#mediapolicy — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/iran/101153/ Trump gutted the tools to fight disinformation. Now Iran has the advantage. #Commentary #disinformation #ElonMusk #FactChecking #IFCN #InformationIntegrity #InformationWarfare #InternationalFactCheckingNetwork #Iran #IranWar #MediaPolicy #MediaTrust #Meta #misinformation #PresidentDonaldTrump #PressFreedom #propaganda #SocialMedia #USAID #x

The emerging AI content market, intended to help publishers monetise the value their work provides to AI models, is already reproducing familiar structural flaws. #AI #Copyright #Publishers #ContentLicensing #DigitalMarkets #MediaPolicy #CreativeEconomy static1.squarespace.com/static/5e449...

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The digital town square is getting a upgrade ito defend against synthetic reality. YouTube just announced the expansion of AI-assisted deepfake detection tools, specifically prioritizing politicians and journalists. This move acknowledges the truth that voices and faces can be cloned in seconds and we need more than just manual reporting to survive.

The system uses a combination of facial recognition and audio analysis to identify content that has been manipulated. While no tool is perfect, this is a major step toward protecting the integrity of public discourse. You should watch how these tools evolve, as the ability to verify what is human and what is synthetic will soon be the most valuable currency on the internet.

🧠 YouTube is expanding its detection algorithms to automatically flag synthetic likenesses.
⚡ The tool focuses on protecting individuals most likely to be targets of misinformation campaigns.
🎓 Content creators must now disclose when they use generative AI to depict real people.
🔍 This expansion is part of a broader industry push to secure the 2026 election cycle.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/891678/youtube-is-expanding-its-ai-deepfake-detection-tool-to-politicians-and-journalists
#Deepfakes #AIGovernance #DigitalIntegrity #MediaPolicy #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #DeepFakes

Repeal the Online News Act to better inform Canadians
#Canada #OnlineNewsAct #MediaPolicy #Journalism #Tech #FreePress #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Democracy #PublicInterest #CanadianPolitics #DigitalMedia #BigTech #NewsAccess #Democracy #Governing #News
https://the-14.com/repeal-the-online-news-act-to-better-inform-canadians/

Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist
media system

Victor Pickard

(Communication, Culture and Critique, 2025, 18, 282–284)

"Media-related problems facing democratic societies around the world today often stem from various kinds of market failures and structural limitations endemic to all capitalist media systems. Yet, the capitalist logics at the root of these problems largely escape critical analysis in communication research. Working against such “capitalist media realism,” this article begins to interrogate these logics and provides a preliminary framework for gradually eroding them in favor of a less capitalist and more democratic media system."

https://victorpickard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eroding-the-markets-hidden-hand_-toward-a-post-capitalist-media-system-1.pdf

#PoliticalEconomy #Media #Journalism #Democracy #MediaPolicy #PostCapitalism

Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist
media system

Victor Pickard

(Communication, Culture and Critique, 2025, 18, 282–284)

"Media-related problems facing democratic societies around the world today often stem from various kinds of market failures and structural limitations endemic to all capitalist media systems. Yet, the capitalist logics at the root of these problems largely escape critical analysis in communication research. Working against such “capitalist media realism,” this article begins to interrogate these logics and provides a preliminary framework for gradually eroding them in favor of a less capitalist and more democratic media system."

https://victorpickard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eroding-the-markets-hidden-hand_-toward-a-post-capitalist-media-system-1.pdf

#PoliticalEconomy #Media #Journalism #Democracy #MediaPolicy #PostCapitalism

Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist
media system

Victor Pickard

(Communication, Culture and Critique, 2025, 18, 282–284)

"Media-related problems facing democratic societies around the world today often stem from various kinds of market failures and structural limitations endemic to all capitalist media systems. Yet, the capitalist logics at the root of these problems largely escape critical analysis in communication research. Working against such “capitalist media realism,” this article begins to interrogate these logics and provides a preliminary framework for gradually eroding them in favor of a less capitalist and more democratic media system."

https://victorpickard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eroding-the-markets-hidden-hand_-toward-a-post-capitalist-media-system-1.pdf

#PoliticalEconomy #Media #Journalism #Democracy #MediaPolicy #PostCapitalism

Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist
media system

Victor Pickard

(Communication, Culture and Critique, 2025, 18, 282–284)

