This article reviews a recent WTO trade dispute between Antigua and the United States concerning ... more This article reviews a recent WTO trade dispute between Antigua and the United States concerning the regulation of remote gambling. The case, United States–Measures Affecting the Cross-Border Supply of Gambling and Betting, raises important questions about the regulatory regimes that affect the cross-border traffic in media and cultural products and offers a detailed analysis of the principle that even in the context of an international trade agreement, states can restrict the flow of media in the interests of protecting public morals. The article situates this legal dispute in the context of gambling's recent growth as a business and social pastime.
Media and Cultural Theory, London: Routledge, 2006
... Council of Europe (2000) Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by the Committee of ... M... more ... Council of Europe (2000) Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by the Committee of ... Marsden, Christoper (ed.)(2000) Regulating the Global Information Society, London: Routledge ... division of cultural labour', in A. Moran (ed.) Film Policy: International, National and Regional ...
... The tone for the volume (I suggest reading the seven contributions first, and then turning to... more ... The tone for the volume (I suggest reading the seven contributions first, and then turning to Curtis Cook's introductory overview) is established at the outset by Alan Cairns's "The Charlottetown Accord: Multinational Canada v. Federalism." This is yet another classic from Cairns ...
... unexpected re-election of Pierre Bourque in 1998 on the heels of the rise and fall of Jean Do... more ... unexpected re-election of Pierre Bourque in 1998 on the heels of the rise and fall of Jean Dore, knowing more about the way political power gets organized in Montreal makes an important contribution to the study of municipal politics in Canada. CAROLINE ANDREW University ...
... Council of Europe (2000) Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by the Committee of ... M... more ... Council of Europe (2000) Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by the Committee of ... Marsden, Christoper (ed.)(2000) Regulating the Global Information Society, London: Routledge ... division of cultural labour', in A. Moran (ed.) Film Policy: International, National and Regional ...
Here speaks a voice from America. Every day at this time we will bring you the news of the war. T... more Here speaks a voice from America. Every day at this time we will bring you the news of the war. The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth.' First broadcast of the Voice of America. February 24, 1942 ± transmitted in German. From UNESCO to the Clash of Civilizations ± the Conundrum of Global Communication We live in a time of empire, a time when the military and economic prowess of one nation has no parallel in the course of human history. We live too in a time of globalization, when the density of networks crossing borders leaves no place unexposed to forces ± economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental ± that emanate from afar. This is also a time when the idea of human rights has taken its place among the principles that claim standing in the affairs between states and peoples. Not least, we live in a time of con¯ict and terror, when even the empire's capital is open to attack and the prospect of mass violence perpetrated by small bands of individuals or states is real. And all of this takes place in an age of near instantaneous communication across borders, a time of information and media abundance, a time when the prospect of a global conversation, directly and indirectly, by the second and by the hour, is palpable. It is incumbent on those of us who study communication to make better sense of the role it plays in global politics and, more important, to be responsible in the claims we make about the relationship between communication and con¯ict. For almost a generation, most especially in the ®elds of cultural studies and media studies, much of the scholarship in the discipline of communication has steered clear of this terrain: cynicism of all things political and a reluctance to use the language of values, morals, or ethics, have compromised our ability to speak responsibly and prescriptively about how we should do global communication, especially in a world full of fear. This is not an entirely new challenge. After the Second World War, the search for a lasting peace included a new set of international institutions designed to nurture tolerance and understanding through communication. Alongside the traditional military and political apparatuses ± foreign occupation, overseas bases, and alliances such as NATO ± a small parcel of land on the east side of Manhattan became home to the United Nations. At the same time, the United Nations Educational, Scienti®c and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was established to articulate, and give substance to, a broad set of values and priorities tied directly to global communication and world cultures. As we struggle to ®nd the language and principles that might help lay the foundation for global communication the preamble of UNESCO's constitution, adopted in November 1945, is worth quoting at length: That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed;
As a burgeoning field of inquiry, the study of what is commonly known as the "culture indust... more As a burgeoning field of inquiry, the study of what is commonly known as the "culture industry" has explored the increasing concentration and internationalization of capital, new forms of production and consumption, and new forms of state practice in the era of international cultural flows. With a few noteworthy exceptions, however, most of the discussion in Canada has taken place within the discourse of liberal analysis, with the fundamental question being: Should the policy apparatuses of the state be enlisted to defend the so-called "national culture" and reduce dependency on the inflow of foreign - mostly American - products?
