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The mission of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center is to conduct, support, reward, and disseminate research that informs the communications policymaking process and ethical decision-making in the management of media institutions. The Center seeks to contribute to the development of a tradition of rigorous research into media performance and media policy, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between the economic and the public service dimensions of media performance. In pursuit of these objectives, the Center will serve as a resource and forum for scholars, policymakers, industry groups, and public interest organizations with an interest in understanding the factors that affect media performance and the appropriate policies to promote and sustain a media system that functions effectively from both an economic and a public service standpoint.
The media environment is undergoing dramatic technological and institutional change. However, the principles that define a media system that best serves the needs of our democracy and culture remain constant. Principles such as diversity, localism, and competition are vital components of a media system that best serves the public interest. As media industries grow and respond to the changing technological environment, taking advantage of new revenue streams and expanding into new markets, attention must continue to be paid to the ethical and public interest dimensions of media performance. Only then can we be confident that the technological and institutional changes affecting the media and communications industries will have a positive impact on how the media contribute to our democracy and culture. It is vital that media and communications policy and ethics research focus on the inherent tensions between the economic dimensions and the political and cultural dimensions of our media institutions in order to guarantee that economic growth and opportunity do not come at the expense of a vibrant and robust marketplace of ideas.
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LATEST NEWS
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07.14.2008
Summer '08 McGannon Center Quarterly Newsletter Now Online.
07.08.2008
New Working Paper, Paradoxes of Media Policy Analysis.
07.06.2008
New Working Paper, Diversity as an Emerging Principle of Internet Governance.
07.06.2008
New Working Paper, Toward a Model of Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences.
06.19.2008 -- 06.21.2008
Center Hosts Annual Conference of the Emma L. Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media [check back for details].
06.01.2008
The Future of Reputation, by Daniel J. Solove, Wins 2007 McGannon Book Award.
05.02.2008 -- 05.03.2008
Center Co-Hosts Conference on
Information & the Information Economy[details]
04.07.2008
Spring '08 McGannon Center Quarterly Newsletter Now Online
02.28.2008
New Working Paper on Internet Governance by Center Director Philip Napoli
02.15.2008
New Working Paper on Corporate Governance by Visiting Research Fellow Juan Artero.
01.23.2008
McGannon Center/SSRC Study, "Toward a Federal Data Agenda for Communications Policymaking," published in the CommLaw Conspectus
01.22.2008
McGannon Center Participates in Future of American Communications Policy Working Group
01.08.2008
McGannon Center Accepting Applications for Visiting Research Fellows
01.08.2008
Winter '08 McGannon Center Quarterly Newsletter Now Online
12.13.2007
McGannon Center Book, Media Diversity and Localism, Reviewed in the Federal Communications Law Journal
11.01.2007
Center Director Conducts Peer Review for FCC Media Ownership Study on Ownershp Structure and Quality/Quantity of TV Programming, and Peer Review of FCC Study on Television News and Public Affairs
10.10.2007
Call for Participants: ICA Pre-Conference on Bridging Scholar/Activist Divide
10.01.2007
Social Science Research Council Launches Media Research Hub
09.24.2007
Fall '07 McGannon Center Quarterly Newsletter Now Online
09.10.2007
New Working Paper Released: Consumer Brand Equity of the Media: The Value Perceptions of Professional Media Buyers
08.06.2007
McGannon Center Releases Annotated Bibliography on Public Interest Media Activism and Advocacy
08.01.2007
McGannon Center Study on Access to Audiences as a First Amendment Right Published in the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology
07.20.2007
Summer '07 McGannon Center Quarterly Newsletter Now Online
07.15.2007
Center's Book, Media Diversity and Localism, Reviewed in Catholic University School of Law's CommLaw Conspectus
06.04.2007
McGannon Center Contributes to New Report on State of U.S. Communication Research [details]
04.28.2007
New Working Paper Released:
Public Interest Media Activism and Advocacy as a Social Movement: A Review of the Literature
04.25.2007
Yochai Benkler's Wealth of Networks Wins 2006 McGannon Book Award [details]
04.23.2007
Spring '07 McGannon Center Quarterly Newsletter Now Online
04.15.2007
New Publication in the Federal Communications Law Journal:
Necessary Knowledge for Communications Policy: Information Asymmetries and Commercial Data Access and Usage in the Policymaking Process [pdf]
02.15.2007
New Working Paper:
Toward a Federal Data Agenda for Communications Policymaking [doc]
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01.15.2007
New Book Announcement:
The Case Against Media Consolidation
Edited by McGannon Center Research Fellow Dr. Mark Cooper [details] [full text pdf]
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01.01.2007
New Book Announcement: Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics [details] |
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01.17.2007
McGannon Center Releases Two NewWorking Papers, Media Policy: An Overview of the Field and Hyperlinking and the Forces of"Massification |
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