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Media Ownership
Research and Regulation
Fall 2004
As part of our year-long series on Media
Ownership, please join us for informative, intriguing
and challenging presentations by, and discussions with,
our Fall 2004 speakers:
Feeds Funnels, Filters and Us: The Public's Interest in the Media Environment
October
18: Media Ownership and Regulation
Patricia Aufderheide,
Professor in the School of Communication, and Director
of the Center for Social Media, American University:"Feeds,
Funnels, Filters and Us: The Public's Interest in the
Media Environment"
McCune Conference Room, 6th Floor Humanities and Social
Sciences Building, 4:00-5:30.
UCTV
Broadcast: Patricia Aufderheide
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3: Media Ownership and Legal Issues
Stanton "Larry"
Stein, Senior Partner of Alschuler Grossman Stein
& Kahan LLP: “Media Concentration in the Entertainment
Industry”
McCune Conference Room, 6th Floor Humanities and Social
Sciences Building, 4:00-5:30.
UCTV
Broadcast: Stein
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17: Copyright and Media Ownership
Moderator: Mark Rose, Associate
Vice Chancellor, Author of Authors and Owners: The
Invention of Copyright
William Warner,
Professor of English, Director of the University of
California Digital Cultures Project, UCSB
“Networking Versus Broadcasting: An Historical
Perspective on the Copyright Wars"
Sarah Pritchard, University Librarian, UCSB
“Copyright and Access to Information in the University”
McCune Conference Room, 6th Floor Humanities and Social
Sciences Building, 4:00-5:30.
UCTV
Broadcast: Rose / Warner / Pritchard
Media
Ownership: Research and Regulation is a year-long series
sponsored by:
- The
Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media
- The
Critical Issues in America Endowment of the College
of Letters & Science
- The
Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass
Communication in the Department of Communication
- Department
of Film and Media Studies
- Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center
Technological
developments, regulatory policies, political ideologies,
cultural trends, economic forces, and globalization,
the media landscape in the U.S. and around the globe
is rapidly changing. Many people are deeply concerned
about the increasing concentration of media production
and distribution, and worry about the effect of such
consolidation on diversity of opinion and content, creativity,
commercialization, and democratic access to the marketplace
of ideas. In June 2004, the Federal Communications Commission
approved sweeping changes in rules on media ownership
that would allow forms of vertical and horizontal integration
of the media and entertainment industries that have
not been seen since before the trust-busting “Paramount
decrees” of 1948. The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit stayed the implementation of the rules
after finding that the FCC’s studies “employ
several irrational assumptions and inconsistencies,”
and that the FCC’s “diversity index”
was arbitrary and capricious. Compounding the problem
of the lack of authoritative research on the social
and political effects of media concentration is the
lack of press coverage on these kinds of regulatory
debates. The time is right for a major public research
university to use its resources to discover the kind
of research programs needed to understand the national
and global complexity and consequences of the rapidly
changing configurations of media ownership, and to help
the public understand and react appropriately.
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