The Political Economy Of Press Freedom

Author : Jaw-Nian Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429939341

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The Political Economy of Press Freedom by Jaw-Nian Huang Pdf

This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-business elites and foreign hegemons interacted to shape the evolution of Taiwan’s media. It examines why freedoms increased alongside democratization in the 1990s but deteriorated after the second peaceful turnover of power in 2008 and why significant improvements accompanied Taiwan’s close economic connections with the US during the Cold War, only to become eroded as the country developed deeper economic ties with China in the 21st century. Presenting both a domestic and international perspective, this study of the controversial case of Taiwan ultimately argues in favor of three factors. First, state power is not the only threat to press freedom, as corporate organizations and market forces may also play a role in curtailing it. Second, cross-national economic connections do not always improve human and civil rights but may cause damage when they involve more powerful authoritarian countries. Third, just as norms diffuse from liberal contexts to repressive states, repressive norms are also likely to diffuse from powerful authoritarian countries to more liberal but politically and economically weaker ones. Providing a new viewpoint on China’s media control overseas, The Political Economy of Press Freedom will be useful for students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Taiwan Studies as well as comparative politics, international relations and Media Studies.

Author : Cherian George
Publisher : AMIC
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Free enterprise
ISBN : 9789814136099

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Free Markets Free Media? by Cherian George Pdf

This title examines the impact of market forces on the efforts to build and consolidate more democratic media in Asia. Democratic forces in the Philippines, South Korea and Indonesia have loosened the grip of authoritarian governments, while even in tightly controlled regimes such as China and Vietnam, the media landscape is changing.

Author : Robert Picard
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015014761244

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The Press and the Decline of Democracy by Robert Picard Pdf

The author discusses the role of economic concentration in limiting public access to information and reducing opportunities for public discourse. Picard examines the government policies that have contributed to the erosion of democratic participation and have permitted the growth of large commercial press entities, unobstructed by anti-trust provisions. He relates recent public policy responses to this problem to democratic socialist ideology and develops a social-democratic theory of the press which draws upon ideas and policies found throughout the Western world. Picard provides a democratic framework for understanding the changing nature of media economics and state-press relations and offers proposals for achieving both a democratically functioning press and broader popular participation.

Author : Peter Golding,Graham Murdock
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023162691

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The Political Economy of the Media by Peter Golding,Graham Murdock Pdf

Golding and Murdock (sociology, Loughborough University, UK) have compiled 61 official documents, otherwise inaccessible articles, and selected extracts published between 1910 and 1994 by seminal thinkers such as Nicholas Garnham, Herbert I. Schiller, Dallas W. Smythe, Francis Williams, Harold Evans, Ben H. Bagdikian, Upton Sinclair, Jurgen Habermas, Edward S. Herman and Peter Jay. The collection includes discussion on the political economy approach to communications, the capitalist enterprise and creation of communications, ideology, and protecting the common good in the management and regulation of communications and the media. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Shawn M. Powers,Michael Jablonski
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252097102

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The Real Cyber War by Shawn M. Powers,Michael Jablonski Pdf

Contemporary discussion surrounding the role of the internet in society is dominated by words like: internet freedom, surveillance, cybersecurity, Edward Snowden and, most prolifically, cyber war. Behind the rhetoric of cyber war is an on-going state-centered battle for control of information resources. Shawn Powers and Michael Jablonski conceptualize this real cyber war as the utilization of digital networks for geopolitical purposes, including covert attacks against another state's electronic systems, but also, and more importantly, the variety of ways the internet is used to further a state’s economic and military agendas. Moving beyond debates on the democratic value of new and emerging information technologies, The Real Cyber War focuses on political, economic, and geopolitical factors driving internet freedom policies, in particular the U.S. State Department's emerging doctrine in support of a universal freedom to connect. They argue that efforts to create a universal internet built upon Western legal, political, and social preferences is driven by economic and geopolitical motivations rather than the humanitarian and democratic ideals that typically accompany related policy discourse. In fact, the freedom-to-connect movement is intertwined with broader efforts to structure global society in ways that favor American and Western cultures, economies, and governments. Thought-provoking and far-seeing, The Real Cyber War reveals how internet policies and governance have emerged as critical sites of geopolitical contestation, with results certain to shape statecraft, diplomacy, and conflict in the twenty-first century.

Author : Robert W. McChesney
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583671610

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The Political Economy of Media by Robert W. McChesney Pdf

One of the foremost media critics provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political powers that are being mobilized to consolidate private control of media with increasing profit--all at the expense of democracy.

Author : Gunilla Faringer
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015022002540

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Press Freedom in Africa by Gunilla Faringer Pdf

This is an authoritative study on the role of mass media in Third World development. Using broad historical, economic, and political perspectives, Gunilla L. Faringer details the obstacles to a genuinely free, mass circulation press in Black Africa and offers a thorough analysis of the African press. The volume's six chapters meticulously catalog all pertinent data on press development, performance, and goals in English-speaking, sub-Saharan Africa, with primary focus on Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya, countries that represent three different courses of political development. Faringer critically analyzes widely held attitudes among scholars and international organizations as to the role of mass media in Third World development. Her findings challenge the prevalent belief that the primary task of Third World media is to function as a tool for economic development. Outlining both present and future responsibilities of Third World mass media, Press Freedom in Africa stresses the need for deeper understandings by mass media policy makers of the importance that history, macroeconomic structure, and political traditions hold in the Third World. The detailed introduction considers the philosophical issues that underlie the crucial role of mass media in political change and national development. Faringer surveys the unique obstacles confronting African nations as they have attempted to develop their own comprehensive media structures. Subsequent chapters trace the history of newspapers in Black Africa before World War II; survey the role of the press in the independence movement; and examine the changing relations between government and press. Two final chapters offer a critical perspective on press freedoms and functions and lay the groundwork for a more realistic concept of the press in the Third World. This up-to-the-minute resource will find broad acceptance for courses in international journalism, African studies, Third World development, communications and mass media, government and politics of Africa, area studies, political science, political economy, and civil rights.

