press Freedom and Transnational Online Activism in China - Christina Holtz-Bacha: Freedom of the Press: Is a Worldwide Comparison Possible and What is it Good For? - Andrei Richter: Post-Soviet Perspective on Evaluating Censorship and Freedom of the Media - Derek E. Bambauer: Comparing Cybersieves - Nicole Stremlau: Towards a New Approach to Evaluation - Craig L. LaMay: What Works? The Problem of Program Evaluation - Andy Mosher: Good, But How Good? Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Assistance Projects - Susan Abbott/Maureen Taylor: Measuring the Impact of Media Assistance Programs: Perspectives on Research-Practitioner Collaboration - Shanthi Kalathil: Measuring the Media: Examining the Interdisciplinary Approach - Thomas Jacobson/Lingling Pan/ Seung Joon Jun: Indicators of Citizen Voice for Assessing Media Development: A Communicative Action Approach - Russell S. Sobel/Nabamita Dutta/Sanjukta Roy: Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? - Silvio Waisbord: The Global Promotion of Media Diversity: Revisiting Operational Models and Bureaucratic Imperatives.
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This chapter explores the complex negotiation of Internet policies in different national contexts—and how that relates to borders and boundaries of new technologies. It commences an inquiry into competing discourses and asks how those... more
This chapter explores the complex negotiation of Internet policies in different national contexts—and how that relates to borders and boundaries of new technologies. It commences an inquiry into competing discourses and asks how those competing discourses interact with civil society and other interests in local, regional, and transnational debates about the meaning and future architecture of the Internet. The chapter has its origins in a conference on boundaries at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, concerned with transcending the all-too-human, fleeting, but consequential lines that divide polities and territories. My talk there was titled “Of Ghosts and Vampires: Rethinking Information Flow.” It contained a formulation designed to capture global trends, global thinking, as the Internet increasingly became a contested area for defining and limiting power. The point was finding a way to reinvent rhetorical characterizations that, themselves, affect the implementation of technologies. These characterizations on a broad scale challenge forms of national regulation or, to the contrary, helped to confirm the state.
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ABSTRACT The combination of globalization, liberalization and convergence of communication markets has triggered major changes in the governance arrangement of the communications sector, including the growing role of alternative modes of... more
ABSTRACT The combination of globalization, liberalization and convergence of communication markets has triggered major changes in the governance arrangement of the communications sector, including the growing role of alternative modes of regulation (e.g., self- and co-regulation). These alternatives to traditional statutory regulation are marked by a stronger involvement of non-governmental actors in regulatory processes. Both industry and policymakers consider alternative modes of regulation to have great potential for solving contemporary problems of communications regulation. The increase in alternative regulatory institutions, their potential advantages and disadvantages as compared to state regulation, and challenges of governance choice between available modes of regulation have led to an increasing political and scientific interest in self- and co-regulation. This chapter brings together central findings from research on alternative modes of regulation in the convergent communications sector, focusing on results regarding evidence, legitimacy and governance choice.
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Strategic communications can have a crucial role in mitigating violent conflict and encouraging peacebuilding. This article focuses on how strategic communicators, who are often in leadership positions in a society, can have a positive... more
Strategic communications can have a crucial role in mitigating violent conflict and encouraging peacebuilding. This article focuses on how strategic communicators, who are often in leadership positions in a society, can have a positive role in peacebuilding by listening to stresses and managing expectations around post-conflict transitions or economic development; foster social cohesion in divided societies through conveying a national vision, a sense of interdependency or framing transitional justice processes; and moderate polarizing language, from hate speech to public opinion polls. While considering a range of media, we give special attention to the role of new Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) for strategic communicators, including both the opportunities and challenges that these technologies offer.
Research Interests: African Studies, International Relations, Communication, Media Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and 15 moreInternational Studies, International Development, Leadership, Public Diplomacy, Conflict, Political Science, Africa, Political communication, Strategic Communication, Conflict Resolution, Leadership Development, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Politics and International relations, Routledge, and Conflict Avoidance
Review(s) of: Russian Media Law and Policy in the Yeltsin Decade: Essays and Documents, by Price, Monroe Eo, Richter, Andrei and Yu, Peter K. (eds), Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2002, ISBN 9 0411 8877 0, 572 pp. US$I30.00.... more
Review(s) of: Russian Media Law and Policy in the Yeltsin Decade: Essays and Documents, by Price, Monroe Eo, Richter, Andrei and Yu, Peter K. (eds), Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2002, ISBN 9 0411 8877 0, 572 pp. US$I30.00. Distributor: Kluwer Law International.
