The Political Economy of Global Communication :An Introduction ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :An Introduction

Publication series :1

Author: Wilkin   Peter  

Publisher: Pluto Books Ltd‎

Publication year: 2001

E-ISBN: 9781849640350

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780745314013

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780745314068

Subject: F627 国际电信

Keyword: 信息与知识传播,社会学

Language: ENG

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The Political Economy of Global Communication

Description

To what extent will the merging of the world’s media and telecommunications companies enhance or undermine the autonomy of ordinary citizens?

Chapter

1. Understanding Human Security

Human Security and International Relations

Defining Human Security

Security and the Study of International Relations

Global Communication and Human Security

Global Communication and World Order

Communication, Human Security and the Public Sphere

2. Towards a Global Communications Industry

Global Communication? A Historical Overview

States and Mass Communications

The Political Economy of Global Communication - Understanding the Transformation of Media Markets

Technology, Ideology and Social Power in the Political Economy of Communication

Neoliberal Political Economy

The Impact of Neoliberal Political Economy - Globalising Tendencies

A Qualitative Change in Global Communication?

Global Communications? The Changing Structure of the Communications Industries

Global Communication and the Changing Structure of Ownership and Control - From Synergy to Oligopoly

Globalisation and the Information Society: an introduction

Conclusions: Problems for Human Security

3. Human Security and Global Communication - Into the Twenty-First Century

Knowledge, Power and Rationality

Communication Needs and Human Security

Developments in the Political Economy of Education

Global Communication, Information and Human Security

Neoliberal Political Economy - Idealised Brutality

Conclusions: Obstacles to Human Security The Limits of the Neoliberal Analysis

4. Public Sphere, Private Power - The Limits to Autonomy and Human Security

Developments in the Public Sphere

A Neoliberal Utopia? - The Information Society Considered

Conclusions: The Good Society?

5. Building the Perfect Beast: The Information Society Revealed

Democracy against Capitalism? The Neutered State

Human Security, Autonomy and the Information Society

Conclusions: Human Security and the Public Sphere in an Age of Information

6. Global Communication, Human Security and the Challenge to the Public Sphere

Globalisation and Human Security

Globalisation From Above ( GFA)

Globalisation From Below ( GFB)

The Global Public Sphere and Human Security

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Bibliography

Index

ABC,

49

88

abstraction 104

advertising

105

106-7

Agence-France Presse 50

Anderson, Benedict 28

anti-systemic movements

59

134

AOL-Time Warner

25

49

74

79

Argentina

88

101

Associated Press [USA] 79

AT and T 49

authoritarian governments

30

83

84

2

6

22

43-4

55

80

84

96

113-14

114-19

122

125

Bagdikian, Ben

37

105

BBC

28

37-8

128

Bello, Walden 129

Berlusconi, Silvio

38

104

Bertelsmann 25

Bogart, Leo 71

Booth, Ken 7

Brazil

88

101

111

Bretton Woods

39

41

76

British Telecommunications [BT] 49

Business Week 110

capital accumulation

25-6

41

70

108-10

Capital Cities

49

58

capitalism

12-13

25-6

32

38

41

63

69

70

75-6

78-82

86

103-5

108

112

125

Carr, E.H.

45

55

127

China

30

88

101

choice

39

81-2

91

Chomsky, Noam

58

95

134

Chossudovsky, Michel 63

cinema 72-3

cities [global] 42

citizenship

22

75

83-4

93

129

132

civil society

3

47

48

59

93

129

132

Claritas Corporation

5

88

class conflict

28

29

Clinton, President

7

36

48

75

Closed Circuit Television [CCTV]

36

97

CNN 107

communication

global, 24

global, 24-7

global, 39

global, 62-3

global, 129-30

means of, 20

means of, 59

means of, 76

means of, 134

ownership and control, 20

ownership and control, 24-7

ownership and control, 47-8

ownership and control, 77

ownership and control, 120-122

ownership and control, 134

competition 39

complexity

8

12-13

45

Connolly, W 97

consumer sovereignty

40

45

core capitalist states

31-2

45

73

76

78

90

corporate mercantile capitalism

corporate mercantile capitalism, 125

corporate mercantile capitalism, 133

corporate propaganda 122

Cox, Robert 118

Critical Theory 84

crony capitalism 89

cultural imperialism

30

61

Dahl, Robert 21

Davies, Andrew 85

democracy/democratisation

17

37

59

81

84

92-3

96

108

110-11

deregulation

20

40

45

94

digitisation 34

discourse[s] 99

Disney

25

49

88

Doyal, Len, and Gough, Ian 55

e-commerce 89

e-firms [business] 89

Eastern Europe

6

44

67

109

Economist, The

74

110

Education/literacy

59

65-71

enabling state, the

67

75

enlightenment, the

19

54

83

European Union [EU]

37-8

77

93

110

113

127

evaluation 13-14

explanation

12-13

53

57

58

fallibility 54

fibre-optic 34

financial instability

45

89-90

Forbes magazine 74

Fortune

32

500

Foucault, Michel

53

54

Fourth Estate [media autonomy], 105

Fourth Estate [media autonomy], 120

France

77

79

free trade

39

106

Gates, Bill

34

39

Gellner, Ernest 115

General Electric [GE]

