Introduction: Critical Communication Studies and Theories of Communication and Democracy

Mashoed Bailie

Dwayne Winseck

Section I. Theories of Communication and Theories of Democracy

Political Economy, Communication and Policy

Vincent Mosco

Andrew Reddick

Critical Communication Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Life

Mashoed Bailie

The Communication Revolution: The Market and the Prospect for Democracy

Robert W. McChesney

Section II. Industrial Imperatives and the Possibility of Democratic Spheres of Communication

Communication Policy in the United States

Vanda Rideout

Vincent Mosco

Democratic Potentials Versus Instrumental Goals in Canadian Telecommunications

Dwayne Winseck

Restructuring the Spanish Television Industry

Richard Maxwell

New Communication Policies and Communication Technologies in the Carribbean

Aggrey Brown

Discourses of Democratic Communication and the Archaeology of Information Technology in South Korea

Sunny Yoon

Think Globally, Program Locally: Privatization of Indian National Television

Manjunath Pendakur

Jyotsna Kapur

The Evolution of China's Media Function During the 1980s: A New Model in a New Era?

Junhao Hong

Section III. Constituents of Civil Society: Media Freedom, New Technologies and the Role of the Church

Broadcasting in Transition: Media Freedom Between Political Freedom and Economic Pressures in Eastern and Central Europe

Wolfgang Kleinwaechter

Mexican NGO Computer Networking and Cross-Border Coalition Building

Howard H. Frederick

The Extended Pulpit: Church-Media Alliance in Kenyan Politics

Morompi Ole-Ronkei

Section IV. International Institutions: Creating Global Public Spheres or Transnational Markets

Is There a U.S. Foreign Policy in Telecommunications? Transatlantic Trade Policy as a Case Study

Andrew Calabrese

Wendy Redal

The Shifting Contexts of International Communication: Possibilities for a New World Information and Communication Order

Dwayne Winseck

The New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) in the Context of the Information Superhighway

Richard C. Vincent

World Communication: Business as Usual?

Cees J. Hamelink

Author Index

Subject Index