#mediapolicy — Public Fediverse posts
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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 systemVictor 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."
#PoliticalEconomy #Media #Journalism #Democracy #MediaPolicy #PostCapitalism
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#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
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#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
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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