Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847691071 ISBN 13: 9780847691074

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999

Synopsis

What roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid globalization of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy. Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy examines issues of communication technology, neoliberal economic policies, public service media, media access, social movements and political communication, the geography of communication, and global media development and policy, among others, and shows how progressive policymakers must use these bases to confront more directly the debates on contemporary welfare theory and politics.

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About the Author

Andrew Calabrese is associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Jean-Claude Burgelman is professor of national and international communication policy at the Free University of Brussels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847691071
• ISBN 13: 9780847691074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Calabrese Andrew, Burgelman Jean-Claude