Communication Researchers and Policy-making

MIT Press

As the global information infrastructure evolves, the field of
communication has the opportunity to renew itself while addressing the urgent policy
need for new ways of thinking and new data to think about. Communication Researchers
and Policy-making examines diverse relationships between the communication research
and policy communities over more than a century and the issues that arise out of
those interactions. The book provides primary material in the form of reports on
such relationships spanning time periods, subject matter, policy issues,
decision-making venues, and governments.The essays range from historical pieces on
the importance of communication research since the beginning of systematic policy
analysis and on the various roles that researchers can play to contemporary analyses
of contributions of research to policy debates over network design and access, media
violence, and advertising fraud. Substantial interstitial essays by the editor
explore the impact of the policy context on communication theories and research
practices, relationships between researchers and their institutional homes, the role
of communication researchers as public intellectuals, and ways to maximize the
impact of communication research on policy-making during this period of
infrastructural transformation. The book includes an extensive
bibliography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braman, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie

Über Autor(innen)

Braman, Sandra
Sandra Braman is Professor in the Department of Communication, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the editor of Communication Researchers and
Policy-Making (MIT Press, 2003).