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* Natascha JUST & Manuel PUPPIS (Eds) Trends in Communication Policy Research: New Theories, Methods & Subjects Intellect Books - European Communication Research and Education Association, 2012, 426 pages
This edited set of readings came from a conference on the topic in Zurich. The papers cover a broad context: in the theory and methodology of communications policy 1. It is a Euro-centric view on the issues, and by their own admission, omissions are inevitable. That said, the editors have done a decent job of selecting papers which discuss "new theories and methodologies." The phrase is in quotes, because much of the discussion is to reapply old theories/methodologies to policy issues. This is to be welcome, since the search for a satisfactory policy framework in communications has not been successful despite decades of effort in this direction (albeit it the issues are slippery, and hard to pin down with dynamic, rapidly changing technologies and market structures).
On the consumer side, we have...