Ted Madger is the director of communication studies and an associate professor of media ecology a... more Ted Madger is the director of communication studies and an associate professor of media ecology at New York University. Prior to that he was the director of the mass communication program at York University. He is the author of Canada's Hollywood: the Canadian State and Feature Films (1993) and numerous articles on Canada's cultural industries and the political economy of communication. E-mail: [email protected] I. INTRODUCTION In early April 1993, baseball enthusiasts across Canada were treated to an unusual sight. Larry Walker, the Montreal Expo's gold-glove, left-fielder graced the cover of U.S.-based Sports Illustrated magazine. While Walker himself may have enough star power to merit a cover shot, this was Sports Illustrated's baseball preview issue and the Expos are hardly a popular draw in most U.S. baseball markets. Walker was in one of those familiar baseball poses: right hand grasping the belt above his pinstripe pants, left arm raised to the shoulder, a Rawling's glove slung over the butt end of his Louisville slugger ... hockey stick. As it happens, Walker is Canadian: born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, about 35 kilometres (or 20 miles) outside of Vancouver. An aspiring goaltender for his hometown hockey team, Walker realized at the age of sixteen that he had no future as a professional hockey player. He turned to baseball and saw his first quality curveball playing * A list of acronyms used in this article is provided on page 51. for the Utica Blue Sox, an independent baseball team in upstate New York. The Expos signed him for $1,500. The same edition of Sports Illustrated contains a profile of Cito Gaston, the Toronto Blue Jay's manager, and an article on the possibility of an all-Canadian baseball World Series. The issue begins with a lengthy feature on American college basketball and ends with two profiles of European hockey players now playing for Canadian teams in the National Hockey League. One of the profiles bears the easily translatable title "Pas de Probleme." This was the first of six special issues to be published in 1993 by Time Canada, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Time Warner, the world's largest media conglomerate. These issues would bear the name Sports Illustrated Canada (SI Canada) and would replace the regular, weekly issues of Sports Illustrated that have a circulation in Canada of roughly 150,000. The April 5th issue contained about 30 percent Canadian content and scooped up 40 pages of Canadian advertising worth roughly $250,000. (1) It included full-page placements for Canadian Airlines, Sony Canada, Tourism Quebec, Black Velvet Canadian Whisky, and Volkswagen's new Golf ("In Canada, we briefly considered calling it the Hockey"). Although one of the profiles was written by a Canadian journalist, all of the editorial content was assembled at Time Inc.'s New York office and then transferred electronically via a Crosfield page fax system to a printing plant north of Toronto owned by Quebecor Printing, a Canadian company. Time Inc., the magazine publishing arm of Time Warner, leads all U.S.-based magazine publishers in terms of both circulation and revenue. In 1996 its top three publications, People, Sports Illustrated and Time, helped Time Inc. earn more than $500 million in operating income on more than $4 billion in revenue. (2) Magazines account for close to 25 percent of Time Warner's total revenue stream; they provide the company with a reliable source of income as it undertakes new acquistions and new media ventures. Indeed, while the magazine industry's share of total advertising in the U.S. has remained fairly constant over the past decade (at roughly 8 percent), Time Inc. is on something of a roll, reporting annual double-digit growth between 1991 and 1997. Some of Time Inc.'s recent success can be attributed to a general increase in advertising expenditures during the 1990s, but Time Inc., like other magazine publishers, has also aggressively pursued new revenue streams. …
This article reviews a recent WTO trade dispute between Antigua and the United States concerning ... more This article reviews a recent WTO trade dispute between Antigua and the United States concerning the regulation of remote gambling. The case, United States–Measures Affecting the Cross-Border Supply of Gambling and Betting, raises important questions about the regulatory regimes that affect the cross-border traffic in media and cultural products and offers a detailed analysis of the principle that even in the context of an international trade agreement, states can restrict the flow of media in the interests of protecting public morals. The article situates this legal dispute in the context of gambling's recent growth as a business and social pastime.
