Global Media and Communication Policy

Abstract

Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication This volume would not have been written without the generous sabbatical scheme of the Department of Sociology, City University London, which allowed me to take research time. I would like to express my gratitude to the anonymous reviewers of the book proposal for their welcome comments and suggestions at the beginning of this effort. I am indebted to Cees Hamelink for providing the Guest Foreword and to Robert Picard, Marc Raboy, Philip Napoli and Terry Flew for writing the blurbs for the back cover. I am also very grateful to

Economía política de los estándares de televisión digital: el caso de América Latina

“…(Resolución 4/2006, Secretaría de Comunicaciones, 27/04/2006 En este trabajo se pretende estudiar qué factores intervienen en la elección de los estándares en América Latina, diferenciando las cuestiones técnicas del resto en la elaboración de las políticas públicas de TDT y en línea con los enfoques contemporáneos que entienden el policy-making como un proceso inseparable de lo político que implica a actores nacionales y supranacionales como manifestación de las tensiones entre estados nacionales y globalización (Chakravartty & Sarikakis, 2006;Freedman, 2008;Iosifidis, 2011) y en el que el juego de intereses dinámicos hace que "ningún actor tenga en realidad completamente el control" (Mcquail & Siune, 1986, p. 14). La juventud -y premura-del proceso de transición digital en Amé-rica Latina hace que no exista aún suficiente literatura científica sobre la cuestión.…”

MENA Region Transformed Media Environment and Media Convergence. UAE Case Study

“…The challenges regarding the need for recognition by the thirsty audience and the payment that is based on the content produced by the company affects the operations of the journalists (Iosifidis, 2011). There are challenges in meeting the interests of the dual-product marketplace, especially concerning the content strategy.…”

One Country, Two Polarised Audiences: Estonia and the Deficiency of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive

“…Based on the collected data and analyses, the article makes concrete suggestions for the improvement of the European media policy. Iosifidis (2013) argues that cultural policy theories understand media and communication from a national perspective and largely neglect the global element, whereas Manning (1999, p. 138) contends that one aspect of globalisation refers to the transnational regulatory systems and the diffusion of a liberal political ide-ology and institutional forms. Iosifidis (2013) suggests globalisation processes, including market-liberalism and free trade policies, have ended up in a situation where the regulatory agencies shift away from public interest measures and normative principles towards more rigorous, yet narrow, economics-based assessments of market power.…”

“…Iosifidis (2013) argues that cultural policy theories understand media and communication from a national perspective and largely neglect the global element, whereas Manning (1999, p. 138) contends that one aspect of globalisation refers to the transnational regulatory systems and the diffusion of a liberal political ide-ology and institutional forms. Iosifidis (2013) suggests globalisation processes, including market-liberalism and free trade policies, have ended up in a situation where the regulatory agencies shift away from public interest measures and normative principles towards more rigorous, yet narrow, economics-based assessments of market power. This is another reason for the emergence of competition policy as the preferred mechanism to manage issues in media and communication at the expense of sector-specific structure and content (Iosifidis, 2013).…”

“…Iosifidis (2013) suggests globalisation processes, including market-liberalism and free trade policies, have ended up in a situation where the regulatory agencies shift away from public interest measures and normative principles towards more rigorous, yet narrow, economics-based assessments of market power. This is another reason for the emergence of competition policy as the preferred mechanism to manage issues in media and communication at the expense of sector-specific structure and content (Iosifidis, 2013). Van Cuilenburg and McQuail (2003) argue that the nature of public interest has changed and that new communication policies aiming to serve the public interest are biased towards economic values.…”