Robin Mansell
Biographic Data
| ID | 390000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Mansell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mansell |
| SIGNATURE | MANSELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3950-3468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The past, present and future of research on communication policy and technology
This conversation is an account of the panel discussions held during the Communication Policy and Technology 50th Anniversay pre-conference, co-organised by the Communication, Policy and Technology (CPT) Section and the Global Media Policy (GMP) Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and the Department of Communications & New Media and the CivicTech Lab at the National University of Singapore …
Handbook of Media and Communication Governance
The chapter offers a framework for the analysis of media regulation in non-democratic systems. It considers media and Internet regulation as a form of autocratic adaptability in the context of continuous technological innovation. Regulation seeks to protect the legitimacy of autocratic leaders and their regimes in a rapidly changing environment. Accordingly, the regulation should be seen in the context of the trajectory of the development of medi…
Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research
This edited collection highlights how the IAMCR and its members shaped the field of media and communications research.
Digital Technology Innovation
This paper examines myths envisaging a “balancing” of commercial, state and citizen interests through a market-led adjustment process underpinned by regulatory interventions in digital technology markets. It considers how these myths operate to downplay or conceal a persistent commitment to digital innovation that privileges the interests of technology companies and states. The key assumptions of the prevailing imaginary of technology innovation—…
Looking for Alicia
Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Tecnologias de comunicação transformadoras
O trabalho aborda as causas e consequências das transformações na mídia e nas tecnologias de comunicação, discutindo se os grandes atores globais responsáveis por elas devem prestar contas pelo modo como o ambiente digitalmente mediado está se alterando. Tecnologias de comunicação mais antigas também trouxeram à tona discussões sobre a accountability. No entanto, hoje surgem novas questões sobre o tema, em relação à inteligência artificial, algor…
The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society
The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society offers critical assessments of theoretical and applied research on digitally-mediated communication, a central area of study in the 21st century. Unique for its emphasis on digital media and communication and for its use of business and management perspectives, in addition to cultural, developmental, political and sociological perspectives Entries are written by scholars and some…
Introduction
This Development in Practice special issue responds to the need for a radical rethinking of the theory, practice, and pedagogy of communication for development. This field may be designated as comm
Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis
Recognizing ‘ourselves’ in media and communications research
In this article, I argue that interdisciplinarity in the media and communication field encourages a focus on why the media and communication matter. It helps to draw scholarly attention to the need for theory development and critical analysis of the material and symbolic facets of mediated communication. Interdisciplinarity offers a pathway for resisting the hegemony of disciplinary projects and this approach encourages reflexive engagement among…
International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society
Futures of knowledge societies – destabilization in whose interest
This paper asks whether destabilizations associated with the global financial crisis and rapid innovation in digital technologies may be creating possibilities for a rebalancing of commercial market and other values associated with equality and fairness in policy interventions aimed at building knowledge societies. An analysis of high-level policy speeches and a selection of digital technology projects provides a basis for reflections on this que…
Open Collaboration for Social Problem Solving
Este trabalho examina o potencial para colaboração entre profissionais da ciência formal e grupos frouxamente conectados online que empregam crowdsourcing para gerar recursos de informação digital. Quais são as diferenças entre os modos preferidos de governar a criação do conhecimento de cientistas e de outros grupos online? Faz-se uma distinção entre modos de governança constituídos e adaptativos, e as similaridades e diferenças entre o entendim…
Open Collaboration for Social Problem Solving
Este trabalho examina o potencial para colaborao entre profissionais da cincia formal e grupos frouxamente conectados online que empregam crowdsourcing para gerar recursos de informao digital. Quais so as diferenas entre os modos preferidos de governar a criao do conhecimento de cientistas e de outros grupos online? Faz-se uma distino entre modos de governana constitudos e adaptativos, e as similaridades e diferenas entre o entendimento dos dois …
The governance of communication networks
Governance arrangements have multiple implications for the norms and practices that influence citizen access to networks, opportunities for freedom of expression, and privacy. This article sets out a research agenda aimed at examining new forms of collective action in practice with a particular focus on how choices are limited by different norms concerning authority and the way these norms are institutionalized in the case of communication networ…
Empowerment and/or Disempowerment
This article examines prevailing institutional norms that are visible in international policy discourse concerning the goals of investing in digital technologies. An analysis of policy discourse associated with the World Summit on the Information Society shows how, despite the use of terms such as “open” and “participatory,” the practice of information and communication technology project implementation displays evidence of failures to empower lo…
Employing digital crowdsourced information resources
This paper examines the ways loosely connected online groups and formal science professionals are responding to the potential for collaboration using digital technology platforms and crowdsourcing as a means of generating data in the digital information commons. The preferred approaches of each of these groups to managing information production, circulation and application are examined in the light of the increasingly vast amounts of data that ar…
Employing digital crowdsourced information resources
