CS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: New Media, Public Good
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Speed, intensity, innovation = challenge: speed of development of new media = Isps/broadcasting/telecomm are becoming virtually the same thing due to technical, market convergence. Integration of telecomm (carriage: and broadcast (content) must be reflected in new regulation, legislation, digital tech causing new problems in regulation of: Privacy, copyright, taxation, policy, culture, national identity all responsibility of separate regulatory entities until technical convergence: federal regulators need a new strategy to define/control converged technology and policy, de-regulation trend for 20 years: Competition between isps/broadcasting/telecomm has been adequate, in light of de-regulation according to crtc: but there is a limit to trusting the market. 5991 cost is one thing, but : what about cultural policies (always take a back seat superstructure to the market"s base ) In neo-liberal economic terms the market is everything: cultural aesthetic means nothing to the market, outside the market, media convergence has caused audience fragmentation .
