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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Theories | |
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| Approaches to Communications Policy: An Introduction | |
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| Policy and communications: in search of definitions | |
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| Communications policy and the state | |
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| The organization of this book | |
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| Mediating the Public through Policy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Definitional approaches | |
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| Defining media policy for the 21st century | |
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| Exemplar media policy issues | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Age of Access? Information Policy and Social Progress | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The future of information policy | |
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| Conclusion: towards the age of access | |
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| Media and Social Demand: Research at the Interface of Policy Studies and Audience Studies | |
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| Policy studies/audience studies: issues at the interface | |
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| Policy studies: one problem, two traditions | |
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| Audience studies: consumers and citizens | |
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| Regarding social demand | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Development of a European Civil Society through EU Public Service Communication | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The context of Europe's communication deficit | |
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| The significance of Europe's communication deficit | |
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| A European audiovisual communication institution of public news journalism | |
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| Notes | |
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| Issues | |
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| The Escalating War against Corporate Media | |
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| The media reform movement comes to life | |
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| Powell and Copps take the stage | |
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| Beltway opposition stiffens | |
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| Powell's three arguments | |
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| Opposition grows beyond the beltway | |
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| Left and right join the fight | |
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| From the FCC to Congress | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Role of the European Institutions in National Media Regulation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Convergence in national media policies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Public Broadcasters in the Digital Age | |
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| The position of the public service broadcasters in Europe | |
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| Old challenges, new challenges | |
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| Concluding remarks for policy considerations | |
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| Transformations of the State in Telecommunications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The state as owner and operator | |
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| The state as a regulator | |
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| The state as a facilitator and stopgap | |
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| The role of the state reconsidered | |
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| Review and outlook | |
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| Notes | |
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| Coordinating Internet Policies: The Time has Come | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cross-border issues | |
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| A proposal | |
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| Framing the Information Society: A Comparison of Policy Approaches by the USA and the EU | |
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| Background | |
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| Method | |
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| Results | |
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| Discussion and conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Endnote: Prospects for Communications Policy Research | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |