Richard Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Film Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5449-8535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reorienting approaches to maritime boundary disputes: A case for hydro-diplomacy
The legal landscape for deep-sea mining in the Area: A primer for practitioners
A general overview of the legal regime for managing deep-sea mineral resources of the seafloor in areas beyond national jurisdiction (‘the Area’) is presented with a focus on the protection of the marine environment. This primer aims to provide the background to and translate complex legal principles of international law relevant to activities related to deep-sea mining in the Area for those who do not have a background in legal studies. An intro…
City infrastructure ontologies
Sustainable urban infrastructure planning and maintenance require an integrated approach that considers various infrastructure assets (e.g., the ground, roads, and buried pipes) and their inter-linkages as a holistic system. To facilitate the usage of this integrated approach, we propose a model of city infrastructure assets and their interdependencies, providing details on how asset properties and processes affect each other. This model is repre…
Sources and the Legitimate Authority of International Law: A Challenge to the ‘Standard View’?
This chapter is concerned with international law’s claim to legitimate authority and the role played by the doctrine of sources in meeting this claim. It argues that the kind of formal assessment of legality inherent in sources doctrine expresses a specific view of the legitimate authority of international law. Here, the chapter tries to defuse two misleading lines of attack: one based on the vagaries of the processes of customary law formation a…
Hidden Innovation: Policy, Industry and the Creative Sector
The Reith Mission: Global Telecommunications and The Decline of The British Empire
In 1945, the established British imperial communications system, based on the Cable and Wireless network, was re-structured. The imperial partners agreed to break up the hitherto integrated system and re-establish it as an interconnecting network of networks based on separate, nationalised, entities. Co-ordination began to shift from a consensual system to one based on prices and the hitherto largely self-contained system began to interconnect wi…
Digital turmoil for South African TV
South Africa is scheduled to migrate all of its terrestrial television signals from analogue to digital by June 2015. In 2007, the South African Department of Communications (DoC) called for the switchover to digital terrestrial television (DTT), using the Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) transmission standard, to begin in November 2008 and be complete just three years later, with an analogue switch-off on 1 November 2011. This ambi…
Content online and the end of public media? The UK, a canary in the coal mine
Online delivery of content has changed media advertising markets, undermining the business model which has underpinned provision of ‘public media’. Three business models have sustained mass media: direct payment for content, payment for advertising and state subsidy, and the author argues, contrary to others’ claims, that advertising finance has made possible production and provision of high-quality, pluralistic and affordable public media. In co…
Honoring the Form: Zen Moves in Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale
In Being and Race Charles Johnson compares a writer working with traditional forms to a martial artist who “honors the form” of his predecessors. In his 1982 novel Oxherding Tale Johnson honors the form of a number of traditional fictional genres, including the slave narrative, the picaresque novel, the philosophical novel of ideas, and Zen texts such as koans, sutras, and the twelfth-century graphic narrative, the “Oxherding Pictures.” Calling h…
Constitutionalism as Liberal-Juridical Consciousness: Echoes from International Law's Past
The future of international law is uncertain. The long-hoped-for revitalization of international law and its institutional structures following the end of the Cold War now seems at risk from an increasing deformalization of, and neo-liberal disregard for, international law. Meanwhile European international lawyers are responding by reasserting a Kantian project for a global constitution under an international rule of law. In this article I attemp…
Hierarchy to homeostasis? Hierarchy, markets and networks in UK media and communications governance
The author considers propositions that market and network governance are supplanting hierarchical governance in contemporary UK media and communications, Liberalisation of media and communication markets, adoption of new public management in publicly owned bodies, “outsourcing” of regulation from statutory to self-regulatory bodies and “fourth way” co-ordination of Internet institutions suggest that the importance of markets and networks as poten…
Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics
Journal Article Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics Get access Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics. Edited by Thorson John E. Britton Sarah Colby Bonnie G.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. xii + 291 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.) Richard Collins Richard Collins University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Trilateralism, legitimacy and the Working Group on Internet Governance
This discussion paper discusses the WSIS/WGIG processes and more specifically the outcomes of those processes. The two main outcomes of the WSIS/WGIG, the so-called 'Château de Bossey' document from the WGIG and the Tunis agenda for the information society, reflected the stalemate between proponents of the status quo and those who advocated bringing Internet governance (or at least control of the DNS) under the aegis of the ITU. The paper also di…
