Is media democratization a social movement?

Hackett, Robert A.; Adam, Megan

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“…This logic could very well be behind the disregard for media reform as a required element in any kind of social reform by the protesters' movement, which was invested in establishing alternative media outlets. Studies have demonstrated that media activists trying to promote change by working from "within" the media are less likely to voluntarily critique the ills of the media structure (Hackett & Adam, 1999). However, the assumption that alternative media alone can promote change does not really hold water for long, and there are a variety of reasons for this: first, audiences are still attentive to the traditional media (Averbuch, 2012), and there is no online outlet that can compete in its popularity with commercial radio or television.…”

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“What Is Wrong Cannot Be Made Right”? Why Has Media Reform Been Sidelined in the Debate Over “Social Justice” in Israel?

Schejter¹,

Tirosh²

2015

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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When hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in the summer of 2011, protesting the high cost of living and demanding "social justice," the ills of the media system including its concentration, the growing digital divide, and the implosion of public broadcasting were not made part of the social movement's agenda. This study employs a justice-based theory for media, analyzing three types of "products" of the social movement: the unionization of media workers, the establishment of alternative media, and the reports recommending regulatory/institutional reform. We attempt to understand why media reform, an essential element without which social justice cannot be fully achieved, has been sidelined in the debate over the ways to achieve "social justice" in Israel.

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“What Is Wrong Cannot Be Made Right”? Why Has Media Reform Been Sidelined in the Debate Over “Social Justice” in Israel?

Schejter¹,

Tirosh²

2015

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“…b. A "bottom-up power" perspective, including the place of CRs within social movements theory , and the works on alternative media (Howley 2003), on network and coalition media governance (Dichter 2005), the democratization of communication policies (Hackett & Adam 1999), and the creation-in-progress of a transnational civil society (Price 2003, Van Audenhove et al 2002. c. A global governance perspective, examining CRs as facilitators of the rise of new actors in the international arena (O'Siochru 2004), the role of the public vs. the role of institutions in global media governance processes (Brown 2004, Holman 2005, the relation between state sovereignty, international law and CRs (McIver et al 2004), and the hypotheses for a "universal project" for CRs (Caras 2004).…”

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Investigating Evolving Discourses On Human Rights in the Digital Age

Padovani

Musiani

Pavan

2010

International Communication Gazette

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In a digital context that is profoundly transforming social interactions in different domains and at different levels, the label "communication rights" (CRs) has emerged in recent years suggesting the need to better articulate the principles and rights pertaining to communication processes in society: principles and rights which should be recognized as guidelines to set normative standards of behavior in such a transformed communicative environment.

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“…Together with trends in the newspaper industry, where Thomson and Hollinger propose to sell off all their smaller market presses, diversity in information and news are genuinely threatened. A two-or three-tier market of communication entitlement is emerging, with smaller centres left without either commercial newspapers or television, and a minimal news presence in local radio (Hackett & Adam, 1999). Does this contravene the right to access to information?…”

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Wellsprings of Knowledge: Beyond the CBC Policy Trap

Murray

2001

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Abstract:The CBC/Radio Canada is in a policy trap which is endemic to all cultural policy today. A casualty of the 1990s policy focus on the cultural industries, the traditional public interest discourse has failed to gain a toehold in arguments favouring a continued state role in the development of cultural capital. This paper explores a cultural capital perspective and argues for a closer link with and co-ordination between education and culture in policy fields at both the theoretical and operational levels. The paper concludes that the instrumental utility of a cultural capital approach is ultimately too limiting. What is needed is a theoretical shift from public interest rhetoric to a democratic rights-based discourse. Such a shift in the conceptual underpinnings of cultural policy implies radical decentralization and deconcentration of control within the CBC. New models of democratic cultural governance are needed to reclaim public broadcasting.Résumé: Radio-Canada/CBC s'empêtre dans des politiques communes à toute culture politique aujourd'hui. Le discours traditionnel sur l'intérêt public, victime des politiques des années 90 axées sur les industries culturelles, n'a pas réussi à s'infiltrer dans les arguments favorisant une participation soutenue de l'état dans le développement du capital culturel. Cet article examine une perspective appuyant cette idée de capital culturel et prône un rapport et une coordination plus étroites entre éducation et culture dans les politiques, autant au niveau théorique qu'opérationnel. Cet article conclut qu'une approche prônant l'idée de capital culturel a en fin de compte une utilité instrumentale trop limitée. Il faudrait plutôt changer d'approche, passant d'une rhétorique défendant l'intérêt public à un discours démocratique fondé sur les droits de la personne. Une telle modification dans la conception des politiques culturelles entraînerait l'appui d'une décentralisation et déconcentration radicales à Radio-Canada. En somme, pour reconquérir la radiodiffusion publique, il nous faudrait de nouveaux modèles de gouvernance culturelle démocratique.The CBC is in a policy trap: controversies over shutting down supper hour news, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) license renewal decisions, and allegations of political editorial tampering during the Gustafson Lake and APEC affairs swirl around the CBC while its television

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Is media democratization a social movement?

Cited by 10 publications

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“What Is Wrong Cannot Be Made Right”? Why Has Media Reform Been Sidelined in the Debate Over “Social Justice” in Israel?

“What Is Wrong Cannot Be Made Right”? Why Has Media Reform Been Sidelined in the Debate Over “Social Justice” in Israel?

Investigating Evolving Discourses On Human Rights in the Digital Age

Wellsprings of Knowledge: Beyond the CBC Policy Trap

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