Manuel Puppis & Natascha Just 
Trends in Communication Policy Research [EPUB ebook] 
New Theories, Methods and Subjects

With contributions from leading international experts from within both the communications industry and academia,
Trends in Communication Policy Research comprises the very latest developments in the theories, methods and practical applications of this dynamic field. Topical and politically relevant, this authoritative volume will prove an invaluable reference for students and scholars seeking to understand communication policy issues.

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction – Natascha Just & Manuel Puppis

Chapter 2: Communication Policy Research: Looking Back, Moving Forward – Natascha Just & Manuel Puppis

PART I: NEW THEORIES

Chapter 3: Prospects and Pitfalls of Douglass North’s New Institutional Economics Approach for Global Media Policy Research – Jan Loisen

Chapter 4: ‘It’s the Idea, Stupid!’ How Ideas Challenge Broadcasting Liberalization – Matthias Kunzler

Chapter 5: The Accountability and Legitimacy of Regulatory Agencies in the Communication Sector – Manuel Puppis & Martino Maggetti

Chapter 6: Change and Divergence in Regulatory Regimes: A Comparative Study of Product Placement Regulation – Avshalom Ginosar

Chapter 7: Technologies as Institutions: Rethinking the Role of Technology in Media Governance Constellations – Christian Katzenbach

Chapter 8: Veto Players and the Regulation of Media Pluralism: A New Paradigm for Media Policy Research? – Ulrike Klinger

PART II: NEW METHODS 

Chapter 9: A Political Scientist’s Contribution to the Comparative Study of Media Systems in Europe: A Response to Hallin and Mancini – Peter Humphreys

Chapter 10: What We Talk about When We Talk about Document Analysis - Kari Karppinen & Hallvard Moe

Chapter 11: Qualitative Network Analysis: An Approach to Communication Policy Studies – Maria Löblich & Senta Pfaff-Rudiger 

Chapter 12: Towards a Media Policy Process Analysis Model and Its Methodological Implications – Hilde Van den Bulck

PART III: NEW SUBJECTS

CONVERGENCE

Chapter 13: Battle of the Paradigms: Defining the Object and Objectives of Media/Communication Policy  – Karol Jakubowicz

Chapter 14: Content Control and Digital Television: Policy, Technology and Industry – Andrew T. Kenyon, Julian Thomas & Jason Bosland

Chapter 15: Regulating and Monitoring Online Activities of Public Service Broadcasters: The Case of Switzerland – Natascha Just, Michael Latzer & Florian Saurwein

STATE AID

Chapter 16: Conditional Access for Public Service Broadcasting to New Media Platforms: EU State-Aid Policy vis-à-vis Public Service Broadcasting – the Dutch Case – Jo Bardoel & Marit Vochteloo

Chapter 17: Film Support in the EU: The Uteca Case and the Future Challenges for the ‘Main Characters’ – Lucia Bellucci

Chapter 18: New Approaches to the Development of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Europe? The Evolution of European Union Policy for Next-Generation Networks – Seamus Simpson

PARTICIPATION, POWER & THE ROLE OF GENDER

Chapter 19: Public Service Television in European Union Countries: Old Issues, New Challenges in the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ – Peter Bajomi-Lazar, Vaclav Stetka & Miklós Sukosd

Chapter 20: Civil Society and Media Governance: A Participatory Approach – Pietro Rossi & Werner A. Meier

Chapter 21: Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone: Unfolding Gender Conscious Research for Communication and Cultural Policy Theory – Katharine Sarikakis

Despre autor

Natascha Just is a senior research and teaching associate at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Z/u00fcrich, Switzerland.