This edited volume addresses current challenges, trends and transformations in global communication governance. Exploring changes in the actors, issues, values and contexts of media and communications, it investigates the crossroads that media policy is facing and offers visions for the future. A diverse range of scholars and expert practitioners discuss what regulatory reforms and governing mechanisms are required to advance democratic participation and fundamental rights in platform societies.
Organized around five sections, the volume considers the geopolitics of emerging communication orders; the changing roles of actors and stakeholders; the challenge of embedding rights and values in regulatory arrangements; the intersection of technology and policy; and the need to rethink epistemologies and methodologies for researching this field.
Contributions from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds include provocative think pieces and longer analyses. All chapters are grounded in historically-aware understandings of contemporary transformations, while anticipating dynamics of our communication futures.
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1. Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication Governance in a
post-Covid World. Daya Thussu.
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2. The Turn of the Pink Tide: lessons
from Latin American media policies. Guillermo Mastrini, Patricia Marenghi,
Angel Badillo.
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3. Theorizing ICT Governance in Small Island
Developing States: A Global South context. Alpha Obika.
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4. The
Growing Fragmentation of Global Internet Policy: The nationalisation of
internet regulation and its consequences. Julia Pohle, Daniel Voelson.-
Chapter 5: The EU's Digital Services Act and Changes to US Antitrust Laws.
Allison Harcourt.
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6. Title TBC. Maria Michalis.
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7. Spheres
of Cooperaton: Participation, deception and enhanced cooperation in internet
governance. Luca Belli.
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8. The Return of the Regulatory State:
Nation-states as policy actors in digital platform governance. Terry Flew.-
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9. Policy Responses to Digital Communication Platforms. Lean
d'Haenens, Hanno Nieminen, BarbaraThomass, Josef Trappel.
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10.
Anchoring Digital Rights: Digital constitutionalism in hard times. Edoardo
Celeste, Dennis Redeker, Mauro Santaniello.
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11. Seeking Anchors of
Equity and Social Justice in the Digital Domain. J. Parminder Singh, S.
O'Siochru, S. Burch.
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12. Rethinking Global Communication Governance
through Gender-transformative Lenses. Claudia Padovani, Aimee Vega Montiel,
Kaithy Mendes.
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13. Understanding Infrastructure as (Internet)
Governance. Francesa Musiani.- Chapter
14. Drafting Laws for High Stakes
Technologies in Times of Crisis: Participatory internet law during a global
pandemic. Lilian Edwards.
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15. The Public and Private Techlash: New
coalitions and strategic directions in the pursuit of legitimate governance
of online content. Jeremy Shtern, Stephanie Hill.
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16. Methods for
Media Policy Research. Manuel Puppis, Hilde Van de Bulck.
Chapter
17. World
Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development. Guy Berger.
Chapter
18. Title TBC. Preeti Ragunath.
Claudia Padovani is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Padova. Veronique Wavre is Researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Arne Hintz is Reader at Cardiff Universitys School of Journalism, Media and Culture. Gerard Goggin is Professor of Media and Communications at the University ofSydney. Petros Iosifidis is Professor in Media Policy at City, University of London.