Media and Cultural Theory, London: Routledge, 2006
... Council of Europe (2000) Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by the Committee of ... M... more ... Council of Europe (2000) Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by the Committee of ... Marsden, Christoper (ed.)(2000) Regulating the Global Information Society, London: Routledge ... division of cultural labour', in A. Moran (ed.) Film Policy: International, National and Regional ...
... The tone for the volume (I suggest reading the seven contributions first, and then turning to... more ... The tone for the volume (I suggest reading the seven contributions first, and then turning to Curtis Cook's introductory overview) is established at the outset by Alan Cairns's "The Charlottetown Accord: Multinational Canada v. Federalism." This is yet another classic from Cairns ...
... unexpected re-election of Pierre Bourque in 1998 on the heels of the rise and fall of Jean Do... more ... unexpected re-election of Pierre Bourque in 1998 on the heels of the rise and fall of Jean Dore, knowing more about the way political power gets organized in Montreal makes an important contribution to the study of municipal politics in Canada. CAROLINE ANDREW University ...
... Council of Europe (2000) Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by the Committee of ... M... more ... Council of Europe (2000) Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by the Committee of ... Marsden, Christoper (ed.)(2000) Regulating the Global Information Society, London: Routledge ... division of cultural labour', in A. Moran (ed.) Film Policy: International, National and Regional ...
Here speaks a voice from America. Every day at this time we will bring you the news of the war. T... more Here speaks a voice from America. Every day at this time we will bring you the news of the war. The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth.' First broadcast of the Voice of America. February 24, 1942 ± transmitted in German. From UNESCO to the Clash of Civilizations ± the Conundrum of Global Communication We live in a time of empire, a time when the military and economic prowess of one nation has no parallel in the course of human history. We live too in a time of globalization, when the density of networks crossing borders leaves no place unexposed to forces ± economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental ± that emanate from afar. This is also a time when the idea of human rights has taken its place among the principles that claim standing in the affairs between states and peoples. Not least, we live in a time of con¯ict and terror, when even the empire's capital is open to attack and the prospect of mass violence perpetrated by small bands of individuals or states is real. And all of this takes place in an age of near instantaneous communication across borders, a time of information and media abundance, a time when the prospect of a global conversation, directly and indirectly, by the second and by the hour, is palpable. It is incumbent on those of us who study communication to make better sense of the role it plays in global politics and, more important, to be responsible in the claims we make about the relationship between communication and con¯ict. For almost a generation, most especially in the ®elds of cultural studies and media studies, much of the scholarship in the discipline of communication has steered clear of this terrain: cynicism of all things political and a reluctance to use the language of values, morals, or ethics, have compromised our ability to speak responsibly and prescriptively about how we should do global communication, especially in a world full of fear. This is not an entirely new challenge. After the Second World War, the search for a lasting peace included a new set of international institutions designed to nurture tolerance and understanding through communication. Alongside the traditional military and political apparatuses ± foreign occupation, overseas bases, and alliances such as NATO ± a small parcel of land on the east side of Manhattan became home to the United Nations. At the same time, the United Nations Educational, Scienti®c and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was established to articulate, and give substance to, a broad set of values and priorities tied directly to global communication and world cultures. As we struggle to ®nd the language and principles that might help lay the foundation for global communication the preamble of UNESCO's constitution, adopted in November 1945, is worth quoting at length: That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed;
As a burgeoning field of inquiry, the study of what is commonly known as the "culture indust... more As a burgeoning field of inquiry, the study of what is commonly known as the "culture industry" has explored the increasing concentration and internationalization of capital, new forms of production and consumption, and new forms of state practice in the era of international cultural flows. With a few noteworthy exceptions, however, most of the discussion in Canada has taken place within the discourse of liberal analysis, with the fundamental question being: Should the policy apparatuses of the state be enlisted to defend the so-called "national culture" and reduce dependency on the inflow of foreign - mostly American - products?
