Actors and Interactions in Global Communication Governance: The Heuristic Potential of a Network Approach

The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 543-563

  Padovani, Claudia ^a   Pavan, Elena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actors and interactions in global communication governance heuristic potential of a network approach; complexity, including above mentioned features multitude of interactions taking place; Confronted with difficulties of "researching the global" defining network boundaries, processes fragmented and interconnected in a multi level environment; Contemporary developments in areas of media, communication, information and culture multifaceted policy challenges; Different types of networks when considering networks, two key elements deserving specific attention; Global communication governance as a complex domain; Investigating global communication governance through a network approach; Moving beyond concept of multi stakeholderism; Network, a powerful image portraying growing complexity in contemporary societies, policy outcomes as the result of interactions among a plurality of agents; Politics in global context, being no longer the sole space for inter state relations and diplomatic practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859905977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395433.ch33     Document Type: Chapter

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