Claudia Padovani & Véronique Wavre 
Global Communication Governance at the Crossroads [PDF ebook] 

This edited volume addresses current challenges, trends and transformations in global communication governance. Exploring changes in the actors, issues, values and contexts of media and communications, it investigates the crossroads that media policy is facing and offers visions for the future. A diverse range of scholars and expert practitioners discuss what regulatory reforms and governing mechanisms are required to advance democratic participation and fundamental rights in platform societies.






Organized around five sections, the volume considers the geopolitics of emerging communication orders; the changing roles of actors and stakeholders; the challenge of embedding rights and values in regulatory arrangements; the intersection of technology and policy; and the need to rethink epistemologies and methodologies for researching this field.






Contributions from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds include provocative think pieces and longer analyses. All chapters are grounded in historically-aware understandings of contemporary transformations, while anticipating dynamics of our communication futures.  

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication Governance in a post-Covid World. Daya Thussu.- Chapter 2. The Turn of the Pink Tide: lessons from Latin American media policies. Guillermo Mastrini, Patricia Marenghi, Angel Badillo.- Chapter 3. Theorizing ICT Governance in Small Island Developing States: A Global South context. Alpha Obika.- Chapter 4. The Growing Fragmentation of Global Internet Policy: The nationalisation of internet regulation and its consequences. Julia Pohle, Daniel Voelson.- Chapter 5: The EU’s Digital Services Act and Changes to US Antitrust Laws. Allison Harcourt.- Chapter 6. Title TBC. Maria Michalis.- Chapter 7. Spheres of Cooperaton: Participation, deception and enhanced cooperation in internet governance. Luca Belli.- Chapter 8. The Return of the Regulatory State: Nation-states as policy actors in digital platform governance. Terry Flew.- Chapter 9. Policy Responses to Digital Communication Platforms. Lean d’Haenens, Hanno Nieminen, Barbara Thomass, Josef Trappel.- Chapter 10. Anchoring Digital Rights: Digital constitutionalism in hard times. Edoardo Celeste, Dennis Redeker, Mauro Santaniello.- Chapter 11. Seeking Anchors of Equity and Social Justice in the Digital Domain. J. Parminder Singh, S. O’Siochru, S. Burch.- Chapter 12. Rethinking Global Communication Governance through Gender-transformative Lenses. Claudia Padovani, Aimee Vega Montiel, Kaithy Mendes.- Chapter 13. Understanding Infrastructure as (Internet) Governance. Francesa Musiani.- Chapter 14. Drafting Laws for High Stakes Technologies in Times of Crisis: Participatory internet law during a global pandemic. Lilian Edwards.- Chapter 15. The Public and Private Techlash: New coalitions and strategic directions in the pursuit of legitimate governance of online content. Jeremy Shtern, Stephanie Hill.- Chapter 16. Methods for Media Policy Research. Manuel Puppis, Hilde Van de Bulck.- Chapter 17. World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development. Guy Berger.- Chapter 18. Title TBC. Preeti Ragunath.

O autorze

Claudia Padovani is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Padova.






Véronique Wavre is Researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.






Arne Hintz is Reader at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture.






Gerard Goggin is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of


Sydney.







Petros Iosifidis is Professor in Media Policy at City, University of London.