Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power
by Monroe E. Price
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Author: Monroe E. PriceEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN: 0262661861
Number of pages: 326
Publisher: The MIT Press
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Book Review: A distinctive voice
Summary: 5 Stars
Price has an amazing ear for language, whether he is writing the words himself or curating the words of his sources, he produces a unique voice. When writing about the role of the Internet in international information flows he comments that "the internet providers are legion" and a balace is struck between "the yin of illegality and the yang of of coping with harmful material" (p. 121).
In the chapter analyzing how immigrants use the media to learn about their destination countries, he analyses a passage from journalist Duncan Campbell who says that after watching television, a group of Czech asylum seekers thought that Britain was "a land of jocular men and compassionate princesses where Gypsy boys would be hugged on freshly cut lawns." (p. 41).
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Honorable Mention for the 2002 Communication Policy Research Award presented by The Donald McGannon Communication Research CenterMedia have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than the activities of large conglomerates, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world's consciousness. Changes in formal and informal rules, in addition to technological innovation, affect the growth and survival or decline of governments.
In Media and Sovereignty, Monroe Price focuses on emerging foreign policies that govern media in a world where war has information as well as military fronts. Price asks how the state, in the face of institutional and technological change, controls the forms of information reaching its citizens. He also provides a framework for analyzing the techniques used by states to influence populations in other states. Price draws on an international array of examples of regulation of media for political ends, including "self-regulation," media regulation in conflict zones, the control of harmful and illegal content, and the use of foreign aid to alter media in target societies.
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