"Media-related problems facing democratic societies around the world today often stem from various kinds of market failures and structural limitations endemic to all capitalist media systems. Yet, the capitalist logics at the root of these problems largely escape critical analysis in communication research. Working against such “capitalist media realism,” this article begins to interrogate these logics and provides a preliminary framework for gradually eroding them in favor of a less capitalist and more democratic media system."

https://victorpickard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eroding-the-markets-hidden-hand_-toward-a-post-capitalist-media-system-1.pdf

#PoliticalEconomy #Media #Journalism #Democracy #MediaPolicy #PostCapitalism

Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist
media system

Victor Pickard

(Communication, Culture and Critique, 2025, 18, 282–284)

"Media-related problems facing democratic societies around the world today often stem from various kinds of market failures and structural limitations endemic to all capitalist media systems. Yet, the capitalist logics at the root of these problems largely escape critical analysis in communication research. Working against such “capitalist media realism,” this article begins to interrogate these logics and provides a preliminary framework for gradually eroding them in favor of a less capitalist and more democratic media system."

https://victorpickard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eroding-the-markets-hidden-hand_-toward-a-post-capitalist-media-system-1.pdf

#PoliticalEconomy #Media #Journalism #Democracy #MediaPolicy #PostCapitalism

Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/disney-abc-reinstate-jimmy-kimmel-amid-uproar-over-government-censorship/

#HackerNews #Disney #JimmyKimmel #FCC #Backlash #Censorship #MediaPolicy

#MediaPolicy #CommunicationGovernance #TechnologyPolicy #MediaStudies: "The Global Media Policy Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of Global Communication Governance at the crossroads, the 20th title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. Edited by Claudia Padovani, Véronique Wavre, Arne Hintz, Gerard Goggin and Petros Iosifidis.

The collection celebrates 20+ years of activity of the Working Group on Global Media Policy, addressing current challenges, trends and transformations in global communication governance. Exploring changes in the actors, issues, values and contexts of media and communications, it investigates the crossroads that media policy is facing and offers visions for the future. A diverse range of scholars and expert practitioners discuss what regulatory reforms and governing mechanisms are required to advance democratic participation and fundamental rights in platform societies.

Organized around five sections, the volume considers the geopolitics of emerging communication orders; the changing roles of actors and stakeholders; the challenge of embedding rights and values in regulatory arrangements; the intersection of technology and policy; and the need to rethink epistemologies and methodologies for researching this field.

Contributions from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds include provocative think pieces and longer analyses. All chapters are grounded in historically-aware understandings of contemporary transformations, while anticipating dynamics of our communication futures."

https://iamcr.org/publications/iamcr-book-series/padovani-et-al-2023

#MediaPolicy #CommunicationGovernance #TechnologyPolicy #MediaStudies: "The Global Media Policy Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of Global Communication Governance at the crossroads, the 20th title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. Edited by Claudia Padovani, Véronique Wavre, Arne Hintz, Gerard Goggin and Petros Iosifidis.

The collection celebrates 20+ years of activity of the Working Group on Global Media Policy, addressing current challenges, trends and transformations in global communication governance. Exploring changes in the actors, issues, values and contexts of media and communications, it investigates the crossroads that media policy is facing and offers visions for the future. A diverse range of scholars and expert practitioners discuss what regulatory reforms and governing mechanisms are required to advance democratic participation and fundamental rights in platform societies.

Organized around five sections, the volume considers the geopolitics of emerging communication orders; the changing roles of actors and stakeholders; the challenge of embedding rights and values in regulatory arrangements; the intersection of technology and policy; and the need to rethink epistemologies and methodologies for researching this field.

Contributions from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds include provocative think pieces and longer analyses. All chapters are grounded in historically-aware understandings of contemporary transformations, while anticipating dynamics of our communication futures."

https://iamcr.org/publications/iamcr-book-series/padovani-et-al-2023

#Media #MediaPolicy #Journalism #News #PublicService #MarketFailure: "Amid the retreat of local journalism and the resulting emergence of “news deserts,” where communities lack authentic and civically accountable sources of news, it is important to not only seek new revenue streams for news organizations but also to consider how financial resources and institutional structures secure journalistic autonomy and an abiding dedication to public service. Surveying initiatives to bolster local reporting in multiple countries, this study finds that such efforts frequently rest on an unstated optimism that market failures can be corrected and that new, sustainable business models ultimately will solve the journalism crisis. In contrast to these stopgap interventions, initiatives based on public service media principles found in the world's healthiest democracies—such as providing information across all social groups and fostering civic engagement—are better positioned to rebuild local systems in which news media are structured as enduring social institutions with crucial roles to play in democratic processes."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2253928

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy

#USA #Journalism #News #LocalNews #Newspapers #Media #MediaPolicy: "This paper plays out against a backdrop of continued closures and diminished local news reporting across much of the United States. It explores the role that media policy can and should play in supporting local journalism.