Compulsory loyalty? Accountability, citizenship and the BBC
This paper situates contemporary debates about the governance and accountability of public service broadcasting in the context of debates in the UK about renewal of the BBC’s Charter. It draws on Warnock’s (1974) notion of accountability as provision of information and the ability to exercise sanctions and on Hirschman’s (1970) and Thompson’s (2003) distinctions between exit, voice and loyalty and hierarchical, market and network forms of governa…
In Memory of Jean-Pierre Desaulniers
This article is a personal response to the death of Jean-Pierre Desaulniers, a friend and important Canadian communication scholar, in which his work is reviewed
Internet governance in the UK
Discussion of internet governance has been shaped by three myths: that the market can decide, that the Internet is different to 'legacy' media and that national governance is unimportant. The author challenges these three myths through an examination of internet governance in the UK in 2003/4 and argues that the internet is a layered, not vertically integrated, medium of communication, that three modes of governance prevail hierarchy, markets and…
Networks, Markets and Hierarchies: Governance and Regulation of the UK Internet
Internet governance is the development and application by Governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet. –Working Group on Internet Governance [WGIG], 2005. THE Internet is now indispensable. About 24 m UK households are connected1 and, of these homes, more now have broadband access than h…
Television: Policy and Culture
In memoriam: Jean-Pierre Desaulniers (1946-2005)
Three myths of internet governance considered in the context of the UK1
Discussion of Internet governance has been shaped by three myths; that the market can decide, that the Internet is different to ‘legacy’ media, and that national governance is unimportant. This paper challenges these three myths through an examination of Internet governance in the UK in 2003/4 and argues that the Internet is a layered, not vertically integrated, medium of communication, that three modes of governance prevail—hierarchy, markets an…
Enter the Grecian Horse? Regulation of Foreign Ownership of the Media in the UK
This article reviews national media ownership regulation in the UK. It places the UK's regime in an international context, showing it to be less onerous than some comparable countries and more onerous than others, and in a historical context, examining the changing configuration of UK media ownership and regulation. It assesses the economic and cultural effects of UK national media ownership regulation and identifies differences in and between so…
The BBC—Too Big, Too Small or Just Right
Public Service Broadcasting Beyond 2000: Is There a Future for Public Service Broadcasting
This article focuses on the media coverage of a strike at the Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, between 1994 and 1996. A variety of central issues are examined, including: monopoly ownership of the New Brunswick media by the Irving Group of Companies, the ideological presentation of strikes in general, and the representation of changing labour relations in a postindustrial, globally oriented society. The four New Brunswick English…
Back to the future
The Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas: A history of partnership
The decision in 1987 by the pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. to provide Mectizan (ivermectin) free of charge to river blindness control programs has challenged the international public health community to find effective ways to distribute the drug to rural populations most affected by onchocerciasis. In the Americas, PAHO responded to that challenge by calling for the elimination of all morbidity from onchocerciasis from the Region by the year 200…
Television: Policy and Culture
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Unity in Diversity? The European Single Market in Broadcasting and the Audiovisual, 1982–92
The language of advantage: Satellite television in Western Europe
Politics and the Mass Media
Trading in Culture: The Role of Language
This chapter considers why the imperatives of cultural development and economy are often perceived to be contradictory; the fundamental ambiguity of meaning of the category “culture"; the conflict between socially established understandings of the category “culture” and the patterns of cultural practice created by contemporary circumstances (notably the industrialization/popularization of culture and globalization of economic activity). It examin…
Constitutionalism as Liberal-Juridical Consciousness: Echoes from International Law's Past
The future of international law is uncertain. The long-hoped-for revitalization of international law and its institutional structures following the end of the Cold War now seems at risk from an increasing deformalization of, and neo-liberal disregard for, international law. Meanwhile European international lawyers are responding by reasserting a Kantian project for a global constitution under an international rule of law. In this article I attemp…
Hierarchy to homeostasis? Hierarchy, markets and networks in UK media and communications governance
The author considers propositions that market and network governance are supplanting hierarchical governance in contemporary UK media and communications, Liberalisation of media and communication markets, adoption of new public management in publicly owned bodies, “outsourcing” of regulation from statutory to self-regulatory bodies and “fourth way” co-ordination of Internet institutions suggest that the importance of markets and networks as poten…
Wall-To-Wall ‘Dallas’? The US-UK Trade in Television
Journal Article Wall-To-Wall ‘Dallas’? The US-UK Trade in Television Get access Richard Collins Richard Collins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 27, Issue 3-4, May-August 1986, Pages 66–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.3-4.66 Published: 01 May 1986
