Governance and the "commoditization" of information

Global Governance

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-233

  Comor, Edward A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032221230     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-00402007     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. James N. Rosenau, "Governance in the Twenty-first Century," Global Governance 1, no. 1 (winter 1995): 39. Also see Rosenau, "Imposing Global Order: Perspectives on World Politics" (mimeograph, 1995).
2. James N. Rosenau, "Governance in the Twenty-first Century," Global Governance 1, no. 1 (winter 1995): 39. Also see Rosenau, "Imposing Global Order: Perspectives on World Politics" (mimeograph, 1995).
3. Al Gore and Ronald H. Brown, Global Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Cooperation (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995).
4. Rick Henderson, "Cyberdemocracy," Reason (April 1995): 43-46.
5. Robert S. Fortner, "Excommunication in the Information Society," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 12, no. 2 (June 1995): 142.
6. Graham Murdock and Peter Golding, "Information Poverty and Political Inequality: Citizenship in the Age of Privatized Communications," Journal of Communication 39, no. 3 (summer 1989): 192.
7. Fortner, "Excommunication in the Information Society," p. 138.
8. Ibid., p. 139.
9. Rosenau, "Governance in the Twenty-first Century," pp. 23-24.
10. Joseph Camilleri, quoted in Rosenau, ibid.
11. See L. David Ritchie, "Another Turn of the Information Revolution, Relevance, Technology, and the Information Society," Communication Research 18, no. 3 (June 1991): 412-427.
12. On this general perspective, see Paul Levinson, Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1988).
13. Ian Parker, "Myth, Telecommunication and the Emerging Global Informational Order: The Political Economy of Transitions," in Edward A. Comor, ed., The Global Political Economy of Communication: Hegemony, Telecommunication, and the Information Economy (London: Macmillan; New York: St.Martin's Press, 1994), p. 47.
14. Rosenau, "Governance in the Twenty-first Century," p. 14.
15. Martin Hewson, "Governance and Visualization: Multilateralism Embedded in the Knowledge Structure," manuscript prepared for the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, 1995.
16. Lawrence S. Finkelstein, "What Is Global Governance?" Global Governance 1, no. 3 (September-December 1995): 368-369.
17. Edward Comor, "The Re-Tooling of American Hegemony: U.S. Foreign Communication Policy from Free Flow to Free Trade," in A. Sreberny-Mohammadi et al., eds., Media in Global Context (London: Edward Arnold, 1997).
18. See David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), especially pp. 121-197.
19. Joan Edelman Spero, "Information: The Policy Void," Foreign Policy 48 (fall 1982): 155.
20. Robert Horwitz, "The First Amendment Meets Some New Technologies," Theory and Society 20, no. 1 (February 1991): 21-72.
21. Jeremy Tunstall, Communications Deregulation (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), pp. 198-199.
22. U.S. Department of Commerce, "Comprehensive Study of the Globalization of Mass Media Firms," notice of inquiry issued by National Telecommunications and Information Administration, February 1990, p. 7.
23. Emory Simon, deputy assistant United States trade representative, interviewed by the author, Washington, D.C., 9 September 1992.
24. David Harvey, "Globalization in Question" (manuscript, 1996), pp. 13-14 (italics added).
25. The most comprehensive collection of Innis's work is Harold A. Innis, Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995).
26. Rosenau, "Governance in the Twenty-first Century," p. 14.
27. Ibid., p. 15.
28. Ibid., p. 16.
29. Ibid., p. 17.
30. Ibid.