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Liberalizing the European Media: Politics, Regulation, and the Public Sphere » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Shalini Venturelli
ISBN-13: 9780198233794, ISBN-10: 0198233795
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Shalini Venturelli

School of International Service, American University, Washington

Book Synopsis

This study offers an assessment of the political, cultural, and economic basis of policies for constructing a European Information Society. It concludes that the deregulation of European media has serious consequences for participative democracy of the future.

Table of Contents

Introduction1
1The Normative Grounds of Information Policy8
2Paradigms of Public Space35
3Participatory Public Space: A Post-Liberal Framework73
4Telecommunications and the Political Design of the Information Infrastructure104
5Redefinition of Intellectual Property: The Control of Content139
6Audiovisual Battleground and Conflict of Regulatory Models187
7Realist Internationalism and the Competitive Order of the Information Society232
8Beyond the Promise of Technology: Communication Rights in the Information Society254
AppSelected Articles from the Treaty of Rome283
References285
Index309

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