Global Media Governance: A Beginner's GuideThis book is a primer on media governance at a global level and the key influencing forces and organizations, such as ITU, WTO, UNESCO, WIPO, and ICANN. Governance oversees regulation, and questions addressed here include: Why do we regulate the various media at all? What currently are the major forms of global regulation, and how do they work? Who participates in, and who benefits from, media regulatory and governance structures? And what are the trends? Anyone interested in the media and its progressively rising influence over so many dimensions of society will sooner or later find themselves confronted with these questions. This book does not pretend to answer all the questions, but it raises key ones and points in directions where more complete answers can be found. Published in cooperation with UNRISD. |
Contents
Introduction to National Media Regulation | 3 |
Global Governance Institutions | 15 |
Trends in Media | 25 |
Part II | 33 |
The International Telecommunication Union | 35 |
The World Trade Organization and Trade in Media Products | 51 |
The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization | 71 |
The World Intellectual Property Organization and Intellectual Property Rights | 85 |
Global Media Regulation | 119 |
Actors and Trends in Global Governance | 143 |
Scenarios for Media Governance | 163 |
| 183 | |
Selected URLs | 189 |
| 191 | |
About the Authors | 201 |
About the UNRISD | |
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and Internet Governance | 99 |
Part III | 117 |
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Global Media Governance: A Beginner's Guide Seán Ó Siochrú,Bruce Girard,Amy Mahan Limited preview - 2002 |
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