This paper examines the ways loosely connected online groups and formal science professionals are responding to the potential for collaboration using digital technology platforms and crowdsourcing as a means of generating data in the digital information commons. The preferred approaches of each of these groups to managing information production, circulation and application are examined in the light of the increasingly vast amounts of data that ar…
Copyright infringement online
The proportionality of the UK Digital Economy Act 2010 which aims to curtail illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing is examined in this paper in the light of changes in online norms and culture. Based on an analysis of recent studies and a critical reflection on the nature of changes in digital media production and file-sharing behaviour, we conclude that the Digital Economy Act introduces disproportionate social costs for UK Internet users, with unce…
Political Economy, Power and New Media
This article suggests that it is timely to revitalise studies in the tradition of the political economy of media and communications in order to develop a critical and comprehensive analysis of the social and economic dynamics of the production and consumption of new media. Specifically, a coupling of research on mediated communication and on highly situated communities of practice with some strands of research in political economy could shed new …
From Digital Divides to Digital Entitlements in Knowledge Societies
This paper critically examines current constructions of the causes, consequences and appropriate actions to reduce the so-called 'digital divide'. Drawing upon discussions that have occurred in a number of intergovernmental forums, the analysis illustrates the limitations of policy debates that focus primarily on issues of access, affordability and capabilities and skills for employability in industry. An alternative framework for assessing the u…
New visions, old practices
This paper examines corporate interests in the evolution of the Internet, arguing that the Internet is not a neutral configuration of technologies. In reviewing the state's role in regulating the Internet, the paradoxical alliance between the neoliberal economic and political agenda and advocacy of an open unregulated Internet is highlighted. Evidence of neoliberal strategies in telecommunication, broadcasting and the Internet is considered along…
New Media Competition and Access
It is often argued that constraints on access to new information and communication environments will disappear as services decline in price and as customers and producers engage in new market relationships. Following this line of argument, the relative scarcity of communication and information access opportunities of the past should be dispelled. The aim of this article is to illustrate the faults in this vision as applied to Internet and new med…
Empowerment and/or Disempowerment
This article examines prevailing institutional norms that are visible in international policy discourse concerning the goals of investing in digital technologies. An analysis of policy discourse associated with the World Summit on the Information Society shows how, despite the use of terms such as “open” and “participatory,” the practice of information and communication technology project implementation displays evidence of failures to empower lo…
Crossing Boundaries
It is widely acknowledged that today’s news media are changing radically. New forms of what is coming to be known as “networked journalism” are increasingly visible. These new forms of journalism raise many ethical issues not the least because, as we argue in this paper, they encourage new forms of boundary crossing on a scale not possible until recently. We suggest that these developments contain the seeds for the possibility to better understan…
Copyright infringement online
The proportionality of the UK Digital Economy Act 2010 which aims to curtail illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing is examined in this paper in the light of changes in online norms and culture. Based on an analysis of recent studies and a critical reflection on the nature of changes in digital media production and file-sharing behaviour, we conclude that the Digital Economy Act introduces disproportionate social costs for UK Internet users, with unce…
Utilities in the EC
The past, present and future of research on communication policy and technology
This conversation is an account of the panel discussions held during the Communication Policy and Technology 50th Anniversay pre-conference, co-organised by the Communication, Policy and Technology (CPT) Section and the Global Media Policy (GMP) Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and the Department of Communications & New Media and the CivicTech Lab at the National University of Singapore …
Employing digital crowdsourced information resources
This paper examines the ways loosely connected online groups and formal science professionals are responding to the potential for collaboration using digital technology platforms and crowdsourcing as a means of generating data in the digital information commons. The preferred approaches of each of these groups to managing information production, circulation and application are examined in the light of the increasingly vast amounts of data that ar…
The problem of internationalizing media and communication research
IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in July 2007. I write in my personal capacity as President of IAMCR, 2004-2008
Information sector policy analysis
Telecommunications and Productivity
This collection includes papers by management consultants, academics, and corporate and government representatives that explore a range of economic, political, and social factors that affect the use of new telecommunications systems. The focus is on the impact of, and opportunities presented by, innovative telecommunications facilities and services in government, business and consumer sectors. The breadth of issues which are covered is ambitious.…
The "New Dominant Paradigm" in Communication
The field of 'communication and development' research within the "dominant paradigm" has been subjected to criticism for several decades. It has been suggested that this criticism has led to significant transformations in theoretical perspective and methodological approach. The implication has been that research conducted within this tradition is finally on the road to making substantial contributions to the study of 'communication problems' as t…
The Debate over Critical vs. Administrative Research
William H. Melody, Robin E. Mansell; The Debate over Critical vs. Administrative Research: Circularity or Challenge, Journal of Communication, Volume 33, I
Is Policy Research an Irrelevant Exercise
Journal Article Is Policy Research an Irrelevant Exercise?: The Case of Canadian DBS Planning Get access Robin E. Mansell Robin E. Mansell 1Research Associate with William H. Melody & Associates and the Transnational Research Institute for Policy, Vancouver, British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 1985, Pages 154–166, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.146…
