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This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the
complex interrelationship between technological change,
globalisation, 'Europeanisation', national institutional
structures, and the transfer of ideas in the reform of European
telecommunications regulation.Globalisation, Convergence and
European Telecommunications Regulation analyses the achievements
and limitations of over twenty years of EU efforts to liberalise
markets and to harmonise regulation. A key feature is the author's
treatment of the EU's regulatory policy response to technological
convergence in the information and communications sector, through
its new Electronic Communications Regulatory Framework. The book
explores in detail the dynamics of the complex relationship between
technological and globalisation pressures, economic interests and
European and national policy responses. A key finding is persistent
Member State diversity in regulatory implementation alongside
remarkable policy convergence on a new institutional model for the
telecommunications sector. An overarching trend is the emergence of
distinct features of a 'regulatory state', at national and EU
level, in the telecommunications sector. Contributing to the
ongoing debate on the role of the EC and the extent to which EU
telecommunications policy can be described as 'supranational', this
book will strongly appeal to academics, researchers, students and
practitioners involved in the fields of technology, public policy
and European studies.
This book breaks new ground by exploring governance strategies that
the EU has been developing over the last decade for the growing
electronic economy driven by the Internet. Through an analysis of
key EU policy initiatives, the authors provide an explanation of
both the form and mechanics of emergent governance arrangements
within the European e-economy. Drawing on data gathered through
interviews with key national and EU level policymakers, the volume
applies theoretical insights from academic work on the 'regulatory'
and 'post-regulatory' state to situate and explain the EU's role as
an international regional actor in a new area of economic activity
with important national and global dimensions.The New Electronic
Marketplace will be important reading for academics, students and
policymakers interested in the politics of new electronic
communications regulation, communications policy, EU governance and
international political economy. The book will interest the
Internet 'policy community', including officials at national and EU
level, those working in national regulatory authorities, and
Internet, telecoms and other ICT professionals in the private
sector.
With digital technologies blurring media boundaries, this book
provides a detailed analysis of how the Internet is producing a
convergence of the press, audio-visual and online media. Based on
extensive empirical analysis, the authors analyse over 25 years of
changes to media forms and expose the reality behind the notion
that media convergence is inevitable and inexorable. Peter
Humphreys and Seamus Simpson break new ground through exploring a
diverse range of topics at the heart of the media convergence
governance debate, such as next generation networks, spectrum,
copyright and media subsidies. They highlight how reluctance to
accommodate non-market based policy solutions creates conflicts and
problems resulting in only shallow media convergence thus far.
Highly accessible, this book is a valuable read for undergraduate
and masters students researching digital media and communications.
With guidance on a series of policy directions and innovations that
should be developed to fulfil the promise of media convergence, it
is also a vital tool for media and communication practitioners and
policy makers.
Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and
functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond. This book brings
together the work of a range of leading media policy scholars to
provide inroads to a better understanding of how effective media
policies can be developed to ensure a healthy communication sector
that contributes to the wellbeing of individual citizens, as well
as a more democratic society. Faced with a general atmosphere of
disillusionment in the European project, one of the core questions
tackled by the volume's contributors is: what scope is there for
European media policy that can exist beyond the national level?
Uniquely, the volume's chapters are structured around four key
policy themes: media convergence; the continued role and position
of public regulatory intervention in media policy; policy issues
arising from the development of new electronic communication
network environments; and lessons for European media policy from
cases beyond the EU. In its chapters, the volume provides enriched
understandings of the role and significance of policy actors,
institutions, structures, instruments and processes in
communication and media policy.
Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and
functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond. This book brings
together the work of a range of leading media policy scholars to
provide inroads to a better understanding of how effective media
policies can be developed to ensure a healthy communication sector
that contributes to the wellbeing of individual citizens, as well
as a more democratic society. Faced with a general atmosphere of
disillusionment in the European project, one of the core questions
tackled by the volume's contributors is: what scope is there for
European media policy that can exist beyond the national level?
Uniquely, the volume's chapters are structured around four key
policy themes: media convergence; the continued role and position
of public regulatory intervention in media policy; policy issues
arising from the development of new electronic communication
network environments; and lessons for European media policy from
cases beyond the EU. In its chapters, the volume provides enriched
understandings of the role and significance of policy actors,
institutions, structures, instruments and processes in
communication and media policy.
The book addresses representation of the public interest in
Internet standard developing organisations (SDOs). Much of the
existing literature on Internet governance focuses on international
organisations such as the United Nations (UN), the Internet
Governance Forum (IGF) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN). The literature covering standard
developing organisations has to date focused on organisational
aspects. This book breaks new ground with investigation of standard
development within SDO fora. Case studies centre on standards
relating to privacy and security, mobile communications,
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and copyright. The book lifts
the lid on internet standard setting with detailed insight into a
world which, although highly technical, very much affects the way
in which citizens live and work on a daily basis. In doing this it
adds significantly to the trajectory of research on Internet
standards and SDOs that explore the relationship between politics
and protocols. The analysis contributes to academic debates on
democracy and the internet, global self-regulation and civil
society, and international decision-making processes in
unstructured environments. The book advances work on the Multiple
Streams Framework (MS) by applying it to decision-making in
non-state environments, namely SDOs which have long been dominated
by private actors. The book is aimed at academic audiences in
political science, computer science, communications, and science
and technology studies as well as representatives from civil
society, the civil service, government, engineers and experts
working within SDO fora. It will also be accessible to students at
the postgraduate and undergraduate levels.
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