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Civil society activism and Communication-information policy
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:58:22 -0400
Begin forwarded message: 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 policyDate: 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 issuesin 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. _______________________________________________ Plenary mailing list Plenary () wsis-cs org http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
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