Communication researchers and policy-making

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The work Communication researchers and policy-making represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Communication researchers and policy-making

Statement of responsibility

edited by Sandra Braman

Contributor

• Braman, Sandra

Subject

• Communication -- Research -- United States -- History
• Communication policy -- United States -- History

Language

eng

Summary

As the global information infrastructure evolves, the field of communication has the opportunity to renew itself while addressing the urgent policy need for new ways of thinking and new data to think about. Communication Researchers and Policy-making examines diverse relationships between the communication research and policy communities over more than a century and the issues that arise out of those interactions. The book provides primary material in the form of reports on such relationships spanning time periods, subject matter, policy issues, decision-making venues, and governments. The essays range from historical pieces on the importance of communication research since the beginning of systematic policy analysis and on the various roles that researchers can play to contemporary analyses of contributions of research to policy debates over network design and access, media violence, and advertising fraud. Substantial interstitial essays by the editor explore the impact of the policy context on communication theories and research practices, relationships between researchers and their institutional homes, the role of communication researchers as public intellectuals, and ways to maximize the impact of communication research on policy-making during this period of infrastructural transformation. The book includes an extensive bibliography

Member of

• MIT Press sourcebooks
• Online access with purchase: IEEE/IET Electronic Library (MIT)

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

302.2/0973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

P91.5.U5

LC item number

C66 2003eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The MIT Press sourcebooks