Description: This book exposes the anxieties of loss of control and missed opportunities for freedom of expression resulting from changes in technologies and geopolitics.
Brief description: Monroe E. Price is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and its Challenge to State Power (2002), Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (2008, edited with Daniel Dayan), the Routledge Handbook of Media Law (2013, edited with Stefaan Verhulst and Libby Morgan), and Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams (2009). Professor Price directs the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he works with a wide transnational network of regulators, scholars and practitioners in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia, as well as in the United States. He also heads the Howard Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City where he was dean and is now senior research associate at Oxford's Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy.
Review Quotes: "... Monroe Price challenges and transforms the way we observe, study and think about power and communications in society. A vivid, erudite and ambitious update of the theory of free expression - highly needed at a time of radical change in technology and geo-politics. Eloquent and masterly written, packed with surprising connections and refreshing metaphors. Price's 'architecture of information flows' construction thesis elaborated throughout the book is utterly enlightening - complimenting his prominent 'market for loyalties' argument. A book without any peer."
Stefaan G. Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief of Research and Development, The GovLab, New York University