Content online and the end of public media? The UK, a canary in the coal mine
Online delivery of content has changed media advertising markets, undermining the business model which has underpinned provision of ‘public media’. Three business models have sustained mass media: direct payment for content, payment for advertising and state subsidy, and the author argues, contrary to others’ claims, that advertising finance has made possible production and provision of high-quality, pluralistic and affordable public media. In co…
Internet governance in the UK
Discussion of internet governance has been shaped by three myths: that the market can decide, that the Internet is different to 'legacy' media and that national governance is unimportant. The author challenges these three myths through an examination of internet governance in the UK in 2003/4 and argues that the internet is a layered, not vertically integrated, medium of communication, that three modes of governance prevail hierarchy, markets and…
Public Service and the Media Economy: European Trends in the Late 1990s
Broadcasting and telecommunications have undergone a very rapid transformation from provision by public sector monopolies to provision by many private (and public sector) firms. This transformation has been stimulated by measures adopted by the European Union which, particularly in the case of television, have led to significant unanticipated consequences - notably increased consumption of non-European programming. Public service broadcasters hav…
The Reith Mission: Global Telecommunications and The Decline of The British Empire
In 1945, the established British imperial communications system, based on the Cable and Wireless network, was re-structured. The imperial partners agreed to break up the hitherto integrated system and re-establish it as an interconnecting network of networks based on separate, nationalised, entities. Co-ordination began to shift from a consensual system to one based on prices and the hitherto largely self-contained system began to interconnect wi…
Trilateralism, legitimacy and the Working Group on Internet Governance
This discussion paper discusses the WSIS/WGIG processes and more specifically the outcomes of those processes. The two main outcomes of the WSIS/WGIG, the so-called 'Château de Bossey' document from the WGIG and the Tunis agenda for the information society, reflected the stalemate between proponents of the status quo and those who advocated bringing Internet governance (or at least control of the DNS) under the aegis of the ITU. The paper also di…
Networks, Markets and Hierarchies: Governance and Regulation of the UK Internet
Internet governance is the development and application by Governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet. –Working Group on Internet Governance [WGIG], 2005. THE Internet is now indispensable. About 24 m UK households are connected1 and, of these homes, more now have broadband access than h…
Enter the Grecian Horse? Regulation of Foreign Ownership of the Media in the UK
This article reviews national media ownership regulation in the UK. It places the UK's regime in an international context, showing it to be less onerous than some comparable countries and more onerous than others, and in a historical context, examining the changing configuration of UK media ownership and regulation. It assesses the economic and cultural effects of UK national media ownership regulation and identifies differences in and between so…
Supper with the devil — a case study in private/public collaboration in broadcasting: The genesis of Eurosport
Time-honoured distinctions between public service and commercial broadcasters are eroding. A chief driver of these changes is a rise in the prices of programmes and of the cost of television sports rights in particular. Many contemporary instances of these trends were foreshadowed in an early example of cooperation between European public service broadcasters and their commercial rivals in the 1980s. The EBU-sponsored satellite television channel…
Locked in a mortal embrace. Les politiques audiovisuelles européennes du Royaume-Uni et de la France
La France et la Grande-Bretagne représentent, sous leurs formes les plus pures, les visions et les forces opposées qui ont façonné la politique de l'Union européenne. Tentant de faire la part des différences objectives d'intérêts et des perceptions subjectives, l'article cherche à évaluer si les spécificités des marchés intérieurs et des échanges internationaux cinématographiques et télévisuels de la France et du Royaume-Uni justifient les positi…
Andrei Codrescu's Mioritic Space
Journal Article Andrei Codrescu’s Mioritic Space Get access Richard Collins Richard Collins Xavier University, Nezo Orleans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 1998, Pages 83–101, https://doi.org/10.2307/467679 Published: 01 September 1998
Broadcasting Policy for a Post Apartheid South Africa: Some Preliminary Proposals
(1992). Broadcasting Policy for a Post Apartheid South Africa: Some Preliminary Proposals. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 26-51
Broadband Black Death cuts queues. The Information Society and the UK
Genre: A Reply to Ed Buscombe
Journal Article Genre: A Reply to Ed Buscombe Get access Richard Collins Richard Collins works in the Scottish Education Department Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 11, Issue 4-5, July/October 1970, Pages 66–75, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/11.4-5.66 Published: 01 July 1970
Genre: A Reply to Ed Buscombe
Journal Article Genre: A Reply to Ed Buscombe Get access Richard Collins Richard Collins works in the Scottish Education Department Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 11, Issue 4-5, July/October 1970, Pages 66–75, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/11.4-5.66 Published: 01 July 1970
The Comic Dissolution of Art: "The Last Act of Hegel's "Aesthetics
