McGannon Center Working Paper Series


Issues and Challenges Facing Internet Governance: A Report from the 2007 Internet Governance Forum [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

Corporate Governance: The Revival of an Academic, Professional, and Policy Field [pdf]
By Juan Artero, University of Navarra, Visiting Research Fellow, McGannon Center

Consumer Brand Equity of the Media: The Value Perceptions of Professional Media Buyers [pdf]
By Mart Ots, Jonkoping International Business School, Visiting Research Fellow, McGannon Center, & Per-Erik Wolff, Jonkoping International Business School

Public Interest Media Activism and Advocacy as a Social Movement: A Review of the Literature [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

Toward a Federal Data Agenda for Communications Policymaking [doc]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center and Joe Karaganis, Social Science Research Council

Media Policy: An Overview of the Field. [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

Hyperlinking and the Forces of "Massification." [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

Newspaper/Television Cross-Ownership and Local News and Public Affairs Programming on Television Stations: An Empirical Analysis. [pdf]
By Michael Z. Yan, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Bridging Cultural Policy and Media Policy in the U.S.: Challenges and Opportunities. [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

Necessary Knowledge for Communications Policy: Information Inequalities and Commercial Data Access and Usage in the Policymaking Process. [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center and Michelle Seaton, Research Assistant, McGannon Center

Intellectual Scaffolding: On Peter Dahlgren's Theorization of Television and the Public Sphere. [doc]
By Minna Aslama, Visiting Research Fellow, McGannon Center

The Diversity Challenge: Changing Television Markets and Public Service Programming in Finland, 1993-2004 [doc]
By Minna Aslama, Visiting Research Fellow, McGannon Center

Ownership Concentration and Indecency: Is There a Link? [pdf]
By Jonathan Rintels, Director, Center for Creative Voices in Media and Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

Access to Audiences as a First Amendment Right: Its Relevance and Implications for Electronic Media Policy [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center and Sheea Sybblis, Research Assistant, McGannon Center

Media Ownership and the Diversity Index: Outlining a Social Science Research Agenda [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center and Nancy Gillis, Research Assistant, McGannon Center

Audience Measurement and Media Policy: Audience Economics, the Diversity Principle, and the Local People Meter [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

When Law and Social Science Go Hand in Glove -- Usage and Importance of Local and National News Sources: Critical Questions and Answers for Media Market Analysis [pdf]
By Mark Cooper, McGannon Center Fellow

Market Competition, Station Ownership, and Local News andPublic Affairs Programming on Local Broadcast Television [pdf]
By Michael Yan (University of Michigan) and Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

Media Economics and Media Policy: The Good and the Bad [pdf]
By Philip M. Napoli, Director, McGannon Center

Other Research 


Media Research Hub
This extensive electronic resource, developed by the Social Science Research Council (a McGannon Center research partner) is a rapidly growing source of scholarship, event information, and individual and organizational background information for the entire communications policy research and advocacy fields. 

Public Interest Media Activism and Advocacy: An Annotated Bibliography [pdf]
This annotated bibliography was prepared in connection with the McGannon Center's working paper, Public Interest Media Activism and Advocacy as a Social Movement: A Review of the Literature.  This bibliography has been prepared as a resource for scholars, activists, policy professionals, and students interested in the field of media activism and advocacy, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Mapping Communication and Media Research in the U.S. [pdf]
This project, conducted by the Communication Reseach Center (CRC) at the University of Helsinki, constituted part of the research undertaken by the McGannon Center's Visiting Research Fellow (and CRC research team member) Minna Aslama during her time at the McGannon Center.  This study is part of a larger series of studies examining the state of communications research in various countries around the world.

The Localism Principle in Communications Policymaking: An Annotated Bibliography [pdf]
This annotated bibliography was prepared in connection with the ongoing FCC proceeding investigating the state of broadcast localism in the United States.  This bibliography has been prepared as a resource for scholars, activists, policy professionals, and students interested in the meaning and function of localism in U.S. media regulation.

Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning, Metrics, and the Public Interest: Conference Report [pdf]
This detailed report is the outgrowth of a conference organized and hosted by the McGannon Center, with the support of the Ford Foundation, in December of 2003. The purpose of the conference was bring together an inter-disciplinary collection of scholars, along with policy professionals, industry representatives, activists, and advocates, to share research related to the process of developing rigorous metrics for measuring diversity and localism in the U.S. media system.