Copyright (c) 2009 University of Pennsylvania All rights reserved. http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers Recent documents in Departmental Papers (ASC) en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:22:44 PST 3600 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/147 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/147 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:21:07 PST My purpose in this chapter is to suggest a particular mode of thinking about media and global civil society: ways in which major groups that seek to mould opinion around the world interact with each other, with states and corporations, with domestic regulatory systems and with international organisations and structures. I start with an approach I developed in a book called Television, Ihe Public Sphere, and National Identity (Price 1995) and expanded in Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and its Challenge to State Power (Price 2002). There I described the existence of a 'market for loyalties', in which large-scale competitors for power, in a shuffle for allegiances, often use the regulation of communications to organise a cartel of imagery and identity among themselves. In the retrospectively simple state centred version of a market for loyalties, government is usually not only the mechanism that allows the cartel to operate, but is often part of the cartel itself. Management of the market yields the mix of ideas and narratives employed by a dominant group or coalition to maintain power. For fulfilling that process - or attempting to do so - control over participation in the market has been, for many countries, a condition of political stability. Monroe E. Price http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/146 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/146 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:34:25 PST During the past decade a number of bloody conflicts have focused international attention on the strategic role of the media in promoting war and perpetuating chaos. The challenges posed by systematic manipulation of the media have been particularly acute in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, East Timor - wherever the international community intervened to prevent atrocities, or stop them, or help rebuild society in their aftermath.Written against this backdrop, Forging Peace brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO and other organisations, both governmental and non-governmental, have taken to build pluralist and independent media in the wake of massive human rights violations.Forging Peace maps an important aspect of contemporary peacemaking. It examines current thinking on the legality of unilateral humanitarian intervention, then analyses in graphic detail the pioneering use of information intervention techniques in conflict zones, ranging from full-scale bombardment and confiscation of transmitters to the establishment of new laws and regulatory regimes.As the social and economic role of the media expands and information technology spreads, driving governments in the world's trouble spots to seek more sophisticated ways of controlling public opinion, Forging Peace looks set to influence policy and debate for years to come. Peter Krug http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/145 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/145 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:30:36 PST THE EXTENSIVE REFORMS of the International Telecommunication Union, the result of extraordinary efforts over the last decade to redefine the future of international regulation, have not reduced the call for even stronger global jurisdiction over the booming growth and cascading transnational impact of telecoms and media organisations. In this essay, I examine the underlying tensions that make international agreement on a Global Communications Commission, with tough law-making and regulatory authority, so hard to achieve. My method is to project from the national experience to the transnational. I argue that media law and regulation, in the national context, enacts what I call a market for loyalties. Law serves to mediate among groups competing to affect or control national identity. Only if there is consensus among the major competitors in this market (which, as we shall see, is different from the market for goods), does law come effectively into play. Media law and regulation, with important, but irrelevant exceptions, exists, generally, for the convenience of those whom it is designed to serve. Monroe E. Price http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/144 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/144 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:08:29 PST Achieving pubilc service pluralism in the Unites States context is so idiosyncratic, so much a product of particular historic and governmental developments, that it is diffi cult to draw lessons that are useful for the United Kingdom. The differences are rooted in the distinct (1) role of federally licensed commercial stations; (2) expectations about the contributions of public broadcasting to pluralism in program offerings; and (3) structures of public broadcasting. In this brief essay, we try to show what aspects of pluralism and diversity are valued in the very special case of US media policy and how the idea of public service plays out at a time when an increasingly fractionated society faces a fractionated array of media offerings. Ellen P. Goodman http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/143 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/143 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:28:44 PDT Monroe Price, of the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Peter Krug of the University of Oklahoma College of Law discuss the interaction of formal law, administrative process and the broader enabling conditions for the effective functioning of healthy media systems. Bad law is not the greatest threat to media freedoms, rather administrative acts which apply the law arbitrarily or beyond its proper legal boundaries. Moreover, audiences need 'a special kind of literacy..that encompasses a desire to acquire, interpret and apply information as part of civil society'. This is essential for the broader enabling media environment. However, more research is required to decode how the many elements of the enabling environment for independent media can be linked to phases of national political transitions. Monroe E. Price http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/142 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/142 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:19:41 PDT Monroe E. Price http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/141 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/141 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:13:20 PDT Monroe E. Price http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/140 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/140 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:54 PDT Monroe E. Price http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/139 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/139 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:53 PDT Monroe E. Price http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/138 http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/138 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:17:41 PDT Klaus Krippendorff