Contradictions in national communication/information policies
Canadian Broadcasting
This volume contains papers by 20 participants in the 'Challenge for Change Symposium' sponsored by the University of Alberta and the ACCESS network in Alberta. Members of the Federal Task Force on Broadcasting Policy also participated in sessions on four major issues: the application of emerging technologies to meet national and regional needs; possibilities for restructuring regulatory and other incentives within the broadcast system; changes i…
Information sector policy analysis
European Integration and Telecommunications
Complexity characterises technical and institutional restructuring in telecommunications. This makes it difficult to determine the social and economic implications of transformations in an industry that has outgrown its monopolistic origins. This paper focuses on the external forces influencing the European Community's efforts to fashion a more open, integrated and competitive telecommunication environment. Attention is given to organisational, r…
Collaboration, competition and the EC
The west looks east
The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which the western ‘liberalisation model’ is reflected in agreements among Western telecommunication firms and their Eastern partners. The paper also considers the implications of the adoption of this model for the restructuring of telecommunication in the Eastern economies
Utilities in the EC
Legal aspects of implementing international telecommunication links
European Telecommunication, Multinational Enterprises, and the Implication of “Globalization”
(1993). European Telecommunication, Multinational Enterprises, and the Implication of “Globalization”. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 23, Have We Reached the Information Age Yet?: The Political Economy of Information Standards, pp. 83-104
Information and Communication Technology Policy Research in the United Kingdom
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are altering the ways in which time and distance affect productive activities. Such innovative activity is affected by historical factors, the capacity of individuals and institutions to adapt and act, and by decisions of technology producers, users, and government policy-makers. This paper highlights the directions and perspectives in social science research in the United Kingdom that have emerge…
Communication By Design
The information revolution has been described as 'the biggest technological juggernaut that ever rolled' and every day we hear more about the Global Information Infrastructure. The information and communications technologies (ICTs) of the 1990s enable the electronic production and consumption of increasingly vast quantities of information. They affect business, consumer, education and leisure activity. The consequences of these changes are unpred…
Communication by Design
Les nouveaux marchés de la communication et la réglementation
In this paper the author questions the suitability of existing regulatory structures with regard to the world- wide development of information highways. To what extent can resources be mobilized for the generalized development of these networks? He analyses the opposing forces aimed at the reduction of regulations and their simultaneous standardization, and proposes an evolutionary strategic model of the new communication markets as a framework f…
New Media Competition and Access
It is often argued that constraints on access to new information and communication environments will disappear as services decline in price and as customers and producers engage in new market relationships. Following this line of argument, the relative scarcity of communication and information access opportunities of the past should be dispelled. The aim of this article is to illustrate the faults in this vision as applied to Internet and new med…
Inside the Communication Revolution
The nature and significance of emerging patterns of social and technical interaction as digital technologies become more pervasive in the knowledge economy are the focus of this book.
From Digital Divides to Digital Entitlements in Knowledge Societies
This paper critically examines current constructions of the causes, consequences and appropriate actions to reduce the so-called 'digital divide'. Drawing upon discussions that have occurred in a number of intergovernmental forums, the analysis illustrates the limitations of policy debates that focus primarily on issues of access, affordability and capabilities and skills for employability in industry. An alternative framework for assessing the u…
Political Economy, Power and New Media
This article suggests that it is timely to revitalise studies in the tradition of the political economy of media and communications in order to develop a critical and comprehensive analysis of the social and economic dynamics of the production and consumption of new media. Specifically, a coupling of research on mediated communication and on highly situated communities of practice with some strands of research in political economy could shed new …
E-commerce for Developing Countries
Development agencies have emphasised the potential of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce to reduce barriers to entry to global markets for small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. E-marketplaces would allow firms to buy and sell online, reaching customers across the world at low cost. A study of B2B e-marketplaces and the use of the internet by developing country firms shows a different picture. There is little evidence that…
Great Media and Communication Debates
Many Voices, One World was a groundbreaking report and became a milestone in the discussions that had been ongoing since the 1970s. We examine its insights in the light of debates leading up and subsequent to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva in 2003 and Tunis in 2005. We argue that many of the issues and dilemmas highlighted by the MacBride Report’s authors exist today. The record of WSIS participants in tackling these…
The problem of internationalizing media and communication research
IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in July 2007. I write in my personal capacity as President of IAMCR, 2004-2008
Crossing Boundaries
It is widely acknowledged that today’s news media are changing radically. New forms of what is coming to be known as “networked journalism” are increasingly visible. These new forms of journalism raise many ethical issues not the least because, as we argue in this paper, they encourage new forms of boundary crossing on a scale not possible until recently. We suggest that these developments contain the seeds for the possibility to better understan…
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