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Page 1. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND DOCTRINAL PERSISTENCE: TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM IN CONGRESS AND THE COURT Monroe E. Price* John F. Duffy** In recent years, both the Supreme Court and ...
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Taming Red Lion: The First Amendment and Structural Approaches to Media Regulation ByMonroe E. Price* Introduction There are orphans of the law ... The fairness doctrine has been singled out as being one of the most signifi-cant... more
Taming Red Lion: The First Amendment and Structural Approaches to Media Regulation ByMonroe E. Price* Introduction There are orphans of the law ... The fairness doctrine has been singled out as being one of the most signifi-cant contributors to bland rather than controversial ...
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Beyond NETmundial: The Roadmap for Institutional Improvements to the Global Internet Governance Ecosystem explores options for the implementation of a key section of the “NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement” that was adopted at the... more
Beyond NETmundial: The Roadmap for Institutional Improvements to the Global Internet Governance Ecosystem explores options for the implementation of a key section of the “NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement” that was adopted at the Global Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial) held on April 23rd and 24th 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil. The Roadmap section of the statement concisely sets out a series of proposed enhancements to existing mechanisms for global internet governance, as well as suggestions of possible new initiatives that the global community may wish to consider. The sixteen chapters by leading practitioners and scholars are grouped into six sections: The NETmundial Meeting; Strengthening the Internet Governance Forum; Filling the Gaps; Improving ICANN; Broader Analytical Perspectives; and
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This informal collection is designed to further a dialogue about the relationship between communications research and policy making. In particular it focuses on the impact of academic research on communications policy, and whether, and... more
This informal collection is designed to further a dialogue about the relationship between communications research and policy making. In particular it focuses on the impact of academic research on communications policy, and whether, and how, policy draws upon research (if at all). As quasi-editors (and commissioners of these essays) we have been highlighting various assumptions in the process. These assumptions mark every stage of the question (of the relevance of what academics do to what policy makers do). They mark an idealized mode of thinking about policy-making—an idealized mode sometimes articulated in legislation or judicial decision (or agency practice). The assumptions include the following: • Good and democratic policy making should be based upon an informed deliberation, and include relevant research findings. • Policy making involves problem solving, guided change and conflict resolution. • Communications research should be (designed to be) an important input into policy
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This workbook seeks to provide some background to the Global Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial) scheduled for April 23rd and 24th 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil. It is designed to help outline the internet policy issues... more
This workbook seeks to provide some background to the Global Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial) scheduled for April 23rd and 24th 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil. It is designed to help outline the internet policy issues that are at stake and will be discussed at NETmundial, as well as background on internet policy in Brazil. The workbook includes essays on the history of the NETmundial meeting and the Marco Civil process in Brazil; some background on the environment in Germany—with particular attention to the link between the meeting and the Snowden case; questions of legitimacy surrounding open processes for lawmaking; and comments on the material presented to the organizing committee by official and unofficial commenters. This workbook was produced as a part of the Internet Policy Observatory, a program at the Center for Global Communication Studies, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. It was edited and curated by a steering ...
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The Researching Attitudes towards Peace and Conflict in Darfur project seeks to inform the ongoing peace process in Darfur by providing the various institutions involved in the mediation efforts with a deeper understanding of Darfurians’... more
The Researching Attitudes towards Peace and Conflict in Darfur project seeks to inform the ongoing peace process in Darfur by providing the various institutions involved in the mediation efforts with a deeper understanding of Darfurians’ perspectives on the causes of the conflict, its impact on their lives, and the role of the international community in its resolution. The project was initiated at the request of Albany Associates (www.albanyassociates.com), which was contracted by the UK’s Department for International Development in 2006 to engage in communication about the Darfur peace process among the population of Darfur and other key stakeholders on behalf of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) and later United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). The project is a partnership of the Center for Global Communication Studies (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) and the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, and is funded ...
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Dramatic symmetries in strategies and techniques of persuasion create challenges to the functioning of established actors in the global media ecology, including international broadcasters. This essay articulates an adaptation of the... more
Dramatic symmetries in strategies and techniques of persuasion create challenges to the functioning of established actors in the global media ecology, including international broadcasters. This essay articulates an adaptation of the concept of asymmetric warfare to the field of propaganda, persuasion and recruitment. It examines the particular challenge of certain asymmetric entrants, including ISIS and categorizes how the more traditional entities and government institutions react to these new entrants in markets for loyalties.
