From News Diversity to News Quality: New Media Regulation Theoretical Issues

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-141
Author(s):  
Inna Lyubareva ◽  
Fabrice Rochelandet
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Theoretical Issues

Controling and governance of audiovisual media services in Poland

2017 ◽  
pp. 213-221
Author(s):  
Oksana Zvozdetska
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Media Services

The paper attempts to outline the Polish National Broadcasting Council’s establishing and evaluating its activities. The author observes that after 1989, one of the most essential achievements of the Polish media market was the creation of the National Broadcasting Council (Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji KRRiT), that laid the foundations for a new media landscape in Poland. In a broader perspective, despite being criticized, the National Broadcasting Council is to meet high expectations for the electronic media regulation, its impact on state policy in implementing cultural and educational tasks by the Polish community broadcasters. Concurrently, making mistakes and handling criticism was partly caused by the Council politicization bias, a large executive subordination that doesn’t comply both with the Law “On Television and Radio Broadcasting” and European practice. Notable, the success of community broadcasters, who value interaction with viewers and listeners, should be a model for audiovisual sector to emulate. Keywords: Mass Media, the National Broadcasting Council, Advisory Council, audiovisual sector

W(h)ither Media Influence?

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Cunningham ◽  
Angela Romano
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Complex Flows ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Central Term

During 1999–2000, the Productivity Commission's inquiry into Broadcasting, together with the ABA's ‘cash for comment’ inquiry, painted the old shibboleth of media influence in a new light. Influence has been a central term in government media regulation, but the term has rarely been interrogated from first principles in the policy domain. Assumptions have been made about the greater influence of television compared with radio, in spite of ongoing controversy centring around the cash for comment inquiry that has spotlighted both the power of talkback radio kings and their potential to misuse it. Policy-makers and politicians have also been overly optimistic about the potential of new media forms to ameliorate concentration of influence in the hands of media oligopolies. After examining the complex flows of influence within and between media organisations, this paper lists several recommendations for future directions in research on the subject.

The Politics of Internet Policy and (Auto-)Regulation in Singapore

2001 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Lee
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Political Control ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Internet Regulation ◽  
Internet Policy ◽  
Political Campaigning

As an extension of my earlier work on ‘Internet Regulation in Singapore’ (Lee and Birch, 2000), this paper provides an update on Singapore's relentless drive towards new media regulation and ideological/political control. Taking on board the discourse of auto-regulation — that regulating the internet in Singapore is really about ensuring an ‘automatic functioning of power’ for the sake of political expedience and longevity — this paper offers some new insights into the politics of internet auto-regulation in Singapore, from its humble beginnings of censorship and ‘sleaze’ control (in the mid-1990s) to recent attempts at restricting free flows of information via new laws governing foreign broadcasters and the ‘liberal’ stifling of online political campaigning and debates (in 2001). I conclude that, despite its authoritarian leanings, the ‘success' of Singapore's internet and cultural policy of auto-regulation gives it the potential to become the global-accepted regulatory mindset.

To be prepared when the time has come: Argentina’s new media regulation and the social movement for democratizing broadcasting

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 588-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christof Mauersberger
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
New Media ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Conservative Media

Concentrated and usually conservative media are characteristic of Latin American countries, and at the same time these structures undermine meaningful democracy. Given the political influence of large media conglomerates, even most center-left governments are reluctant to limit the power of influential companies. Argentina, however, passed a new comprehensive media law in 2009 designed to democratize the media sector. This article traces the origins of the law and analyzes the strategies of the actors involved, with the focus resting on the roles of social movements and large media companies. The article then presents the main features of the new regulation that social movements now take as a model case for other countries. I argue that the new law originates from an unusually participatory legislative process and furthers the democratization of communication. The passage of this law is explained through the associational capabilities of the movement, the potent framing of media regulation as a matter of democracy and the changing media–state dynamics that disrupted the long-standing mutually supporting ties between the dominant Clarín Group and the government.

scholarly journals Promoting Cancon in the age of new media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Mejaski
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Broadcasting System ◽  
The Government ◽  
Canadian Culture ◽  
Canadian Content

