Strategies for Media Reform: International Perspectives
Des Freedman, Jonathan Obar, Cheryl Martens, and Robert W. McChesney
Abstract
This collection brings together strategies for advancing media reform objectives, prepared by 33 scholars and activists working in and/or studying in more than 25 countries, including: Canada, Mexico and the United States; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Uruguay, and Venezuela; Iceland; Germany, Switzerland and the UK; Burma/Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines; Egypt, Ghana, Israel and Qatar. Contributors first presented their ideas in the summer of 2013 at a preconference of the International Communication Association, hosted by Goldsmiths, Universit ... More
This collection brings together strategies for advancing media reform objectives, prepared by 33 scholars and activists working in and/or studying in more than 25 countries, including: Canada, Mexico and the United States; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Uruguay, and Venezuela; Iceland; Germany, Switzerland and the UK; Burma/Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines; Egypt, Ghana, Israel and Qatar. Contributors first presented their ideas in the summer of 2013 at a preconference of the International Communication Association, hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London in the UK. The goal then, as it is now, was to bring together successful and promising strategies for media reform to be shared across international lines and media reform contexts. The editors and authors hope this volume will serve as a useful resource for scholars and activists alike, looking to better understand the concept of media reform, and how it is being advanced around the world. The book is organized into four sections: contexts, digital activism, media reform movements, and media reform in action. It opens with a consideration of some theoretical approaches to media reform while the digital activism section includes chapters that present a range of strategies that media reformers might want to consider. The section on media reform movements includes examples from across the globe and highlights a variety of online and offline strategies to achieve change. The final section consists of short chapters submitted by activist organizations that include a description of their mission and examples of successful strategies employed in the pursuit of media reform goals.
Keywords:
digital activism,
international communication,
journalism,
media activism,
media reform,
media power,
public service broadcasting,
network neutrality,
reform strategies,
social movement
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780823271641 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: January 2017 |
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823271641.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Des Freedman, editor
Goldsmiths, University of London
Jonathan Obar, editor
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Cheryl Martens, editor
Bournemouth University and la Universidad de las Américas
Robert W. McChesney, editor
University of Illinois Center for Global Studies
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