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Governing and regulating the use of communication satellites and their signals is becoming increasingly difficult for governments and multilateral organizations. This article takes forward the question arising from the characterization of... more
Governing and regulating the use of communication satellites and their signals is becoming increasingly difficult for governments and multilateral organizations. This article takes forward the question arising from the characterization of satellites as `trade routes in the sky' (Price, 1999), as to whether it is more appropriate to look for regional themes and models for state intervention rather than a global system of governance.
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In the summer of 2007, the Center for Global Communications Studies’s team of researchers – consisting of Benjamin Fernandez Bogado, Emilene Martinez-Morales, Bethany Davis Noll, and Kyle Bell – began a follow-up study to assess the... more
In the summer of 2007, the Center for Global Communications Studies’s team of researchers – consisting of Benjamin Fernandez Bogado, Emilene Martinez-Morales, Bethany Davis Noll, and Kyle Bell – began a follow-up study to assess the effectiveness and usefulness of the recommendations generated by the Center’s 2006 study1 as well as to report on any institutional changes at the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information in Mexico (“IFAI”) and changes in the political and legal landscape. In June 2007, the team visited IFAI, met with IFAI’s commissioners, and conducted a set of working group discussions with (1) representatives of the obligated agencies and IFAI, (2) representatives from NGOs, and (3) representatives from the media. This summary report was prepared with information gleaned during those sessions as well as from background research conducted by the team. Click here to view the original report. Disciplines Communication | International and Area Studies Creative C...
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Every new technology transforms the world around it. A century ago, in a gentle preface to his novel Under the Greenwood Tree Thomas Hardy wrote of the transformation of little church orchestras in village England. Humble and amateur... more
Every new technology transforms the world around it. A century ago, in a gentle preface to his novel Under the Greenwood Tree Thomas Hardy wrote of the transformation of little church orchestras in village England. Humble and amateur community instrumentalists were being displaced by an "isolated organist" employing a newly manufactured and more cheaply distributed technology, the harmonium or barrel organ. The new device presented certain advantages in control and accomplishment, but, he suggested, the change caused the stultification of the clergy's aims and resulted in loss of interest among parishioners. In these tiny hamlets the technology of musical development had consequences for participation, organization of the institution, the nature of the music that was played, and, Hardy seemed to be saying, for country life as well. Of these multiple and small transformations major changes in society take place. Comments NOTE: At the time of publication, author Monroe P...
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THE EXTENSIVE REFORMS of the International Telecommunication Union, the result of extraordinary efforts over the last decade to redefine the future of international regulation, have not reduced the call for even stronger global... more
THE EXTENSIVE REFORMS of the International Telecommunication Union, the result of extraordinary efforts over the last decade to redefine the future of international regulation, have not reduced the call for even stronger global jurisdiction over the booming growth and cascading transnational impact of telecoms and media organisations. In this essay, I examine the underlying tensions that make international agreement on a Global Communications Commission, with tough law-making and regulatory authority, so hard to achieve. My method is to project from the national experience to the transnational. I argue that media law and regulation, in the national context, enacts what I call a market for loyalties. Law serves to mediate among groups competing to affect or control national identity. Only if there is consensus among the major competitors in this market (which, as we shall see, is different from the market for goods), does law come effectively into play. Media law and regulation, with...
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Few will deny that public service broadcasting--broadcasting that is controlled neither by the state nor by private media corporations--is an essential ingredient in modern democracy. But, as a number of initiatives in transition... more
Few will deny that public service broadcasting--broadcasting that is controlled neither by the state nor by private media corporations--is an essential ingredient in modern democracy. But, as a number of initiatives in transition economies have shown, the inception and development of a strong public broadcasting system is a Herculean task that is easily sidetracked by politics or ideology, or stalled by lack of funding. Especially when state budgets are stretched, the expense is hard to justify. This collection of documents, comments, and cases brings all the major issues in public service broadcasting policy into focus and sets the problems to be addressed in sharp relief. It draws on white papers from NGOs and broadcasters, legislation from a wide range of countries (and a model law), accounts of public broadcasting efforts in transition states, analyses of evolving policy in established systems, government regulatory guidelines, and a great deal more. Among the matters touched up...