Media governance : a cosmopolitan critique / / edited by Sarah Anne Ganter, Hanan Badr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910633924503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783031050206; 3031050207; 3-031-05020-7; 9783031050190; 3031050193
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 pages)
• Collana: Global transformations in media and communication research
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetti: Cosmopolitanism; Mass media - Political aspects; Mass media policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Re-examining Media Governance Through Cosmopolitan Critique -- Selected Puzzle Sets -- Academic Cosmopolitanism -- The Organization of This Book -- Part I. Concepts and Epistemology -- Part II. Critique and Ambivalence: Assessing Media Governance -- Part III. Conceptual Innovations and New Perspectives -- References -- Part I: Concepts and Epistemology -- Chapter 2: Sovereignty, Power, and Agency in Neoliberal Configurations of Media and Governance in the Global South -- Introduction -- Notes on Colonial and Postcolonial Histories of Telegraph and Radio -- Information, Communication, and the Internet: Global Debates and Policy Regimes -- Toward Transversal Engagements and Cosmopolitan Ethos -- References -- Chapter 3: Media Governance as Diagnostic Lens to Probe Hidden Dimensions of Authoritarian Decision-Making in the Arab Middle East -- Introduction -- Informal Mechanisms and Dispersed Roles -- Saudi ; Arabia and Copyright Infringement -- Global Digital Platforms, Local Autocrats and the Right to Communicate -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Challenges of Media Governance and Media Policy in Latin America: In the Context of Media Reform Battles -- Introduction -- Latin America and National Communication Policies: A Brief History -- Media Policy and the Political Economy of Communication Perspective -- Latin America and Its Long Road to Democratizing Communication -- Media Reforms -- Challenges and Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: Media Accountability in a Non-democratic Context: Conceptual Challenges and Adaptations -- Introduction -- The Origins of the Media Accountability Concept -- Media Accountability as Part of the Media Governance Canon -- Structures: From Instruments to Cases and Practices.; Actors: From Classification to Relations -- Processes: Media Accountability as a Multi-level Process -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Critique and Ambivalences: Assessing Media Governance -- Chapter 6: Cosmopolitan Media, Contestation, and Critique: Assessing International Media Governance Standards from the Nigerian Perspective -- Introduction -- What Is Cosmopolitan Media? -- The Nigerian Broadcasting Media Governance Structure -- Theoretical Framework -- Methodology -- Nigeria's Cosmopolitan Media: Ideas and Contestation -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: Media Governance and Fake News in Brazil -- Introduction -- Media Regulation and Its Critics in Brazil -- Governance as a Concept and a Policy Paradigm -- Governance as a Neoliberal Policy Paradigm -- Regulating Fake News or Maintaining a Monopoly on Truth? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Egyptian Media Governance Framework: Gains and Limitations -- Introduction -- Foundations of the Egyptian Media Landscape -- Media Governance Within the Post-2011 Legal Framework -- Media Governance as an Emerging Concept in Transitioning Countries -- Flawed Importation of "Independence" as a Dimension in Media Governance -- Independence of Regulatory Entities -- Legal and Structural Independence: Ambivalent Outcomes -- Financial Independence: Confusing Mechanisms -- Looking Ahead -- References -- Chapter 9: Media Governance as a Utopian Concept in a Local Mediascape: Challenges for Conceptual Development in South Korea -- Introduction -- A Korean Perspective on Media Governance -- Platformization in Media Governance -- Two Giants: Kakao and Naver -- Mobility War: Tada Versus Kakao's T Venti -- Streaming War: Netflix Versus Watcha -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: New Perspectives and Conceptual Innovations.; Chapter 10: A New Perspective on the Importance of the State in Global Internet Governance: Tracing China's Participation -- Introduction -- The "Rise and Fall" of the State in International Communication: An Overview -- "Why the State (Still) Matters": The Field of Global Internet Governance -- The Complicated Role of the State: China and Global Internet Governance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Democratic Governance of Media and Public Communication: Latin American Participatory Institutions Created in the Twenty-First Century -- Introduction -- Participation, Democratic Governance, and the Right to Communicate -- From Elite-Captured to Citizen-Centered Policy-Making? -- The Design of the New Participatory Institutions -- Achievements and Setbacks -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12: Understanding the Dynamics of Social Media Governance in South Africa -- Introduction -- Social Media Governance -- Social Media and Elections -- Context and Background to the 2019 Polls -- Framing the Study -- Research Ethics in the Social ; Media Sphere -- Findings and Discussion -- Appropriating Social Media for Advertorial Purposes -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach: Media Policy Studies from South Asia -- Introduction -- Colonialism, Modernity, Difference -- Reading Against and with the Grain: Can There Be a Decolonial Normativity? -- The Global South: Going Beyond Difference -- Cultures of Deliberation in South Asia -- Voice Parity, Media/Technology and Deliberation -- Voice Parity and Policy Ecology -- Situating the Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach: A Dialogue -- The Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach -- Interfacing with a Cosmopolitan Approach to Media Governance: Commonalities and Differences -- Sustainable Media Governance: A Provocation -- References.; Chapter 14: Conclusion: Cosmopolitan Critique as a Counterhegemonic Methodology -- Decentering Knowledge About Media Governance -- Dimensions of the Cosmopolitan Critique -- From a Cosmopolitan Critique Toward Epistemic Transformation -- Scholarly Dimension of the Cosmopolitan Critique -- Pedagogical Dimension of the Cosmopolitan Critique -- Institutional Dimension Toward a Cosmopolitan Critique -- References -- Index.