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Abstract: Reflections on the Global Media Monitoring Project

In my talk I would like to propose a way of looking at power and influence in the world politics of communication that focuses on the nexus between media research, transnational communication advocacy and high level policy making. I shall do this by inductively starting from a specific project - the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) - and will proceed discussing the empowering potential of a chain of practices that connects knowledge production to discourses and norms formation which (may) end up informing actual policy making.

I adopt here a broad understanding of Global Communication Governance (Padovani & Pavan 2010; Raboy & Padovani 2010), one that acknowledges the interplay amongst different actors and modes of intervention, at different levels with different outcomes, including cognitive and normative developments. Such understanding invites a revision of the concepts of power and influence in the global context; and calls for adequate, and often multi-dimensional approaches, if we are to fully appreciate the elements that contribute to governing the global, including global communication.

I therefore suggest it becomes crucial to investigate the nexus between three elements: a) the role of expert knowledge and epistemic communities and the potential of empirically viable research activities as resources for policy making; b) the practices, repertoires and outcomes of transnational advocacy networks, with a special attention for their framing of issues and discursive interventions; and finally c) the possibility for research results and normative-oriented discursive practices, to develop into statements that may inform and orientate global decision making.

I think the Global Media Monitoring Project offers an amazing opportunity to look into these dynamics, while possibly resonating to a diversified audience: from gender aware individuals and groups, to students interested in the methodologies of the project, to people with a specific interest for media reform and communication rights activism from the local to the transnational level, to scholars who share concerns about the future orientation of global governance.