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Global Media Governance: A Beginner's Guide
Author(s): Sean O'Siochru (Author), Bruce Girard (Author), Amy Mahan (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 7 May 2002
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742515656
- ISBN-13: 9780742515659
Book Description
This volume 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 in this book 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? This book does not pretend to answer all the questions, but it raises key ones and suggests where more complete answers can be found.
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About the Author
Sean O Siochru is cofounder and director of Nexus Research in Dublin. Bruce Girard is a media worker and a researcher at the Delft University of Technology. Amy Mahan is a researcher at Delft University of Technology. The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development.
