Media Pluralism in Ireland
Over the holiday period, the lengthy report of the (Irish) Advisory Group on Media Mergers was finally published by the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment. Get the (12MB) PDF here. No...
View ArticleFit for the bin
Many of those who write about the regulation of media (myself included) get very excited about questions of access, particularly in relation to new media, with things like positioning on an electronic...
View ArticleMeCCSA Conference 2010
MeCCSA is the Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association and held its annual conference at LSE in London earlier this month. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend, but some of the papers...
View ArticleUncommon Carrier
I had the pleasure of attending a fascinating talk by Prof. Michael Carrier (of Rutgers School of Law) this week at Emmanuel College in Cambridge. Prof. Carrier was introduced by Prof. Lionel Bently,...
View ArticleVideocracy
From the New York Times, a review of a documentary film about the televisual and political world of Silvio Berlusconi, Videocracy (dir: Erik Gandini): Though Mr. Berlusconi himself — the man, oligarch,...
View ArticleWhen We Talk About Gikii…
So. As I said, I only managed to make it to the second day of the fifth edition of Gikii, but it was a very full day, and shows the strength of the concept (there is definitely an emerging Gikii...
View ArticleTripAdvisor
I’ve written about this week’s two TripAdvisor stories (Conor Pope’s piece on an Irish hotel group in the Irish Times and the ASA’s ruling on TripAdvisor’s marketing claims) over on the blog of the...
View ArticleMedia pluralism – 23 May – London
My colleagues in the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy are all set for this week’s event on media plurality, taking place in Westminster Hall at 5pm on Wednesday 23rd May. There are a very small...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence, competition – Monday plugging
(1) Supported by CREATe, here’s a fascinating workshop on artificial intelligence and the law, organised by my Edinburgh colleague Prof. Burkhard Schafer: Ever since Larry Lessig’s proposal to...
View ArticleRecommended reading, 7-13 February 2013
News, blog posts, etc European Commission, ‘EU Cybersecurity plan to protect open internet and online freedom and opportunity‘ (press release, 7 February 2013). Marking the release of a new strategy...
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