Canadian broadcasting policy has long pursued the belief that content produced by and for Canadians holds cultural value for its domestic audiences, in addition to economic significance for Canada's media industries. As the capabilities of wireless and mobile technologies have developed to allow consumption of content traditionally broadcast on television, stakeholders have questioned how to ensure culturally-rich, domestically-produced content is available for Canadian audiences by such means. As industry stakeholders have debated the potential value of Canadian content in an increasingly globalized media landscape, technologies have continued to advance, and Canadians have increasingly turned to new media to be informed and entertained. With a lengthy history of media regulation, this paper will demonstrate how the Canadian government's slow, uncoordinated response to developing new media policy effectively perpetuates inhibiting tensions between cultural and economic goals. Questions that frame this enquiry include: What role does Canadian content play as a reflection of Canadian culture and support of the production industry within Canada's traditional broadcasting system? Is regulation of new media important to maintain traditional policy goals? If so, what kinds of regulation might be implemented in this new context? And to what degree does current new media policy succeed in pursuing cultural and industrial goals historically common to Canadian media regulation? In pursuing these questions, this paper will draw conclusions regarding the benefits of federal new media policy, and how the government can better advance domestic digital media production, as technologies continue to evolve.

scholarly journals Naujoji žiniasklaida ir nauji redagavimo iššūkiai: Norvegijos pamokos

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Terje S. Skjerdal
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Media Law ◽  
Editorial Responsibility ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
Baltic Countries

Šiame straipsnyje nušviečiama vis dažniau Norvegijoje diskutuojama naujosios žiniasklaidos kuriamų iššūkių redakcinei atsakomybei tema. Internetinių diskusijų forumai sukėlė ypač daug ginčų ir neaiškumų dėl redakcijos vaidmens. Tyrimas atskleidė, jog Norvegijos Spaudos nusiskundimų komisijos gaunamų skundų dėl internetinio turinio skaičius auga, dauguma jų pasitvirtina. Redakcijos skirtingai vertina vartotojo kuriamo turinio redagavimą Norvegijoje. Straipsnyje taip pat pristatoma skaitmeninės žiniasklaidos reglamentavimo sistema Šiaurės ir Baltijos šalyse. Dažniausiai taikomas tradicinis reglamentavimas, kurio nepakanka naujosios žiniasklaidos redakcinei atsakomybei apibrėžti. Vyraujančiame diskurse apie redakcijos kontrolės pobūdį skaitmeninėje žiniasklaidoje galima išskirti du priešingus požiūrius: “atsakingos redakcijos” diskursą ir “dalyvaujančios naujosios žiniasklaidos” diskursą. Pagaliau, žvelgiant į redakcijos skaitmeniniame amžiuje perspektyvas, galima būtų išskirti tris galimus scenarijus: silpnėjantį, stiprėjantį bei kintantį redaktoriaus vaidmenį.New media and new editorial challenges: Lessons from NorwayTerje S. Skjerdal SummaryThis article discusses some of the challenges that the new media create for editorial responsibility in light of recent discussion in Norway. Online discussion forums in particular have caused much dispute and ambiguity as regards editorial involvement. The study shows that the Norwegian Press Complaints Commission has received an increasing number of complaints regarding online content, and that the complaints usually result in an adjudication. It is shown that Norwegian editors have diverse attitudes towards the question of pre-moderation or post-moderation of user-generated content. The study further contains an overview and discussion of media regulation in the Nordic-Baltic countries in relation to the digital media. The regulations are generally traditional in their focus and are insufficient to clarify questions of editorial responsibility of the new media. In terms of the dispute over editorial control in the digital media, two contradicting discourses are identified: the ‘responsible editorship’ discourse and the ‘participatory new media’ discourse. Lastly, three scenarios are drawn as regards the prospects of editorship in the digital media age: a weakened, a strengthened and a redefined role of the editor.Key words: Editorial responsibility, online discussion, code of ethics, media law, Norway, Nordic-Baltic countries

Balancing on a Tightrope in an Age of New Online Media?

2019 ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
David Erdos
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Information Power ◽  
Default Data

This chapter explores the significance of the book’s empirical and normative study of the interface between European data protection regulation and professional journalists, artists, and both academic and non-academic writers within the contemporary online media. The study has elucidated practical attempts at regulating professional journalism through a contextual rights-balancing paradigm, argued that this should be generalized to other traditional publishers, and proposed that it be systematically developed through co-regulation and strategic enforcement. It is contended that, notwithstanding the rise of new online media, an examination of the regulation of traditional publishers still has strong significance in and of itself. These actors continue to possess disproportionate information power and perform a vital role in distilling, explaining and putting new information and ideas into the public realm. The themes of the book may also contribute to thinking on new online media regulation. Whilst such media often does not orientate itself towards a public discourse, some kind of contextual balancing (even if often internal to default data protection norms) remains necessary. Co-regulation, encompassing not just platforms but also users, could also play some role in specifying that (albeit stricter) balance. Finally, not least given the severe resource constraints of Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), strategic enforcement is likely to be necessary in this context also. Through engagement with both traditional and new media, data protection is becoming a holistic regulator of the information ecosystem, thereby highlighting its importance within contemporary society.

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