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Author:   Zaharom Nain ,  Associate Professor Pradip N Thomas ,  Peter Golding
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781842774687

ISBN 10:   1842774689
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   18 November 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Foreword - Peter Golding Editors' Preface Part I: Theory and Policies 1. The Political Economy of International Communications - Robert McChesney 2. Global Institutions and the Democratisation of the Media - Se n a Siochr 3. Intellectual Property Rights - Cees J Hamelink Part II: Regional and Country Case Studies 4. Privatisation: The Cost of Media Democratisation in East and Central Europe? - Slavko Splichal 5. The Politics of the Media in the English Speaking Caribbean - Hopeton S Dunn 6. The Political Economy of Media in Southern Africa, 1990-2001 - William Hueva, Keyan Tomaselli and Ruth Teer-Tomaselli 7. Media Ownership and Control in Africa in the Age of Globalisation - Francis Nyamnjoh 8. Media and Neoliberalism in Latin America - Ana Fiol 9. Communications and the Crisis: From Neo-Liberalism to Authoritarian Development? - Dan Schiller 10. The State, the Market, and Media Control in China - Zhao Yuezhi 11. Media Ownership and Communication Rights in India - Pradip N. Thomas 12. The Political Economy of Media Ownership in Nigeria - Mohammed Musa and Jibril Mohammed 13 Ownership, Control and the Malaysian Media - Zaharom Nain and Wang Lay Kim Part III: Democratic Communication Futures 14. The Whole World Is Watching: Online Surveillance of Social Movement Organisations - Sasha Constanza-Chock 15. Agendas for Research and Strategies for Intervention - Pradip N. Thomas

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Pradip Thomas is director of the Global Studies Programme at the ecumenical World Association for Christian Communication (WACC). Zaharom Nain is associate professor in communications at the Science University of Malaysia. The contributors are academics based all over the world. They include the internationally known scholar and activist on communications, Cees J Hamelink.

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