Information Society Watch

2007, Milton L. Mueller, Brenden N. Kuerbis, and Christiane Pagé, International Journal of Communication

This paper is a case study of the role of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and multi-stakeholder governance processes in the formation of international communication-information policy. It analyses the Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) during the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The paper combines methods of historical institutionalism and empirical social network analysis.

World Association for Christian Communication

This guide offers a glimpse of what communication rights are and its importance in the information society. What are ‘communication rights’? How do they relate to ‘human rights’? How do they differ from ‘freedom of expression’? Communication is recognised as an essential human need and, therefore, as a basic human right. Without it, no individual or community can exist, or prosper.