As the global information infrastructure evolves, the field of                  communication has the opportunity to renew itself while addressing the urgent policy                  need for new ways of thinking and new data to think about. Communication Researchers                  and Policy-making examines diverse relationships between the communication research                  and policy communities over more than a century and the issues that arise out of                  those interactions. The book provides primary material in the form of reports on                  such relationships spanning time periods, subject matter, policy issues,                  decision-making venues, and governments.The essays range from historical pieces on                  the importance of communication research since the beginning of systematic policy                  analysis and on the various roles that researchers can play to contemporary analyses                  of contributions of research to policy debates over network design and access, media                  violence, and advertising fraud. Substantial interstitial essays by the editor                  explore the impact of the policy context on communication theories and research                  practices, relationships between researchers and their institutional homes, the role                  of communication researchers as public intellectuals, and ways to maximize the                  impact of communication research on policy-making during this period of                  infrastructural transformation. The book includes an extensive                  bibliography.

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