Media Regulatory Frameworks in the Age of Broadband: Securing Diversity

Hitchens, LP

Media Regulatory Frameworks in the Age of Broadband: Securing Diversity

Hitchens, LP

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Publisher:: Pennsylvania State University
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Information Policy, 2011, 1 pp. 217 - 240
Issue Date:: 2011-01

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dc.contributor.author	Hitchens, LP https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-7012	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Information Policy, 2011, 1 pp. 217 - 240	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2158-3897	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19001
dc.description.abstract	Professor Hitchens, writing from Australia, sees a dramatically different regulatory framework in a post-convergence Broadband Age. Future media policy and regulation, she says, will have to address the entire media ecosystem, viewed as a regulatory space in which self-regulation and the market are all part of the basket of regulatory tools. Its goal should be to maintain and strengthen the public sphere. Traditional rules limiting media ownership or setting content requirements are unlikely to be viable, and will be replaced by increased reliance on sectoral ex ante competition regulation, perhaps complemented by a code of behavior promoting self-regulation regarding content. Hitchens concludes that traditional media regulations rooted in spectrum scarcity are not sustainable in the long term.	en_US
dc.publisher	Pennsylvania State University	en_US
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dc.title	Media Regulatory Frameworks in the Age of Broadband: Securing Diversity	en_US
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Abstract:

Professor Hitchens, writing from Australia, sees a dramatically different regulatory framework in a post-convergence Broadband Age. Future media policy and regulation, she says, will have to address the entire media ecosystem, viewed as a regulatory space in which self-regulation and the market are all part of the basket of regulatory tools. Its goal should be to maintain and strengthen the public sphere. Traditional rules limiting media ownership or setting content requirements are unlikely to be viable, and will be replaced by increased reliance on sectoral ex ante competition regulation, perhaps complemented by a code of behavior promoting self-regulation regarding content. Hitchens concludes that traditional media regulations rooted in spectrum scarcity are not sustainable in the long term.

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