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UNIT |
THEME |
Subjects for Discussion |
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1 |
General Introduction |
- What is communication policy?
- What are the major subject that are of interest to policy analysts?
- Historical and comparative perspective on the development of the field
- Presentation of some major economic, technological and political issues and terms that will be used in the class
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Theories of Communication Policy |
- Introduction of various theoretical perspectives of communication policy
- pluralism and neo-pluralism
- elitism
- corporatism
- statism
- marxism
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The goals and essence of the Information Society |
- The use and abuse of the term "Information Society"
- Promises of the information revolution.
- The limits of the Information Revolution
- The Information Society or Information Economy?
- Exclusion and Inclusion in the Information Society?
- National and Global policies for adaptation and promotion to the Info-Revolution
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Telecommunications Policy |
- The Development of Telegraph and Telephony orders
- Nationalization and Competition in the first half of the 20th century
- The erosion of the old order in the 1980s
- The New Order of "regulated competition" in the 1990s
- Corporatization, privatization, liberalization and deregulation
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Media Policy |
- Historical examination of the origins of Newspapers, Radio and TV
- Comparative examination of the role of politics in the media markets
- Evaluating the role and the strengths and weakness of public and commercial broadcasting
- cultural policies - for and against (promoting and nurturing domestic content industry)
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Internet Policy |
- Promotional, social and regulatory policies in the Internet- past and present perspectives
- The democratic potential
- The cultural potential
- The economic promises
- New and old problems: copyrights, security, obscenity, hate, privacy, violence
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Digital Capitalism
(The International Political Economy of the New Communication Order) |
- The Internet and the Global Economy
- The US government and American Corporations and the creation of friendly environment for the Internet
- Information Poor and Information Rich in the "information economy"
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Regulating for Competition |
- What is Regulation?
- Between regulation and Competition
- The Creation of Independent Regulatory Agencies
- Deregulation or Reregulation?
- From the Administrative State to the "Competition State"
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9 |
Conclusions |
- Re-evaluating Theories and Knowledge;
- Where do we go from here? (suggestions for professional and professional phases of development)
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