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.
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MIT Press
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
MIT Press
Stock Number
1949
Stock Number
9780262255820
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Title
Communication researchers and policy-making.
International Standard Book Number
026252340X
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communication policy-- United States-- History.
Communication-- Research-- United States-- History.
Communication-- Politique gouvernementale-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
Communication-- Recherche-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
Beleidsvorming.
Communicatiewetenschap.
Communication & Mass Media.
Communication policy.
Communication-- Research.
Journalism & Communications.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.