Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Communication Rights and the History of Ideas....Pages 17-28
Communication Rights and Media Justice between Political and Discursive Opportunities: An Historical Perspective....Pages 29-54
Living the New International Information Order....Pages 55-73
Continuities and Change in the Nexus of Communication and Development....Pages 74-93
Are States Still Important? Reflections on the Nexus between National and Global Media and Communication Policy....Pages 94-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
The Democratization of Communication: Latin American Perspectives and Initiatives....Pages 115-134
Beyond the Dominant Paradigm of Communication Rights? Observations from South Asia....Pages 135-151
Establishing a ‘Rights Regime’ in Iran: Thinking Communications, Politics and Gender Together....Pages 152-163
Communication Rights as a Networking Reality: Community Radio in Europe....Pages 164-179
Media Reform and Communication Rights in the USA....Pages 180-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-202
Media Justice and Communication Rights....Pages 203-218
Bringing Communication Back In: Social Movements and Media....Pages 219-233
Reframing Communication Rights: Why Gender Matters....Pages 234-248
Practising Communication Rights: Cases from South Korea and Honduras....Pages 249-268
Communication Rights and Neoliberal Development: Technopolitics in India....Pages 269-287
Remixing the Spring! Connective Leadership and Read-Write Practices in the 2011 Arab Uprisings....Pages 288-304
Afterword....Pages 305-307
Back Matter....Pages 308-358