Globalisation, imperialism & communication studies : from the MacBride Report to world summit on the "information society"

Preston, Paschal (author)

This paper is orientated towards a contextual reading of the MacBride Report. This suggests that the Report can be fruitfully read as "socially situated" (shaped by its essentially political rather than scholarly role) and it also implies attention to the many changes in the framework, structures and flows of international communication since 1980. The paper notes selective aspects of the concerns and orientations which informed the MacBride Report, particularly those addressing structural features of unequal resources and power in a post-colonial world which, in turn operate to shape communication inequalities. It finds such issues have been somewhat neglected or inadequately addressed, both in the communication studies field and in international policy discourses in more recent times. The paper describes certain recent developments in neighbouring fields which closely resonate witha spects of the earlier report - in particular, the growth or revival of interest in the concept of "imperialism." Whilst imperialism has become something of a neglected (if not quite taboo) term in communication studies inrecent times, it is now addressed more openly in other influential domains. This paper argues that re-engagement with this concept is now overdue and potentially fruitful for both the contemporary "academic" communications studies field and for the agenda of "policy" research issues.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2005
• Number of pages: Str. 31-46
• Numbering: Vol. 12, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-74670
• UDC: 659.3/.4
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24608861
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost = The public
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Title: "Manjkajoči členi" v komunikacijskih študijah: sistemsko učenje in pozabljanje v "informacijski družbi"

Abstract

Članek je usmerjen na kontekstualno branje MacBridovega poročila. To pomeni, da je mogoče poročilo plodno brati kot "družbeno situirano" (izoblikovano s svojo politično in ne akademsko vlogo), in hkrati usmerja pozornost na vrsto sprememb v okviru, strukturah in tokovih mednarodnega komuniciranja po letu 1980. Članek upošteva izbrane zanimanja in usmeritve, ki so oblikovali poročilo MacBridove komisije, zlasti tiste, ki zadevajo strukturne poteze neenakih resursov in moči v postkolonialnem svetu in ki vplivajo na ekonomske neenakosti. Ugotavlja, da so bile te vsebine do neke mere prezrte in neustrezno obravnavane tako v raziskovanju komuniciranja kot sodobnih razpravah o mednarodni politiki. Članek obravnava novejše spremembe na področjih, ki so tesno povezana z vidiki poročila - zlasti z oživljenim interesom za pojem imperializma. Medtem ko je imperializem postal zanemarjen (če ne prepovedan) izraz v komunikacijskih študijah, je postal bolj odkrito obravnavan na drugih vplivnih področjih. Članek dokazuje, da je vnovična zaposlitev s tem pojmom danes potrebna in potencialno plodna tako v sodobnih "akademskih" komunikacijskih študijah kot v agendi raziskovalnih vprašanj na področju politike.