Strategies for Media Reform

International Perspectives

By: Des Freedman (Editor), Jonathan A. Obar, Cheryl Martens, Robert W. McChesney

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Hardcover | 4 August 2016

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How does Free Press fight for network neutrality in the US? How did the Electronic Frontier Foundation contribute to the defeat of SOPA/PIPA? How did Openmedia.ca impede the surveillance apparatus in Canada? How did the Media Reform Coalition attempt to intervene in efforts to democratize media ownership following the phone hacking crisis in the UK? How did the Campaign for Media Reform organize against media monopolies in Taiwan?

Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. Yet media reformers confront formidable challenges: entrenched commercial interests and media conglomerates; neoliberal governments; a general public that is often disenfranchised and not focused on issues of media reform; an often hostile media; and, as with all activists, difficult questions concerning how best to organize to achieve change. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus and digital literacy, what effective strategies can be used in the pursuit of effective media reform?

This collection brings together strategies for advancing media reform objectives, prepared by 33 scholars and activists working in and/or studying in more than 25 countries, including: Canada, Mexico and the United States; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Uruguay, and Venezuela; Iceland; Germany, Switzerland and the UK; Burma/Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines; Egypt, Ghana, Israel and Qatar.
This volume will serve as a vital resource for scholars and activists alike, looking to better understand the concept of media reform and how it is being advanced around the world.

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"Uniquely informed activist-researcher evaluations of very current media and Internet reform initiatives, especially of the U.S. scenario, but spanning Canada, Mexico, Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Egypt, Israel, West African states, Argentina, Venezuela and Switzerland. A treasure trove for media change, including notable think-pieces, and lessons learned from both failures and achievements." -- -John D.H. Downing editor of Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media

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