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Strategies for Media Reform

International Perspectives

edited by Des Freedman

by (author) Jonathan A. Obar, Cheryl Martens & Robert W. McChesney

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2016
Category
Media & Communications Industries, Security, Journalism, Telecommunications
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780823271641
    Publish Date
    Aug 2016
    List Price
    $125.00 USD
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780823271658
    Publish Date
    Aug 2016
    List Price
    $35.00 USD

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Description

Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what effective strategies can be used in the pursuit of effective media reform?
Prepared by thirty-three scholars and activists from more than twenty-five countries, Strategies for Media Reform focuses on theorizing media democratization and evaluating specific projects for media reform. This edited collection of articles offers readers the opportunity to reflect on the prospects for and challenges facing campaigns for media reform and gathers significant examples of theory, advocacy, and activism from multinational perspectives.

About the authors

Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Jonathan Obar is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.

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Cheryl Martens is Senior Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK and, Research Lecturer at la Universidad de las Américas, Quito.

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Robert W. McChesney is Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois Center for Global Studies.

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Editorial Reviews

Uniquely informed activist-researcher evaluations of very current media and Internet reform initiatives, especially of the U.S. scenario, but spanning Canada, Mexico, Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Egypt, Israel, West African states, Argentina, Venezuela and Switzerland. A treasure trove for media change, including notable think-pieces, and lessons learned from both failures and achievements.---—John D.H. Downing, editor of Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media