25

49

geopolitics

29-30

69

70

78

128

global economic growth 33

global economy

3

39

43-4

75-6

global governance

76

122

global political economy

32

37

41

44

globalisation

3

21

41

51-2

125-35

globalisation from above [GFA]

85

126-31

globalisation from below [GFB]

85

131-34

Globo [Brazil]

107

111

good society, the

4

6

52

94-5

123

Gore, Al

32

48

G[7]

6

30

37

74

125

Habermas, Jürgen

19

22

23

61-2

83-4

123

Hamelink, Cees 27

Harvey, David 129

Hull/Humberside Telecom 85

human rights

78

97

human security

4-7

18

51-2

53

54

58

59-64

70

71-2

81

86-7

92-3

96

113-14

134

2

42-3

47-8

61

101-2

103-5

119-23

Ignatieff, Michael 22

indeterminacy 57-8

India

88

101

inequality

21-2

41-2

51-2

79

99

information society

51-2

86-95

96-124

interests 77

International Financial Institutions [IFIs]

39

42

44

international financial transac-tions

89

108-10

International Labour Organisation [ILO] 62

international law 69

International Monetary Fund [IMF] 39

internet

33

37

interpretation [meaning]

12-13

58

Jackall, Robin 107

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall 121-2

Japan

77

88

89

Kavanagh, Trevor 104

Keynes [-ianism] 110

knowledge

53-4

84

Koss, Stephen 50

Labour Party [New Labour/UK]

49

85

100

Lafontaine, Oskar 110

Lazonick, William 72

liberalisation

20

39-40

45

94

1

78

81

Linklater, Andrew 23

Lippmann, Walter

19

50

Malone, John 35

Mann, Michael

7

14-15

36

88

markets

50

71-3

81

112

116

Marx, Karl 83

Melody, William

37

74

Microsoft

28

35

50

military power/research and design

36-7

74

Mills, C. Wright 18

monopoly

29

57

morality

61-2

94

Mosco, Vincent 72

Mowlana, Hamid 106

Multilateral Agreement on Investment [MAI] 6

Murdoch, Rupert

49

52

128

NAFTA

7

47

93

98

national identity 19

national interest

7

55

NATO 6

NBC 49

needs

20

22

55

59-64

134

neo realism

11

14

2

14

20

32

39

39-46

71-82

86-95

96-124

126-9

new economy, the 79

New Information Technology [NIT]

20

25

32

35

36

37

47

50

64

68

86-95

96

112-13

132

New World Information and Communication Order [NWICO] 79

news agencies 79

News Corporation

24

25

49

79-80

100

104-5

Newsquest [USA] 107

normative principles

54

114-23

Nozick, Robert 81

O'Neill, John 107

objectivity 114-15

OECD 67

oligopoly

37

57

79

orthodox security 7-8

perfect information 39

periphery states

31-2

45

Peru 32

Polanyi, Karl 72

political culture

82

85

106-7

114-23

political economy

17

20

29

political identity

3

29

97-8

political obligation

23

97-8

Polygram 25

Popper, Karl 116

postmodernism 54

poverty [global]

60

62-4

88

power 14-15

private power

3

18

38

46-7

110-11

120-1

133

privatisation

20

40

42-3

94

profit motive 77

progress

54

83

propaganda

55

122

protectionism 75

public service broadcasting [PSB]

26-9

37-8

public sphere[s] [local, national, regional, global]

20

22

83-6

96-123

rational choices

39

81

114-23

rationality 60-1

RCA 49

regulation

28

77

Reich, Robert 75

relativism 55-8

restructuring of the state 43-4

restructuring of the workplace 90-1

Reuters [UK] 79

rich-poor divide [global]

16

34

41-2

Rosenau, James 10-11

Rouge, Jacques, Maison

38-9

75

87

Said, Edward 99

Schiller, Herbert

30

91

100

109

Seagram 25

Smith, Adam 18

social groups

48

69

social justice

23

54

55

81

social power

14-15

22

41-2

46-7

72-3

Sony 25

sovereignty 43-4

standardisation

28

35

state-corporate relations

49

50

76

89-90

102-3

104-5

108-10

state[s]

27-9

69-71

86

106

108-10

structuralism 117

structure[s] 130

super

129

301

surveillance

35

112-13

synergy

48-50

80

taxation

44

79-80

91

telecommunications

26

79

101

tendencies

12-13

26

39-46

72-3

102

108

112

118

134

Thailand

16

129

third way 75

Thomson, John 119

Tilly, Charles 64

TNCs

24-6

34

41

44

124

trade related intellectual property rights [TRIPS]

30

45

91

126

trade related investment measures [TRIMS]

45

126

Turner, Ted 52

tyranny of the minority

28

34

121

UK

16

47

75

128

UN human development report

62

99

101

UNCTAD 5

2

4

5

16

77-9

unemployment 33

UNESCO

5

65-71

78

United Nations [UN] 78

United Press International [USA] 79

USA

16

26

47

69

129

Viacom 25

Waal, Alex De 134

Wallerstein, Immanuel

16

30

71

118

Waltz, Kenneth

8-11

12

Washington Consensus, the

44

94

108

129

World Bank

34

39

42

63

World Development Indicators 34

World Educational Forum 65-71

World Order (four levels: local, national, regional, global]

6

21

38

39

71

75

79

82

93

132

WorldCom 25

WTO

6

21

38

39

71

75

79

82

93

132

Zapatistas 98

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