Counter-mythologising 'media freedom': including the audience in media freedom discourses and a new normative position for the global south
| العنوان: | Counter-mythologising 'media freedom': including the audience in media freedom discourses and a new normative position for the global south |
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| المؤلفون: | Julie Reid |
| المصدر: | Communicatio. 43:74-92 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | business.industry, Freedom of the press, Communication, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, Perspective (graphical), Media studies, 050801 communication & media studies, Public relations, Independence, Democracy, Politics, 0508 media and communications, State (polity), Political science, 0502 economics and business, Normative, Position (finance), 050211 marketing, business, media_common |
| الوصف: | This article argues for a conscious counter-mythologisation of the popularly utilised term “media freedom” within media political and policy discourses. It further argues for a diversion from understanding this term to refer exclusively to the sphere of media production involving the ability or freedoms of media producers to do their work without hindrances to their independence – whether these stem from state actors, media owners or other external forces. The article contends that a free media should theoretically, and in addition, be considered from the perspective of the audience(s) and its respective prospects of access and accessibility to the entirety of the media landscape. Since challenges of meaningful access and accessibility to media communications persist in much of the Global South, the article concludes by suggesting a newly theorised normative approach to the role of the media in a democracy, which is in keeping with socio-political conditions in historically “Othered” regions of th... |
| تدمد: | 1753-5379 0250-0167 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::9089133b84b4d3a1b7a738273422f067 https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2017.1337648 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........9089133b84b4d3a1b7a738273422f067 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
PDF full text from Publisher | تدمد: | 17535379 02500167 |
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