Estructura y políticas de la comunicación

Este libro ofrece algunas de las claves que permiten entender el funcionamiento de los medios de comunicación en el escenario actual global. Diferencia y clarifica los múltiples desarrollos de los nuevos medios y ofrece instrumentos de análisis que permiten comprender las verdaderas dimensiones de la nueva era mediática. Además brinda al lector elementos de reflexión y de conocimiento sobre la acción mediática para poderla caracterizar de forma adecuada y precisa.
Esta obra está pensada con un doble propósito: ayudar a los estudiantes de las carreras relacionadas con el mundo de la comunicación en su proceso de formación; aunque también desea ofrecer una panorámica actualizada de la nueva era mediática a profesionales y académicos que tienen interés por conocer la dinámica de los medios a nivel global, especialmente en los temas sobre su estructura y actuaciones en políticas de comunicación.

Just how important are public service media to democratic culture? Stephen Cushion puts forward the convincing argument that, for all the commercial choice and competition in contemporary news culture, public service media do not only remain distinctive from market-driven media, they contribute to raising the editorial standards of journalism more widely as well.

At a time when public service media are under increasing pressure to justify their licence fees, Cushion undertakes a comprehensive review of studies examining the 'quality' of journalism produced by public and market-driven media around the world. In doing so, some important and timely questions are raised: Do public service media supply editorially distinctive news to market-driven media? Should citizens continue to subsidize news when so much commercial competition and choice is available? Reviewing also the impact news has on people's knowledge, civic participation and levels of trust towards competing media systems, he finds that the democratic value of news is more likely to be enhanced when it is produced by public rather than market-driven media.

The Democratic Value of News provides a useful hybrid of theory and practice and helpfully introduces the concept and history of public service broadcasting. It aims to develop and encourage scholarship asking whether public service media are distinctive from market-driven systems, in addition to serving as an invaluable textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Media, Journalism and Communication studies.

STEPHEN CUSHION is a Lecturer in Journalism at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK.

Religious broadcasting in the Middle East has benefited tremendously from new, transnational media networks and the widespread availability of satellite broadcasting technology. Mainstream news channels, such as Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, broadcast popular religious programming, in some cases filled with highly politicized content (Hamas’s Al-Aqsa and Hizbullah’s Al-Manar, for example), and in others featuring more apolitical commentary, concerned only with preaching God’s word. Having reviewed a diverse selection of the region’s most influential religious channels and programs, the contributors to this volume present pioneering interpretations of the Middle East’s burgeoning religious media market. They explore dominant themes and discourses and the manner and behavior of celebrity hosts and personalities eager to master and influence the dynamics of a rapidly expanding platform.

La televisión, como el resto de los medios, está siendo atravesada y modificada radicalmente por internet. Se trata de un verdadero tsunami que está afectando incluso al concepto en el que el medio se había basado hasta ahora: un flujo de programación al que el espectador se conecta.
En este nuevo ecosistema la oferta de las cadenas ya no es determinante sino que es el espectador el que decide qué quiere ver, así como cuándo y dónde desea hacerlo.
La televisión es todavía el medio hegemónico, con un consumo estable y casi universal. Sin embargo, internet crece a gran velocidad, amenazando esa supremacía. Algunos consideran que ese crecimiento supone una amenaza para la televisión, que podría verse obligada a abandonar su actual estatus privilegiado. Otros, por el contrario, ven en la red un aliado de la nueva televisión.

Este es el quinto libro publicado por el foro de debate «Transformar la televisión», que se reúne anualmente en la sede de La Casa Encendida, en Madrid, durante el Festival Urban TV (www.urbantvfestival.org); una iniciativa que ha cumplido 11 años, gracias al apoyo de La Casa Encendida, de la obra Social de Caja Madrid, y de la empresa Avatar Wildlife. El objetivo de este foro de debate es reunir a expertos y profesionales de la televisión, para analizar problemas y buscar soluciones, para un medio de comunicación que, a nuestro juicio, ha dejado de servir a los intereses de los ciudadanos, para convertirse casi exclusivamente en un negocio.

For the first time, the European Audiovisual Observatory has analysed the relative fortunes of European films released outside the EU. The report analyses the success of European films released in 11 major non-European markets as tracked by Rentrak Corporation, the international leading reference source on box office and admission.

El Dr. Sepúlveda transita por la historia de los medios en Puerto Rico y por su origen en términos generales para construir nueva teorización mediática. Propone unas críticas y utopías de las prácticas y rutinas profesionales mediáticas. Se cuestiona la conducta ética de los profesionales que la confunden con la de la empresa, invisibilizando la responsabilidad social. Teoriza sobre las culturas populares, específicamente aquellas de los grupos juveniles y sus escasos espacios mediáticos en la Isla. Finalmente, teoriza y propone la importancia del saber comunicacional y la de sus investigadores como intelectuales en lo que él llama la "democracia mediática".

Media Governance today is shifting media rules and regulations from national government policies to local, regional, national, multinational and international ones and away from exclusively governmental domains to others, such as market, professional and public interest/pressure groups.

