From NWICO to WSIS [[electronic resource] ] : 30 years of communication geopolitics : actors and flows, structures and divides / / edited by Divina Frau-Meigs ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786489703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2012
• ISBN: 1-84150-747-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Collana: European Communication Research and Education Association series
• Altri autori (Persone): Frau-MeigsDivina
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetti: Communication, International; Geopolitics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; IFC; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART I: On the Agenda: NWICO; Introduction; Correlations between NWICO and Information Society: Reflections of a NWICO actor; The history of NWICO and its lessons; NWICO: Reuters' Gerald Long versus UNESCO's Seán MacBride; IPS, an alternative source of news: From NWICO to civil society; New scenarios for the Right to Communicate in Latin America; Past witnesses' present comments; PART II: Shifting Sands; Introduction; The Right to Communicate - A continuing victim of historic links to NWICO and UNESCO?; 'Going Digital': A historical perspective on early international cooperation in informaticsICTs, discourse and knowledge societies: Implications for policy and practice; Past witnesses' present comments; PART III: Changing the agenda: WSIS and the future; Introduction; Towards Knowledge Societies in UNESCO and beyond; The notion of access to information and knowledge: Challenges and divides, sectors and limits; The international news agencies (and their TV/Multimedia Sites): The defence of their traditional lead in international news production; The least imperfect form of global governance yet? Civil society and multi-stakeholder governance of communicationCivil society and the amplification of media governance, during WSIS and beyond; Past witnesses' present comments; PART IV: Postface; From New ; International Information Order to New Information Market Order; Biographies; Abstracts; Webography; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Two major events have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) in the 1970s-80s and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003-05. Yet they are rarely studied in their continuity/discontinuity and the intermediary period between the two phases is often ignored although it is a crucial factor in the debate over information flows and their international geopolitics. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is the first event of its kind within the United Nations to deal with the issue of information in th