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Publication details [#49884]

Pickard, Victor W. 2007. Neoliberal Visions and Revisions in Global Communications Policy From NWICO to WSIS. Journal of Communication Inquiry 31 (2) : 118–139.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | economics | information processing | international context | political discussion

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has to be historicized in relation to the earlier New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO), and theorized in terms linked to neoliberalism, the major political economic system shaping global relations today.