In examining this topic, we investigate three fundamental questions:

What is local media policy?
What are the key existential issues and/or problems local media policy must wrestle with?
What potential solutions to the local news crisis can media policy potentially help address?
The core of our response to these questions is derived from a series of five public webinars hosted by the Tow Center. Through these events, we invited a range of industry and academic experts to share their perspectives on areas related to these major themes.

Our conversations explored the scope of media policy, barriers to implementation, opportunities for policy to make a difference, and some of the unique characteristics that shape U.S. media policy and attitudes toward potential policy interventions.

To this, we have added further context and updates on some of the latest policy developments, based on a literature review and our continued interest in this subject."

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/building-a-stronger-local-media-ecosystem-the-role-of-media-policy.php

Hello world!

* #Introduction in my new #Mastodon home, as I've just changed instance (& for new folks around!)

I'm a 🇧🇷 researcher in #MediaPolicy & #MediaEconomics at the University of Salzburg 🇦🇹.

I'm interested in media/tech structure (ownership, economics, governance) & political theory.

My current big project is the management of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor, which will be released in Jan (www.media-ownership.eu).

I'm a proud dad & I like to play heavy metal 🎸 in the free time 😊

Less than one week to apply! #academics #PhD #commodon #MediaPolicy #MediaEconomics

==

Looking for a paid PhD position in a nice city w/ friendly & competent fellows? 😁 Willing to research media/internet politics & economics? Want to be involved in EU-funded projects?

You've got it! Come work with us at the University of Salzburg!

Apply by 23 Nov.

Link for details and application:
https://www.plus.ac.at/kommunikationswissenschaft/aktuelles/academic-positions-in-the-department-of-communication-studies/

Glad to help if you want to discuss the position!

Hello floss.social world! Thanks to @admin & team for taking care of this space. Reposting my #introduction from mstdn.social here:

I'm Karina, born and raised in 🇵🇪
I'm a journalist, and I'm relatively new to the #dataprivacy and #mediapolicy beat in 🇺🇸
I'm a foodie with no influencer intentions / Travel whenever I can -> 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 in the last 3 months / Prefers non-fiction books / You can also meet my doggy 💕 Chimi here: https://mstdn.social/@pressgirlk/109247551327052485

Well, well, I was boosting (love the word) some #introductions here before posting mine:

I'm Karina, born and raised in 🇵🇪
I'm a journalist, and I'm relatively to new to the #dataprivacy and #mediapolicy beat in 🇺🇸
I'm a foodie with no influencer intentions / Travel whenever I can -> 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 in the last 3 months / Prefers non-fiction books / Here's a pic of my Chimi :dogroll: to brighten your day ✨ #Introduction #newtomastodon

Fairness Reconsidered: Receiving Audience as a Commons

The conceit of the Fairness Doctrine was that broadcast spectrum was a commons, and a limited public resource, arbitrarily allocated to a given (usually private) party. The right came with the obligation to manage this common resource in the public interest....

[What if we hold that] that public mindshare is itself a commons, and should be held and managed in the public interest. There’s a point at which reach or penetration themselves become exploitation of a public resource, and concern over the impacts of such reach are legitimate public concerns.

In information theory, a Sender transmits through a Channel to a Reciver. Fairness Doctrine was concerned with the receiver, but justified on the basis of the channel. I'm arguing that receiver itself is a valid justification.

An idea I'm kicking around. As with other recent posts, much of the meat is in comments, though the main article does cover much of the basics in this case.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/9e961b604c870139d3b1002590d8e506

#FairnessDoctrine #Media #MediaPolicy #InformationTheory #DonaldPMullally #DigitalMedia #OnlineMedia