A stylish revolution : the fourth Labour government and information management
xiv, 190 leaves Includes bibliographical references. University of Otago department: Political Studies.
Politics and the mass media in Britain
1 Politics and the Mass Media 2 Theories of the Media 3 The British Press 4 The British Press: Ownership, Control, Advertising and Re-Structuring 5 Broadcasting in Britain 6 The Politics of Broadcasting: 'Liberty on Parole' 7 News and the Production of News 8 'M is for Media': The Politics of Media Pressure 9 Political Communication: The Mass Media and General Elections 10 The New Media: Cable Television, Satellite Broadcasting and the Future of British Broadcasting 11 Do We Need a National Media Policy - Postscript The Future of the the BBC
The Internet and the Changing Beijing-Taipei Relations: Toward Unification or Fragmentation?
Information and its technologies facilitate the exercise of what has been called “soft power,” a concept that differentiates information from the conventional dimensions of “hard power,” which is mainly associated with military force and economic influence. Soft power, according to Nye, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States, means that “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because other countries want to follow it, admiring its values, emulating its example, aspiring to its level of prosperity and openness. In this sense it is just as important to set the agenda in world politics and attract others as it is to force them to change through the threat or use of military or economic weapons.”1