It is perhaps unfortunate that well-meaning disciples of Hegel decided to publish the transcriptions of his lectures on fine art, the Aesthetics. That he did not publish these lectures himself may indicate in what light he thought of them. Intended as performance, they are nothing if not a comedy which might be called The Dissolution of Art. Of the publication of plays Hegel had this to say: Indeed, in my opinion, no play should really be printed…
Broadband Black Death cuts queues. The Information Society and the UK
Seeing is believing: The ideology of naturalism
This article reviews Nothing but the Truth: Cinéma Vérité and the Films of the Roger Graef Team, a dossier edited by John Wyver and published in 1982 by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in conjunction with the British Film Institute
Walling Germany with brass: Theoretical paradigms in British studies of television news
Bad News and Bad Faith: The Story of a Political Controversy
Journal Article Bad News and Bad Faith: The Story of a Political Controversy Get access Richard Collins Richard Collins 1Richard Collins is on the Faculty of Communication at the Polytechnic of Central London. © 1987 by Richard Collins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 4, December 1986, Pages 131–138, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1986.tb01455.x Published: 07 …
The Metaphor of Dependency and Canadian Communications: The Legacy of Harold Innis
It is with some sense of lese-majeste and presumption that I a citizen of one of the old dominant metropoles, offer this critical engagement with Innis and his legacy to thinking about communications in Canada. I hope that my perspective as an outsider may be judged, in this instance, enabling rather than disabling . In constructing my own set of theoretical earthworks from behind which I can begin my sapping of the Innis redoubt I want to profit…
Wall-To-Wall ‘Dallas’? The US-UK Trade in Television
Journal Article Wall-To-Wall ‘Dallas’? The US-UK Trade in Television Get access Richard Collins Richard Collins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 27, Issue 3-4, May-August 1986, Pages 66–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.3-4.66 Published: 01 May 1986
A long-term follow-up study of a children's psychiatric day treatment center
The Nation and the National Elite in Canada
The language of advantage: Satellite television in Western Europe
Culture, Communication and National Identity: The Case of Canadian Television
A European multilingual society, without a shared culture or common European audio-visual sphere and with viewers watching foreign television, can survive successfully as a political entity ? just as Canada has
Culture, Communication & National Identity: The Case of Canadian Television
Television and national identity on both sides of the Atlantic
Culture, Communication and National Identity: The Case of Canadian Television
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Broadcasting Policy for a Post Apartheid South Africa: Some Preliminary Proposals
(1992). Broadcasting Policy for a Post Apartheid South Africa: Some Preliminary Proposals. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 26-51
The Screen Education Reader
Screen Education was one of the foremost journals working in the area of media and cultural theory during the 1970s. Along with its sister journal, Screen, it introduced important work in the newly-em
National broadcasting and the international market: Developments in Australian broadcasting policy
L'A. etudie le developpement et l'evolution recente du systeme d'emission televisee et radiophonique en Australie. Il montre ensuite que dans ce domaine, l'Australie doit faire face a deux choix : integrer prochainement ses emissions sur le marche international ou persister dans le refus d'une ouverture aux capitaux etrangers
Unity in Diversity? The European Single Market in Broadcasting and the Audiovisual, 1982–92
Trading in Culture: The Role of Language
This chapter considers why the imperatives of cultural development and economy are often perceived to be contradictory; the fundamental ambiguity of meaning of the category “culture"; the conflict between socially established understandings of the category “culture” and the patterns of cultural practice created by contemporary circumstances (notably the industrialization/popularization of culture and globalization of economic activity). It examin…
Television: Policy and Culture
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Reflections across the Atlantic: Contrasts and Complementarities in Broadcasting Policy in Canada and the European Community in the 1990s
This article describes the development of broadcasting policy in the European Community and considers its relevance for Canada. It outlines the policy conflicts in Europe between proponents of competition and planning and the relationship between different policies (and policy paradigms) and rival programs for fostering European union
Europæisk Kultur - et fantasifoster
I dette essay tager Richard Collins kritisk fat omkring en ef det europæ- iske samarbejdes nælder: kulturen. I de sidste 10-15 år har integrations- bestræbelserne i EU været præget af en nationalistisk forestilling om snæver sammenhæng mellem kultur og politik: For at skabe et politisk- økonomisk samarbejde i Europa må der derfor udvikles en fælles euro- pæisk kultur, siger fortalerne. Ikke mindst på baggrund af erfaringer med pan-europæiske medi…
Back to the future
The Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas: A history of partnership
The decision in 1987 by the pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. to provide Mectizan (ivermectin) free of charge to river blindness control programs has challenged the international public health community to find effective ways to distribute the drug to rural populations most affected by onchocerciasis. In the Americas, PAHO responded to that challenge by calling for the elimination of all morbidity from onchocerciasis from the Region by the year 200…
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