[ecrea] The Digital Public Sphere. Challenges for Media Policy

>The Digital Public Sphere. Challenges for Media Policy
>
>Editors: Jostein Gripsrud & Hallvard Moe
>
>Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2010, 167 p. - ISBN
>978-91-86523-02-2, Price EUR25
>
>
>Until recently, media policy was thought of as national, media-specific,
>and as part of the cultural domain. All is changing in a digital public
>sphere: first, by the processes of globalization in a broad sense;
>second, by a blurring of borders between media, which can be summed up
>as convergence; and third, by a more far-reaching commercialisation of
>the media. The transformation triggered by these developments are
>ongoing and have been so for quite a few years. Thus, it is time to take
>stock. The different contributions in this book set out to do that.
>
>With a basis in the idea that media policy is fundamentally about
>regulating the public sphere in accordance with central democratic
>ideals, the book covers a wide range of issues: Transnational online
>television distribution; the trouble with building and opening digital
>audiovisual archives; the impact of recent EU regulations on global
>conglomerates as well as national public service broadcasters; the
>debate on net neutrality; the idea of the participating public in
>policy-making; the regulation of freedom of speech on the internet; as
>well as the impact of legal globalization on media policy itself.
>
>Contributors are internationally leading European and US scholars in the
>field - Sandra Braman, Karen Donders, Caroline Pauwels and Slavko
>Splichal - along with a selection of Nordic experts: Jostein Gripsrud,
>Karl Knapskog, Hallvard Moe, Ole J. Mjøs, Hannu Nieminen, Helge Rønning,
>and Tanja Storsul.
>
>
>
>For further information see
>http://www.nordicom.gu.se/?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=318&me=13
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Ulla C.
>
>--
>Ulla Carlsson, Dr., Professor
>Director
>NORDICOM
>University of Gothenburg
>Box 713
>SE 405 30 Göteborg
>www.nordicom.gu.se <http://www.nordicom.gu.se>
>www.twitter.com/nordicom_news <http://www.twitter.com/nordicom_news>
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