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Throughout the world, there is a vast remapping of media laws and policies. This important moment for building more democratic media is attributable to rapid-fire geo-political changes. These include a growing zest for information, the general move towards democratization, numerous pressures from the international community, and the inexorable impact of new media technologies. Whatever the mix in any specific state, media law and policy is increasingly a subject of intense debate. The formation of media law and media institutions is one of the most important factor in order to build up an effective social democracy. Too often, this process of building media that advances democracy is undertaken without a sufficient understanding of the many factors involved.

The first factor that we need to consider is Law in correlation with Media and Democratic institutions. There are democratic societies with different profiles of the media, no specific matrix of press development can be considered essential as part of the project of democratization. Development of free and independent media can itself take many forms, and freedom and independence can have many gradations. Given modern telecommunications, especially the Internet, and greater and greater cross-border data flow, the functions of traditional media may be complemented but hardly superseded. Only with an understanding of basic elements of structure and function can policies to further a particular right to receive and impart information be evaluated.

Because there are democratic societies with different profiles of the media, no specific matrix of press development can be considered essential as part of the project of democratization. Development of free and independent media can itself take many forms, and freedom and independence can have many gradations. Law alone, efforts of donors alone, or efforts by the host government alone (by subsidy, delivery of newsprint, or control over the means of distribution) rarely ever determine how free, pluralistic, and independent the media can be (although all of these structural aspects are important). What is true across the board is that there is a close interaction between what might be called the legal-institutional and the socio-cultural the interaction between law and how it is interpreted and implemented, how it is respected and received.

Media law reform and other steps that are taken must be evaluated in a specific way. They should be viewed substantially as helping to constitute a media-sensitive society and evaluated in the way they contribute to this process. Taking laws off the shelf of another society and plugging them into the processes of transition will certainly, alone, be insufficient. The public acts of drafting and debating media laws can be enacted as a drama, a teaching drama that educates the citizenry in the role that the media can play. The process might encourage a rise in consciousness about the value and functioning of free speech and its operation in the society.

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1. What is the main topic of the text?
2. Please give an appropriate tittle for the text above.
3. Why it is important to build more democratic media?

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1) Political

2) Political society

3) Media law reform and ud that are taken must be evaluated in a specific way .

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