Archive for the 'Media' Category
French competition regulator released an important report, saying an internet provider should (Orange in this case) not be allowed to use exclusive broadcasting rights to make some media content available only to its suscribers.
France is thus drifting away from poor regulation that would have been detrimental to both the role that the media play in [...]
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Tags: Cultural industries, Orange, Telecom, TV
This article by John Naughton, professor at the Open University, is one of the most comprehensive ten-page articles you can get on new media. Naughton very well describes some of the characteristics of what he calls the “emerging media ecosystem”: user-generated content, cooperation and sharing.
Referring to Neil Postman, he draws a relevant analogy between the [...]
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Tags: New Media, Noam Chomsky, Politics
A few weeks ago, the French Journal Le Débat published a compelling piece by Benjamin Loveluck entitled “Internet: Toward a Radical Democracy?“. The author, who is writing a Ph.D thesis on “the hypermodern individual and the genealogy of contemporary media regimes” (sic), successfully locates the recent developments of the internet within the history of liberal-democracies. [...]
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Tags: Blogging, Copyright, Cultural industries, Democracy, Google, Intellectual Property, Internet, Journalism, Lessig, New Media, Philosophy
As some telecommunication companies slowly turn themselves into producers and distributors of media content, new issues arise for competition regulators. Public officials have hinted at several ways of dealing with this issue. On the one hand, market regulators are keen on maintaining a clear differentiation between these two sectors. On the other hand, some government [...]
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Tags: European Commission, France, Internet, Media, Orange, TV
Copyright Gone Wrong
At the beginning of this year, the head of the European Commission’s Internal Market and Services Directorate General Charlie McCreevy announced his plan to extend copyright terms for performers and phonogram producers from 50 years today to 95 years (1). The Commission advances the argument that many works from ageing musicians dating back to the [...]
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Tags: Copyright, European Union, Music Industry, P2P, Politics
In On Liberty (1859), philosopher John Stuart Mill reflects on the potential coercion that could result from democracy and more especially from what Alexi De Tocqueville called the “tyranny of the majority”.
In this work, Mill formulates a very convincing plea in favor of free speech. According to him, only by discussion can we test the [...]
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Tags: Democracy, Free Speech, Media, Philosophy
This article by Elizabeth Van Couvering, from the London School of Economics, is now four years old and thus allows to put in perspective the evolution of web search engines, which have become key players of the information society. She makes a few interesting points:
The author classifies search engines as media, saying that their business [...]
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Tags: Media, Search Engines, Web
What makes MySpace unique, along with other sites based on the same concept, such as Last.fm, is their unique and revolutionary service of popular culture broadcaster (so far, mainly music) relying on the technology of the Web 2.0. They link social networking and self-representation, and the prominent place of popular culture in identity formation and [...]
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Tags: Jenkins, Music Industry, Pop Culture, Social Networking
a diary about how new technologies redefine the polis by felix treguer
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News from the Wired Polis- File-Sharing good for cultural diversity and business November 11, 2009
- Enforcement of IPR... ACTA not the way to go November 6, 2009
- Europe misses out on a full protection of Net freedoms November 5, 2009
- Telcos turned into the police of the Net? November 4, 2009
- New battle fronts in sight for Net neutrality November 2, 2009
- More spectrum for wireless Internet in Europe? October 31, 2009
- EU to overhaul online privacy rules October 27, 2009