Author : Cherian George
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789971695941

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Freedom from the Press by Cherian George Pdf

For several decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced, open economy with restrictions on civil liberties and press freedom. Freedom from the Pressanalyses the republic's media system, showing how it has been structured - like the rest of the political framework - to provide maximun freedom of manoeuvre for the People's Action Party (PAP) government. Cherian George assessed why the PAP's "freedom from the press" model has lasted longer than many other authoritarian systems. He suggests that one key factor has been the PAP's recognition that market forces could be harnessed as a way to tame journalism. Another counter-intuitive strategy is its self-restraint in the use of force, progressively turning to subtler means of control that are less prone to backfire. The PAP has also remained open to internal reform, even as it tries to insulate itself from political competition. Thus, although increasingly challenged by dissenting views disseminated through the internet, the PAP has so far managed to consolidate its soft-authoritarian, hegemonic form of electoral democracy. Given Singapore's unique place on the world map of press freedom and democracy, this book not only provides a constructive engagement with ongoing debates about the city-state but also makes a significant contribution to the comparative study of journalism and politics.

Author : Edward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307801623

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Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky Pdf

An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004291416

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Marx and the Political Economy of the Media by Anonim Pdf

This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Media, Cultural and Communication Studies. It presents 18 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand media, cultural and communications in 21st century informational capitalism.

Author : Kurt R. Leube,Albert H. Zlabinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040441748

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The Political Economy of Freedom by Kurt R. Leube,Albert H. Zlabinger Pdf

Author : Victor Pickard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107038332

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America's Battle for Media Democracy by Victor Pickard Pdf

Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system's historical roots and normative foundations. It charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media-reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken.

Author : David P. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521447917

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Wealth and Freedom by David P. Levine Pdf

Modern life places a special emphasis on private affairs. Social institutions, and especially our economies, have been organized to facilitate the pursuit of private interests. At the center of this private world is a system of private property which, more than anything, satisfies our wants. Political economy studies the properties of this private world: How does it work, and how well does it satisfy our wants? What are the limits of the world of private affairs? Wealth and Freedom provides an introduction to political economy for the student or other interested nonspecialist. The book explores such key issues as the place of our economy in the larger social system, the importance of market institutions for individual autonomy, private enterprise as a system of economic development, poverty and inequality in market economies, global inequality, and the limits of the market and the role of government. Wealth and Freedom is distinctive in employing a rights-based approach to understanding and evaluating economic institutions. The author emphasizes the distinction between needs and wants as the basis for establishing the limits of the market, and concludes the book with a discussion of the relation between private wants and public ends.

Author : Sabina Mihelj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317168973

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Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective by Sabina Mihelj Pdf

Appearing more than twenty years after the revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe, this book could not have come at a more appropriate time; a time to take stock not only of the changes but also the continuities in media systems of the region since 1989. To what extent are media institutions still controlled by political forces? To what extent are media markets operating in Central and Eastern Europe? Do media systems in Central and Eastern Europe resemble media systems in other parts of Europe? The answers to these questions are not the same for each country in the region. Their experience is not homogeneous. An international line up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars methodically examine the different economic, political, cultural, and transnational factors affecting developments in media systems across Central and Eastern Europe. Whereas earlier works in the media system tradition have, in the main, adopted the political framework of comparative politics, the authors argue that media systems are also cultural and economic institutions and there are other critical variables that might explain certain outcomes better. Topics discussed range from political economy to gender inequality to the study of ethno-cultural diversity. This unmatched volume gives you the unique opportunity to study the growing field of comparative media analysis across Eastern and Western Europe. A valuable resource that goes beyond the field of media and cultural analysis which media scholars as well as to area specialists should not go without!

Author : Yuezhi Zhao
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Government and the press
ISBN : 0252066782

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Media, Market, and Democracy in China by Yuezhi Zhao Pdf

Media, Market, and Democracy in China is an astonishingly close look at the intertwining nature of the Communist Party and the news media in China, how they affect each other, and what the future might hold for each. How do market forces influence the media in China? How does the Party both introduce and try to contain the market's influence? How do commercial imperatives both accommodate and challenge Party control? To answer these and other questions, Yuezhi Zhao interviewed a wide range of scholars, media administrators, and media professionals. During five months in China in 1994 and 1995, she monitored media content, carried out extensive documentary research in Beijing, and held off-the-record meetings with Chinese media insiders. The first study of its kind to trace the Chinese print and broadcast media from the 1920s to 1996, this work will be must reading for students of journalism, mass communications, political science, and China studies, as well as for media and business professionals and policy makers who need to understand what's happening to China and its mass media.