Civil society activism and Communication-information policy

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Adam Peake <ajp () glocom ac jp>
Date: July 15, 2004 11:42:41 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Civil society activism and Communication-information policy

Skimming through, looks very interesting.  For IP?

Adam



> From: "Milton Mueller" <mueller () syr edu>
> To: <governance () lists cpsr org>, <plenary () wsis-cs org>
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Civil society activism and 
> Communication-information policy
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:50:34 -0400
>
> This may be of interest....
>
> ======
> Syracuse University's Convergence Center releases report
> on citizens' role in shaping communication and information
> policy
> ======
>
> "Reinventing Media Activism: Public Interest Advocacy
> in the Making of U.S. Communication-Information Policy,
> 1960-2002"
>
> The research report analyzes the role of citizens groups in
> shaping communication and information policy. The full report
> and the data on which it was based can be downloaded for
> free at http://dcc.syr.edu/ford/tnca.htm
>
> The study traces the evolution of citizen advocacy from the
> broadcast licensing challenges of the late 1960s and 1970s
> through the telecommunication regulation reforms of the
> 1980s, the battles over privacy and Internet censorship of
> the 1990s and the conflicts over digital intellectual property
> and media concentration in the early 2000s.
>
> The report had its genesis in a realization that there was
> no long-term, strategic analysis of public interest advocacy
> around communication and information policy, despite the
> fact that philanthropic foundations and members fund such
> groups and many people join or support them.
>
> For activists and policy-oriented advocacy groups, the
> report provides a sense of historical perspective, an analysis
> of different modes of advocacy used in communication and
> information policy, and an assessment of its sources of
> strength and its weaknesses.
>
> "This is a long-term analysis of organized efforts by citizens
> to change public policy toward communication and
> information," says the report's principal author, Professor
> Milton Mueller of the Syracuse University School of
> Information Studies
>
> The research was funded by the Ford Foundation's
> Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program.
>
> Report Summary:
>
> Chapter 1: A Vision of the Policy Domain
> We define and defend a vision of communication and information
> policy (CIP) as a comprehensive and integrated policy domain.
> We also define and describe the three primary modes of advocacy
> around CIP issues.
>
> Chapter 2: A Goal: Institutional Change
> We draw on theories of institutions and institutional change to
> provide both a goal for specifying what citizen collective action
> could achieve, and a benchmark for assessing its impact.
>
> Chapter 3: A Bird's Eye View: Four Decades of Congressional
> Activity and Interest Group Organization in CIP
> A macroscopic overview of the quantitative data.
>
> Chapter 4: The 1960s and 1970s
> We describe and assess the mass media activism of the mid-
> 1960s and 1970s around broadcasting and cable, the period
> of the most rapid rate of growth in the population.
>
> Chapter 5: The 1980s
> We describe how the 1980s was characterized by major
> changes in both the political climate and the type of
> communication-information policy issues under consideration.
> We document the appearance of computer professionals and technologists 
> organizing around computer-related policy issues
> in the organizational population for the first time.
>
> Chapter 6: The 1990s and early 2000s
> We show how digital technology became the focal point of
> institutional change in CIP, leading to an explosion of
> Congressional activity, bringing in a new generation of advocacy
> groups and creating a major change in the composition of the
> advocacy organization population.
>
> Chapter 7: Conclusions
> We attempt to summarize our findings and draw some conclusions
> about the future of CIP advocacy organizations and their policy
> agenda.
>
>
>
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