Making Media Policy: Looking Forward, Looking Back

2008 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
Jock Given
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Stream ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Forward Looking

Seeking papers for the media stream at the conference and articles for this issue of Media International Australia, our aim was to examine contemporary media policy issues that benefited from some kind of historical analysis. Rather than starting with history, confident that it served up powerful and useful lessons, the idea was to begin with the current policy challenges and see whether history helped. Unsurprisingly, most authors found it did — though not always, and for different reasons.

scholarly journals Creating the Conditions for Communication in the Public Good

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Raboy
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Politiques Publiques ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media And Communication

Abstract: Contemporary media in all their guises support and sustain an unprecedented platform for communication and public discussion — for those who are able to participate. Creating an environment in which media can flourish is the domain of public policy. The media policy framework and the possibilities that it provides are terribly misunderstood. That does not mean that media policy should be cast aside. Using a range of historical and contemporary issues and examples, this article explores how people and their public institutions can create the conditions that enable media and communication technologies to serve the public good. Résumé : Les médias contemporains sous toutes leurs formes favorisent le maintien d’une plate-forme inédite pour la communication et les débats publics-accessible à ceux et celles qui sont en mesure d’y participer. La création d’un environnement au sein duquel les médias pourront prospérer relève des politiques publiques. Le cadre politique médiatique et les possibilités qu’il recèle sont extrêmement mal interprétés. Ce qui ne signifie pas pour autant qu’il faille le mettre au rancart. S’appuyant sur une gamme d’enjeux et d’exemples historiques et contemporains, cet article explore comment les gens et les institutions publiques peuvent créer les conditions grâce auxquelles les technologies médiatiques et de communication serviront les intérêts du public.

The Cold War and After

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Trachtenberg
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International System ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Nuclear Strategy ◽  
Book Deal ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
Shed Light

What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? This book explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with specific problems—with such matters as nuclear strategy and U.S.–European relations. But the book's main goal is to show how in practice a certain type of scholarly work can be done. The book demonstrates how, in studying international politics, the conceptual and empirical sides of the analysis can be made to connect with each other, and how historical, theoretical, and even policy issues can be tied together in an intellectually respectable way. These essays address a wide variety of topics, from theoretical and policy issues, such as the question of preventive war and the problem of international order, to more historical subjects—for example, American policy on Eastern Europe in 1945 and Franco-American relations during the Nixon–Pompidou period. But in each case, the aim is to show how a theoretical perspective can be brought to bear on the analysis of historical issues, and how historical analysis can shed light on basic conceptual problems.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health — Current Policy Issues

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Australian Bureau ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
Torres Strait Islander Health

This article addresses Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health problems and critically investigates current government policies which are attempting to raise the health standards of these Indigenous people. Particular emphasis will be placed on the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, which, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics census in 1986, stood at just over 61,000 or 2.4 per cent of the State's population.

“Germany in ruins”. Framing new political movements in Germany in the Polish opinion-forming press

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-119
Author(s):  
Karol Franczak
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
New Right ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

Abstract One of the main goals of contemporary media, along with the experts and professionals, who speak in them, has been to explain complex issues and provide the audience with clear descriptions of social reality. This is mostly achieved by the production of ideologically useful interpretative schemes that facilitate understanding of the issues present on the media agenda. An important strategy of shaping the public opinion in the way in which public affairs and the activity of social life participants is framed. Analyses of such practices have been conducted for over thirty years within various research approaches collectively referred to as framing analysis. This research provides several arguments helping one to develop a more critical perspective on the representations of social phenomena dominant in the media and discourses of symbolic elites (e.g. opinion writers, academics, experts, journalists, politicians), along with the analyses of the origin of such phenomena, moral judgements and preferred "corrective policies". One of the phenomena defined by the media in Europe as the most important one for the past several years, is the so-called "New Right". The aim of the paper is to analyse the interpretative schemes used by the journalists of four Polish opinion-forming weeklies and to describe the activity of its German manifestation – the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident (Pegida) social movement and the Alternative for Germany party (AfD).

scholarly journals Remix in the age of ubiquitous remix

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652199445
Author(s):  
Abby S. Waysdorf
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Accepted Part ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Way

What is remix today? No longer a controversy, no longer a buzzword, remix is both everywhere and nowhere in contemporary media. This article examines this situation, looking at what remix now means when it is, for the most part, just an accepted part of the media landscape. I argue that remix should be looked at from an ethnographic point of view, focused on how and why remixes are used. To that end, this article identifies three ways of conceptualizing remix, based on intention rather than content: the aesthetic, communicative, and conceptual forms. It explores the history of (talking about) remix, looking at the tension between seeing remix as a form of art and remix as a mode of ‘talking back’ to the media, and how those tensions can be resolved in looking at the different ways remix originated. Finally, it addresses what ubiquitous remix might mean for the way we think about archival material, and the challenges this brings for archives themselves. In this way, this article updates the study of remix for a time when remix is everywhere.

scholarly journals Looking Forward, Looking Back

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance Gunderson ◽  
Carl Folke
Keyword(s):  
Looking Back ◽  
Forward Looking
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