Many media-related civil society organisations are based in Brussels, operate at a European level and influence exactly the part of Media Governance that has escaped the national shackles of the member states. But which are those organizations and who do they represent? Which are the relevant EU regulations for the different media industries that they try to influence? How do they participate in the media related debates in the different EU institutions? What are their major position papers? What is the current state of affairs in the European Media Governance relevant to their industry and what are the future issues that they are trying to tackle early enough at a European level? Finally, how are their lobbying efforts coordinated with other political, professional and public interest groups?

This book presents the work of 11 of these European organizations from a variety of media sectors, as well as the relevant work of the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Consumers Association.

Featuring specially commissioned chapters from experts in the field of media and communications law, this book provides an authoritative survey of media law from a comparative perspective.

The handbook does not simply offer a synopsis of the state of affairs in media law jurisprudence, rather it provides a better understanding of the forces that generate media rules, norms, and standards against the background of major transformations in the way information is mediated as a result of democratization, economic development, cultural change, globalization and technological innovation.

The book addresses a range of issues including:

Media Law and Evolving Concepts of Democracy
Network neutrality and traffic management
Public Service Broadcasting in Europe
Interception of Communication and Surveillance in Russia
State secrets, leaks and the media
A variety of rule-making institutions are considered, including administrative, and judicial entities within and outside government, but also entities such as associations and corporations that generate binding rules. The book assesses the emerging role of supranational economic and political groupings as well as non-Western models, such as China and India, where cultural attitudes toward media freedoms are often very different.

Monroe E. Price is Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for the University of Pennsylvania and Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law.

Stefaan Verhulst is Chief of Research at the Markle Foundation. Previously he was the co-founder and co-director, with Professor Monroe Price, of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at Oxford University, as well as senior research fellow at the Centre for Socio Legal Studies.

Libby Morgan is the Associate Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for the University of Pennsylvania.

Recent changes in the economic and political world scenario have been dominated by an increasing globalizing process and a constant capital mobilization. This process has left a significant mark on nation-based economies and cultural systems, giving a prominent role to the economic agencies and sectors involved in information and communication industries. The influence and side-effects of this new scenario for public policies in southern countries are just uncertain.

The present volume provides the analytical and conceptual framework from which to explore the issue of political economy of communication. The chapters introduce the reader to the knowledge of the features, inner contradictions and the dialectics of regional alternative communication versus information control. By doing this, different questions are addressed: from the ideological perspectives implied in the ethnocentric reproduction of prevalent cultural paradigms (and the persistence of cultural inequalities), to central issues concerning the “digital revolution” and its impact on the political economy of communication and culture worldwide, with a special emphasis on Latin America.

Contents: Introduction, César Bolaño, Guillermo Mastrini and Francisco Sierra. Intellectual Work, Communication and Capitalism: The Reconfiguration of the Subjective Factor in the Current Productive Reorganization, César Bolaño. An Old Technology of Information and Communication: Some Implications, Cesare Giuseppe Galvan. Strategies of the Media Groups in the Convergence Era, Juan Carlos Miguel. Communication Networks, Learning, and Society, Gaëtan Tremblay. Telematics Information and Education Society: Economy, Policies, and Logics of Knowledge Socialization, Delia Crovi Druetta and Francisco Sierra Caballero.. The New International Division of Cultural Labor, Toby Miller and George Yúdice. Political Culture and Media Culture, Ancízar Narváez Montoya. Communication Economy, Social Logics and Territoriality, Alain Herscovici. New Policies for Diversity: Territorial Cultures at Risk Due to Globalization, Ramón Zallo. Cultural Industries and the New Digital Networks, Luis A. Albornoz. Culture Reproduction or Reproduction Culture?: Toward a New Framework of Regulation and Exploitation of Cultural Products on the Internet, Juan C. Calvi. Structure of the Info-Communications Sector in Latin America, Guillermo Mastrini and Martín Becerra. Information and Global Communication: Understanding the 21st Century, Othon Jambeiro, Valério Cruz Brittos, and Anita Simis. Pan-American Audiovisual Integration and the Shrinking Latin American Cinema Industry: Market Falality or Policy Alternative?, Enrique E. Sánchez Ruiz. Author Index. Subject Index.

Desde que Horkheimer y Adorno acuñaron la expresión industria cultural, si bien con el propósito de demostrar que los términos del binomio eran antitéticos, una pléyade de estudios e instituciones han resaltado la importancia económica adquirida la cultura y la comunicación en las últimas décadas, tanto por su papel de catalizador de la creatividad y la innovación como por su contribución al crecimiento y al empleo. En este último aspecto, la Comisión Europea cifra su aportación, circunscrita al ámbito de las que denomina industrias culturales y creativas (ICC), en el 2,6 % del PIB y en unos cinco millones de empleos de calidad en el conjunto de los 27 países que integran la Unión Europea. Y tal vez esas cifras, con ser relevantes, constituyen solo un pálido reflejo del papel central que el sector desempeña en los procesos de desarrollo sostenible, superador del productivismo y del mero crecimiento cuantitativo. Esta edición europea e iberoamericana recoge 32 investigaciones presentadas en 2111 en la Isla del Pensamiento de Galicia (en San Simón, Redondela, frente a Vigo) en francés, español, gallego y portugués sobre el tema de este libro.