Synopsis
This book brings together international experts in communication policy research to tackle ongoing changes and challenges. It gives insights into new theories, methods and subjects and thereby provides important contributions to pressing communication policy issues. Trends in Communication Policy Research is an ideal source of information for scholars, professionals, students and anyone interested in communication policy and regulation.
About the Author
Natascha Just is a senior research and teaching associate at the University of Zurich's Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ). She is also a Fellow of the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF). She has a Ph.D. in communication science from the University of Vienna (summa cum laude). She was the recipient of a three-year Hertha Firnberg Grant from the Austrian National Science Fund (2005-2008), a visiting researcher at Stanford Law School (2007), a post-doctoral fellow at the ARNIC, Annenberg School for Communication, USC, Los Angeles (2004-2005); and a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1998-2004). Her current research centres on the transformation of statehood in the convergent communications sector with a special emphasis on changing governance structures. Her research has been published in journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Telecommunications Policy, Communications & Strategies, and Knowledge, Technology & Policy.
Manuel Puppis is a senior research and teaching associate at the University of Zurich's Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ). Additionally, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the NCCR 'Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century.' He has a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the University of Zurich. Currently he is a vice-chair of the ECREA's CLP Section and a co-chair of the Netzwerk Medienstrukturen. Puppis was a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (spring 2011) and at the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research at the University of Hamburg (spring 2012). His work has been published in journals such as the European Journal of Communication; Communication, Culture & Critique; and the International Communication Gazette. His research interests include media policy, media regulation and media governance, media systems in a comparative perspective, political communication and organization theory.
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