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Neoliberal Visions and Revisions in Global Communications Policy From NWICO to WSIS

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The author proposes that any account seeking to contextualize crucial policy debates connected to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) must engage with two necessary projects. First, it must historicize WSIS in relation to an earlier international forum similarly focused on global communications policy, the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). Second, it must theorize WSIS in terms related to neoliberalism, the dominant political economic system defining global relations today. This analysis brings into focus both continuities and changes in global communications policy during the formative period of the past three decades.

Key Words: New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) • World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) • Internet governance • neoliberalism • global communication • international communication • media history • Internet policy

Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 2, 118-139 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0196859906298162


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