CANCELED Does Traditional Media Regulation Have Anything to Offer Social ...
March 27, 2020
12:30 pm
Integrative Learning Center
Room: Communication Hub
UMass Amherst Campus
This event is canceled.
Amidst heated debates on misinformation campaigns and increasing monopoly power of social media platforms in advertising markets, policymakers in a number of countries have called for regulation of platform giants such as Facebook and Google. This presentation explores how this recognition is reflected in contemporary policymaking in the U.S., suggesting ways in which regulatory rationales and governance frameworks developed in traditional media contexts can prove useful in developing a coherent governance framework for social media.
Philip M. Napoli is the James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where he is also a faculty affiliate with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. His areas of specialization include media regulation and public policy; the future of local journalism; algorithms and news; and audience economics and measurements. His most recent book is Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age (Columbia University Press, 2019).
Directions:
The Integrative Learning Center is located in the center of campus, between the campus pond and the Campus Center.
