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From NWICO to WSIS : 30 years of communication geopolitics : actors and flows, structures and divides /

Two major events have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) in the 1970s-80s and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003-05. Yet they are rarely studied in their continuity/discontinuity and the intermediary peri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Frau-Meigs, Divina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2012.
Colección:European Communication Research and Education Association series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; IFC; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART I: On the Agenda: NWICO; Introduction; Correlations between NWICO and Information Society: Reflections of a NWICO actor; The history of NWICO and its lessons; NWICO: Reuters' Gerald Long versus UNESCO's Seán MacBride; IPS, an alternative source of news: From NWICO to civil society; New scenarios for the Right to Communicate in Latin America; Past witnesses' present comments; PART II: Shifting Sands; Introduction; The Right to Communicate
  • A continuing victim of historic links to NWICO and UNESCO?
  • 'Going Digital': A historical perspective on early international cooperation in informaticsICTs, discourse and knowledge societies: Implications for policy and practice; Past witnesses' present comments; PART III: Changing the agenda: WSIS and the future; Introduction; Towards Knowledge Societies in UNESCO and beyond; The notion of access to information and knowledge: Challenges and divides, sectors and limits; The international news agencies (and their TV/Multimedia Sites): The defence of their traditional lead in international news production.
  • The least imperfect form of global governance yet? Civil society and multi-stakeholder governance of communicationCivil society and the amplification of media governance, during WSIS and beyond; Past witnesses' present comments; PART IV: Postface; From New International Information Order to New Information Market Order; Biographies; Abstracts; Webography; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Back Cover.