Detailed Outline of Chapter 10

Politics of Global Communication

1. The Three Substantive Domains

a. The fields: telecommunication intellectual property rights, and mass media

b. Telecommunication issues: accessibility, allocation, and confidentiality

c. Intellectual property rights issues: more urgency because of new technologies and large scale copying of copyrighted materials

d. Mass media issues: tension between harmful content and free speech.

2. The Beginnings

a. Telecommunication
- Guaranteed freedom of transit within territory of the union and the standardization of charges to be collected by each country
- The rise of a multilateral agreement

b. Intellectual Property Rights
- Multilateral treaty-
-The development of basic principles to ensure remuneration for an author by protecting the work from reproduction

c. Mass Media
- The convention for facilitating the international circulation of films
- Negative social impact of the mass media

d. The New Multilateral Institutions
- The creation of the UN and its specialized agencies

e. Specialized Agencies
- Multilateral policy: ITU, UPU, UNESCO, WIPO,ILO, WHO, FAO, ICA, etc.

f. The Nongovernmental Organization
- An important contribution was offered by a rapidly growing group international nongovernmental organizations

g. Shifts in Global Communication Politics
- The international governance system for communication
- Global communication is defined by trade and market standards, moving from a political discourse to an economic trade discourse.
- The more and mores powerful private players
- Transnational corporations

h. The World Trade Organization
- National treatment of foreign competitors in national markets

3. Current Practices

a. Telecommunication
- Telecommunication infrastructures are essential to development
- The installation and upgrading of infrastructures is expensive
- Private funding is needed
- To attract private funding, countries will have to liberalize their telecommunication markets and adopt pro-competition regulatory measures

b. The WTO Telecommunication Treaty
- Public telecommunications transport service
- Public telecommunication transport network

c. Changing The Account Rate Settlement System.

d. The Domain Of Intellectual Property Rights
- Current intellectual property rights
- The use of technologies strengthens the monopoly control owners

e. The Domain Of Mass Media
- Problem of oligopolies and cartels
- Preference for anti-cartle legislation clashes with free market agenda
- liberal claims vs. protectionism

4. Lessons From A Key Project In The Domain Of Global Mass Media Politics

The global information infrastructure bring them improvements in lifestyle, comfort, well-being

5. Global Communication Politics Today

a. Access
b. Knowledge
c. Global Advertising
d. Privacy
e. Intellectual Property Rights
f. Trade In Cultureg. Concentration
h. The Commons
i. Civil Advocacy
j. The World Summit On The Information Society