The politics of Global Communication

*The three substantive domains

* The beginnings

**Telecommunication

**Intellectual property rights

**Mass media

**The new multilateral institutions

**Specialized Agencies

**The Nongovernmental Organizations

**Shifts in global communication Politics

**The WTO

*Current practices

**The domain of telecommunication

**The WTO telecommunication treaty

**Changing the account rate settlement system

**The domain of intellectual property rights

**The domain of mass media

*Lessons from a key project in the domain of global mass media politics

*Global communication politics today

**Access
**Knowledge
**Global Advertising
**Privacy
**Intellectual property rights
**Trade in culture
**Concentration
**The commons
**Civil Advocacy
**The world summit on the information society