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- Offers a toolkit for students to understand, analyse and evaluate a broad range of media and communications policies
- Focuses on how media and communications policy is made and what influences its design
- Outlines the variety of political, social, economic, and institutional influences on policy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business (GMPB)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contexts and Means of Policy Making
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Front Matter
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Three Levels of Policy Making
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Policy Reviews, Advocacy and Future Research
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About this book
This textbook focuses on how media and communications policy is made and what influences its design. It explores the structures and processes in which policymaking takes place worldwide, the factors that determine its forms, influence its elements, and affect its outcomes. It explores how to analyze policy proposals, evaluate policy, and use policy studies approaches to examine policy and policymaking. Truly international in scope, it lays out the variety of political, social, economic, and institutional influences on policy, the roles of industries and policy advocates in the processes, and issues and factors that complicate effective policymaking and skew policy outcomes. This textbook is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Reviews
Phillip Napoli, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA
“Robert Picard is a master of his craft. His latest work, based on decades of rigorous research and direct engagement with policymaking, is a necessary intervention that elucidates many under-examined mechanics of media and communications policy—the institutions, processes, and structures that often invisibly shape the contours of everyday life. Policy scholars, students, and advocates—and anyone who cares about the future of media and democracy—should read this important book.”
Victor Pickard, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA
“This book contributes in major ways to the media policy research field, elaborating on concepts, levels of policymaking and the main methodological aspects of doing policy analysis. It is a must have for all scholars active in the field and for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.”
Karen Donders, Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
"Picard’s new book provides a roadmap of the communication and media policy landscape as it has been for the last half century while charting out a bold agenda for how scholars, policy makers and citizens alike might tackle the host of explosive, new policy issues that are arising from the uneasy intersection of globe spanning digital platforms, well-established media industries, the internet and telecommunications."
Professor Dwayne Winseck, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
“In this extremely accessible and insightful book, Picard provides a comprehensive account of communication policy with examples from different sectors and countries. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand how communication policy works, its influences, processes and, importantly, its outcomes too.”Maria Michalis, Associate Professor in Communication Policy, University of Westminster, UK
“Providing both an accessible pathway to media policy analysis and development as well as an important contribution to media policy studies, Picard’s book is a comprehensive study of the process of policy design and development. Written by a leading authority in the field, the book works both as a dynamic inter-disciplinary textbook for students as well as an invigorating scholarly contribution to the field”
Pietari Kääpä, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, and Author of Environmental Management of the Media (2018)
Authors and Affiliations
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Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Robert G. Picard
About the author
Robert G. Picard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute at University of Oxford, UK, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK, and a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale University Law School, USA. He has consulted for governments and international organizations in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media and Communications Policy Making
Book Subtitle: Processes, Dynamics and International Variations
Authors: Robert G. Picard
Series Title: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35173-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35172-4Published: 26 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35173-1Published: 25 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6192
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6206
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media Policy, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Media and Communication