"This state-of-the-art Handbook provides unique insights into the governance practices and institutions shaping digitalized public spheres. Focusing on the power relations involved, it presents diverse approaches to key debates in media and communication governance, showcasing groundbreaking advance
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s in the field. Contributing authors explore the impact of long-standing trends such as commercialization, digitalization and transnationalization on media and communication governance, highlighting urgent new developments including algorithmization and datafication. Combining theoretical inquiry with cutting-edge empirical analysis, they address governance challenges at the regional, national and global levels to provide a broad view of the social ordering of media systems. Ultimately, the Handbook explores how to protect the public sphere in the digital age and ensure that media organizations and platforms meet democratic expectations." (Publisher description)
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"Present situation — Special problems and possible solutions." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 268, topic code 110.1)
"This publication deals with the meeting convened by Unesco at Bangkok, 18-29 January 1960, to draw up a programme for the development of information media in South East Asia. The meeting was attended by representatives of Member States of Unesco,
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mass media experts of the region and observers from international organizations -about 120 participants in all. The Bangkok meeting forms part of a world survey which Unesco is conducting at the request of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Similar meetings are expected tobe held for Latin America at Santiago de Chile in 1961 and for Africa at Addis Ababa in 1962. The survey is intended to enable the United Nations to evaluate the resources needed to help the underdeveloped countries to build up their information media. The present publication contains the inaugural speech by the Director-General of Unesco at the Bangkok meeting, followed by the report adopted by the meeting and by papers submitted to it by various specialists in the mass communication field. These papers are grouped according to the four main subjects coveredby the meeting, namely: (i) newspapers and periodicals / (ii) news agencies and telecommunications / (iii) radio broadcasting, film and television / (iv) training in journalism and mass communication research." (Foreword)
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