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The ideas and explanation in this book are a very welcome antidote to
the dominant discourse of the virtues of the market, new technologies
and competition. The proponents of technological determinism have
for the past ten years asserted that greater audiovisual delivery capacity
will automatically deliver diversity and pluralism and have sought
to roll back virtually all audiovisual regulation. The authors describe
well the valid political, social, economic and particularly cultural questions
which demand an answer if the public interest is to be served in
communications policy and the regulation which should flow from it.
The authors rightly underline that the screen, large or small, is
central to our democratic, creative, cultural and social life and that
policy-makers should give greater space to the views of civil society and
parliamentarians interested in advancing the public interest. Rare is the
attention paid to the realities of the digital divide as played out across
the globe which provides important information for campaigners for
greater technological redistribution and cultural diversity worldwide.
Carole Tongue
Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London
Former MEP spokesperson on public service broadcasting
Premised on the fact that there are different globalizations going
on today, this comprehensive study successfully integrates structural
and symbolic analyses of communications and media policy in the
conflicted spaces of the nation-state, trans-nation, and sub-nation.
Chakravartty and Sarikakis’s remarkably systematic approach to media
policy, technology, content, and civil society formation fills in crucial
details left behind by grand theory, including progressive postcolonial
theories of global communication. In doing so, the book re-energizes
the hackneyed field of international media studies and transforms it.
John Nguyet Erni
City University of Hong Kong