Ted Madger is the director of communication studies and an associate professor of media ecology a... more Ted Madger is the director of communication studies and an associate professor of media ecology at New York University. Prior to that he was the director of the mass communication program at York University. He is the author of Canada's Hollywood: the Canadian State and Feature Films (1993) and numerous articles on Canada's cultural industries and the political economy of communication. E-mail: [email protected] I. INTRODUCTION In early April 1993, baseball enthusiasts across Canada were treated to an unusual sight. Larry Walker, the Montreal Expo's gold-glove, left-fielder graced the cover of U.S.-based Sports Illustrated magazine. While Walker himself may have enough star power to merit a cover shot, this was Sports Illustrated's baseball preview issue and the Expos are hardly a popular draw in most U.S. baseball markets. Walker was in one of those familiar baseball poses: right hand grasping the belt above his pinstripe pants, left arm raised to the shoulder, a Rawling's glove slung over the butt end of his Louisville slugger ... hockey stick. As it happens, Walker is Canadian: born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, about 35 kilometres (or 20 miles) outside of Vancouver. An aspiring goaltender for his hometown hockey team, Walker realized at the age of sixteen that he had no future as a professional hockey player. He turned to baseball and saw his first quality curveball playing * A list of acronyms used in this article is provided on page 51. for the Utica Blue Sox, an independent baseball team in upstate New York. The Expos signed him for $1,500. The same edition of Sports Illustrated contains a profile of Cito Gaston, the Toronto Blue Jay's manager, and an article on the possibility of an all-Canadian baseball World Series. The issue begins with a lengthy feature on American college basketball and ends with two profiles of European hockey players now playing for Canadian teams in the National Hockey League. One of the profiles bears the easily translatable title "Pas de Probleme." This was the first of six special issues to be published in 1993 by Time Canada, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Time Warner, the world's largest media conglomerate. These issues would bear the name Sports Illustrated Canada (SI Canada) and would replace the regular, weekly issues of Sports Illustrated that have a circulation in Canada of roughly 150,000. The April 5th issue contained about 30 percent Canadian content and scooped up 40 pages of Canadian advertising worth roughly $250,000. (1) It included full-page placements for Canadian Airlines, Sony Canada, Tourism Quebec, Black Velvet Canadian Whisky, and Volkswagen's new Golf ("In Canada, we briefly considered calling it the Hockey"). Although one of the profiles was written by a Canadian journalist, all of the editorial content was assembled at Time Inc.'s New York office and then transferred electronically via a Crosfield page fax system to a printing plant north of Toronto owned by Quebecor Printing, a Canadian company. Time Inc., the magazine publishing arm of Time Warner, leads all U.S.-based magazine publishers in terms of both circulation and revenue. In 1996 its top three publications, People, Sports Illustrated and Time, helped Time Inc. earn more than $500 million in operating income on more than $4 billion in revenue. (2) Magazines account for close to 25 percent of Time Warner's total revenue stream; they provide the company with a reliable source of income as it undertakes new acquistions and new media ventures. Indeed, while the magazine industry's share of total advertising in the U.S. has remained fairly constant over the past decade (at roughly 8 percent), Time Inc. is on something of a roll, reporting annual double-digit growth between 1991 and 1997. Some of Time Inc.'s recent success can be attributed to a general increase in advertising expenditures during the 1990s, but Time Inc., like other magazine publishers, has also aggressively pursued new revenue streams. …
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