Global Media and National Policies

The Return of the State

Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Jeanette Steemers, Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Jeanette Steemers

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781349561957
  9781137493941
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137493958
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Social Sciences

Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left but that it is still a force to be reckoned with. With contributions that look at global developments and developments in specific parts of the world, it demonstrates how nation-states have adapted to globalization and how they still retain key policy instruments to achieve many of their policy objectives. This book argues that the phenomenon of media globalization has been overstated, and that national governments remain key players in shaping the media environment, with media corporations responding to the legal and policy frameworks they deal with at a national level.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State
• 2. Globalisation and the Re-emergence of the Regulatory State
• 3. The ‘Post-state’ Argument and Its Problems: Lessons from Media Policy Reforms in Latin America
• 4. Global Integration, State Policy and the Media
• 5. National Media Regulations in an Age of Convergent Media: Beyond Globalisation, Neo-liberalism and Internet Freedom Theories
• 6. The Nation-State and Media Globalisation: Has the Nation-State Returned – Or Did It Never Leave?
• 7. Cultural Policy, Chinese National Identity and Globalisation
• 8. Global Communications and National Policies: The View from the EU
• 9. Blurred Lines: Public Service Media and the State
• 10. Media Reform in Latin America Revisited: Where Do We Go from Here?
• 11. Media ‘Globalisation’ as Survival Strategy for Authoritarian Regimes in the Arab Middle East
• 12. The State and Public Broadcasting: Continuity and Change in Zimbabwe
• 13. The Price of Liberalisation and Other Strains on Democracy and Media Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe
• Index