Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power
Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Information Revolution and Global Politics)
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
Digital broadcasting - Challenges and opportunities for European community radio broadcasters
Telematics and Informatics
Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
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New ICTs have offered significant opportunities for citizen-based media production and for bypassing established gatekeepers. However these openings are heavily contested. States and the private sector try to control and curtail access to communication infrastructure as well as content, both in 'new' and 'old' media environments, while civil society initiatives have emerged to advocate for opening and expanding the means of communication. In this paper we first map out a set of challenges and obstacles that are being erected to contain free citizen-based media production. Then we introduce several policy initiatives from different countries which oppose those obstacles, including the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), mobilizations for the legalization of community media, European campaigns against surveillance legislation, and emerging proposals for media policy change in Arab countries. We investigate what repertoires of action they apply, the conditions of their success, and the (lack of) convergence of agendas. We conclude that they are deeply involved in not just policy advocacy but policy formulation and development, and that policy windows as well as international policy precedents are of crucial significance.