Communication Rights and Social Justice [electronic resource] : Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations /
Padovani, C.editor.
Calabrese, A.editor.
Placing struggles for communication rights within the broader context of human rights struggles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this broad-based collection offers a rich range of illustrations of national, regional and global struggles to define communication rights as essential to human needs and happiness.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Communication Struggles in a Globalizing Context; 1 Communication Rights and the History of Ideas; 2 Communication Rights and Media Justice between Political and Discursive Opportunities: An Historical Perspective; 3 Living the New International Information Order; 4 Continuities and Change in the Nexus of Communication and Development; 5 Are States Still Important? Reflections on the Nexus between National and Global Media and Communication Policy
Part II: Mobilizing Communications: Regional Perspectives and Practices6 The Democratization of Communication: Latin American Perspectives and Initiatives; 7 Beyond the Dominant Paradigm of Communication Rights? Observations from South Asia; 8 Establishing a 'Rights Regime' in Iran: Thinking Communications, Politics and Gender Together; 9 Communication Rights as a Networking Reality: Community Radio in Europe; 10 Media Reform and Communication Rights in the USA; Part III: Ongoing Resistance, New Frames and Changing Narratives; 11 Media Justice and Communication Rights
12 Bringing Communication Back In: Social Movements and Media13 Reframing Communication Rights: Why Gender Matters; 14 Practising Communication Rights: Cases from South Korea and Honduras; 15 Communication Rights and Neoliberal Development: Technopolitics in India; 16 Remixing the Spring! Connective Leadership and Read-Write Practices in the 2011 Arab Uprisings; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Placing struggles for communication rights within the broader context of human rights struggles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this broad-based collection offers a rich range of illustrations of national, regional and global struggles to define communication rights as essential to human needs and happiness.
Cultural policy.
Culture.
Intellectual life—History.
Political communication.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Political science.
Cultural Policy and Politics.
Sociology of Culture.
Intellectual Studies.
Political Communication.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Political Science.