Communication and internet policy: a critical rights-based history and future

Kerr, Aphra; Musiani, Francesca; Pohle, Julia

doi:10.14763/2019.1.1395

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“…These new movements increase the challenges for the legal profession. More interdisciplinary research is imperative, thereby widening the perspective for an overarching perception of Internet governance in all social sciences (for a good example, see Kerr, Musiani, and Pohle 2019).…”

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A Legal Lens into Internet Governance

Weber¹

2020

Researching Internet Governance

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In the field of Internet governance, the fast-changing technological and political environment challenges the suitability of traditional regulatory regimes; this assessment is justified even if the emphatic pronouncements in John Perry Barlow's (1996) Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace have turned out to be not realistic. The dichotomy between the global reach of the infrastructure and the national embedment of the normative framework occasions the need for new legal research concepts and methods. Issues such as legitimacy, regulatory quality, technical standardization, and accountability are to be addressed (Weber 2016a). As I show in this chapter, legal scholars need to tackle these challenges.Traditionally, the legal order was based on a communal, later on a national, normative framework that was complemented by self-regulatory instruments and, since the 19th century, partly by multilateral agreements. This regulatory framework, developed for the real world, is exposed to limitations if applied to the online world designed by the new information technologies. Therefore, the traditional understanding of political structures as command by a specific body that induces people to execute certain actions-in the sense that people think about what to choose and what to do-should be replaced in the Internet governance context by a more inclusive approach. Before discussing the details of such an approach, I outline some basic principles of legal theory and the relevant guiding regulatory strategies for Internet governance.

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A Legal Lens into Internet Governance

Weber¹

2020

Researching Internet Governance

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“…Ultimately, this model may result in less diverse and less local content generation. The consolidation of personal data in fewer hands might also increase, and perversely, negatively affect people's rights and freedoms overall, but also their cultural and communication rights, and media diversity, per se (Kerr et al, 2019). An interesting attempt to counter this consolidation of power is the development of pre-commercial data pooling and communal processing initiatives to benefit several (competitive) companies at once in local markets (e.g.…”

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Governing artificial intelligence in the media and communications sector

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Kerr²,

Robinson³

et al. 2023

Internet Policy Review

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The article analyses critical blindspots in current European Artificial Intelligence (AI) policies and examines the potential impact of data and AI in the emerging socio-technical ecosystem of the contemporary Media and Communications (MC) sector from the perspective of critical media and communication studies. We first identify central blind spots in the dominant EU trustworthy and risk-based approach to governing AI. Next, we propose a novel multi-level framework to analyse key policy challenges for governing AI in the MC sector. The framework and discussion are based on desk research and multi-stakeholder expert discussions. The article concludes with reflections on AI governance in development, deployment and use in the MC sector.Issue 1

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“…Against historical aversion to governmental input on internet policies (Napoli & Caplan, 2017), lawmakers were always a key part of the internet regulation debate. While some still argue that the internet policy realm belongs primarily to technical experts, the private sector, and/or multistakeholder internet institutions (Mueller, 2019), internet regulation takes place at different levels, in different forms, and by different actors (Kerr et al, 2019). In fact, global interest over internet policies may have never been more in evidence.…”

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A Cross-Country Analysis of Internet Policies: Trends in Internet-Related Bills in Brazil, Chile, and the United States (1997-2021)

Anastácio

Sánchez

Horne

2023

SPIR

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This paper analyzes trends and shifts in internet policy focus over time through a cross-country comparative lens. We employ computational and qualitative methods to map patterns in internet regulation across Brazil, Chile, and the United States over 24 years of data on proposed legislation (1997 to 2021). The study analyzes (1) What issues are lawmakers discussing in their proposed Internet-related legislation? (2) What are the cross-country thematic trends and patterns in Internet policy over time? (3) Can we identify national/transnational turning points in such trends? The cross-country historical analysis of internet-related bills helps us understand how responsive the lawmakers in the American continent are. By contrasting the bills’ policy themes with endogenous and exogenous events and forces in the region, we identify if lawmakers are anticipating future problems and then proposing regulation to meet those ends or if they are reacting after problems occur. More than that, we compare the lawmakers’ responsiveness between the North and South divide. Further, by contrasting the volume of bills per policy theme, we identify what issues are more salient to the lawmakers from the different countries. This information helps us analyze if the drivers for internet regulation in the region differ, and how different are the responses to similar issues between countries and between lawmakers from different ends of the political spectrum.

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Communication and internet policy: a critical rights-based history and future

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

A Legal Lens into Internet Governance

A Legal Lens into Internet Governance

Governing artificial intelligence in the media and communications sector

A Cross-Country Analysis of Internet Policies: Trends in Internet-Related Bills in Brazil, Chile, and the United States (1997-2021)

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