Monroe Price
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Monroe E. Price is Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Global Communication Studies
Center for Global Communication Studies
The Center for Global Communication Studies is a research center located within the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. CGCS serves as a research hub for students and scholars worldwide studying comparative communication studies, media law, and media policy...

 (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication
Annenberg School for Communication
There are two schools named Annenberg School for Communication.*University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism*Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania...

 and Director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London. Professor Price is the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law, where he served as Dean from 1982 to 1991. Professor Price was founding director of the Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Wolfson College
Wolfson College, Oxford
Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Located in north Oxford along the River Cherwell, Wolfson is an all-graduate college with over sixty governing body fellows, in addition to both research and junior research fellows. It caters to a wide range of...

, Oxford, and a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was deputy director of California Indian Legal Services, one of the founders of the Native American Rights Fund
Native American Rights Fund
The Native American Rights Fund, also known as NARF, is a non-profit organization that uses existing laws and treaties to ensure that state governments and the national government live up to their legal obligations...

, and author of Law and the American Indian. Among his many books are Media and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2002), Television, The Public Sphere and National Identity (Oxford University Press, 1996), and “Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China” (University of Michigan Press, 2008, edited with Daniel Dayan).

Monroe Price developed the 'Market for Loyalties
Market for loyalties theory
Market for Loyalties Theory is a media theory based upon neoclassical economics. It describes why governments and power-holders monopolize radio, satellite, internet and other media through censorship using regulations, technology and other controls...

' theory during his tenure at Cardoza law in the 1990s. This theory examines media regulation in terms of a market with an exchange, not of cash for goods or services, but identity for loyalty.
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