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Democratization and Communication Rights

  • Escraches: demonstrations, communication and political memory in post-dictatorial Argentina

    Escraches: demonstrations, communication and political memory in post-dictatorial Argentina

    This article examines escraches, a new form of political demonstration in post-dictatorial Argentina where hundreds of torturers and assassins have benefited from amnesty laws. The lack of truth and accountability has had social and cultural consequences. The demonstrations, which challenge legalized impunity, engage with contemporary issues of memory and communication concerning the 'Dirty War' of 1976-83.

    by Susana Kaiser
    2008

  • Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies

    Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies

    This book explores the relationship between media and democracy against the broader background of globalization. It addresses issues that have defined the challenges and consequences of media transformation faced by new and emerging democracies.

    by Isaac A. Blankson, Patrick D. Murphy
    2008

  • Critical Social Movements and Media Reform

    Critical Social Movements and Media Reform

    The article places media reform within the context of Critical Social Movements, which are defined as movements committed to the empowerment of the marginalized and that challenge the hegemonies of dominant group and institutions.

    by Robert A. Hackett, William K. Carroll
    2008

  • Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication

    Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication

    This is a co-authored book of all new material on the topic of media democracy and activism. The authors look at alternate forms of activism to redress the imbalance in the media. They consider ways in which new media like the internet could be used to allow multiple perspectives of the same event, rather than only one side of the story being broadcast, and then consider how this still negates the reason for the activism as the internet is not available to all.

    by Robert A. Hackett, William K. Carroll
    2008

  • Lies the Media Tell Us: How Continuing Disinformation Erodes Public Awareness and Strengthens Ruling Class

    Lies the Media Tell Us: How Continuing Disinformation Erodes Public Awareness and Strengthens Ruling Class

    Understanding how media shape our thinking about social issues, and believing that our limited direct experiences leave us vulnerable tot eh duplicity ad disinformation of the corporate media, James Winter records examples of from corporate owners, managers, advertisers and journalists themselves of the use, misuse and abuse of information.

    by James Winter
    2008

  • Culture and Democracy: Media, Space and Representation

    Culture and Democracy: Media, Space and Representation

    Clive Barnett considers the trajectories of media and democracy into the 21st century. He does so in a variety of political and cultural settings - in the USA and Europe, and in South Africa before and after apartheid. This account should interest all students and scholars of media and politics.

    by Clive Barnett
    2008

  • Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy

    Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy

    This edited book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications. It underscores lived experiences in its approach to globalization showing that the state and the market can both be sites of empowerment, just as civil society might also be a site of repression.

    by Paula Chakravartty, Yuezhi Yao
    2008

  • Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory

    Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory

    This article considers how we are to understand democratic media activism, which has recently burgeoned in Canada, the UK and the USA. What is its political significance and potential? Is it a new social movement, a new style of politics cutting across movements, or are new concepts needed?

    by William K. Carroll, Robert A. Hackett
    2008

  • The limits of media democratization in South Africa: politics, privatization and regulation

    The limits of media democratization in South Africa: politics, privatization and regulation

    This article critically examines the processes that have limited the development of a democratic media system in post-apartheid South Africa. After a brief overview of the formation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, the evolution of the ANC's economic policies and approach to privatization is discussed.

    by Clive Barnett
    2008

  • Public Broadcasting for the 21st Century

    Public Broadcasting for the 21st Century

    This global report on the questions of public service broadcasting examines the situation of public broadcasting worldwide in a number of different contexts and from a variety of thematic perspectives. Various contributors look at how, despite the current turbulence affecting national broadcast systems everywhere, the idea of broadcasting as public service continues to inspire creators, producers, programmers, and policymakers

    by Marc Raboy
    2008


 
 
 

Communication rights enable all people everywhere to express themselves individually and collectively by all means of communication. They are vital to full participation in society and are, therefore, universal human rights belonging to every man, woman, and child.

 

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