Codifying Cyberspace

Communications Self-Regulation in the Age of Internet

Convergence
Damian Tambini, Danilo Leonardi and Chris Marsden
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Can the Internet regulate itself? Faced with a range of 'harms'
and conflicts associated with the new media – from gambling
to pornography – many governments have resisted the
temptation to regulate, opting instead to encourage media
providers to develop codes of conduct and technical measures
to regulate themselves. The European Commission has
consistently encouraged a broader scope for self-regulation of
digital media during the first years of the Internet, and
continues to do so through the 2007 Audiovisual Media
Services Directive. As this book shows, despite the attractions of
this strategy, significant questions remain about its
effectiveness.
Codifying Cyberspace looks at media self-regulation in practice,
in a variety of countries. It also examines the problems of
balancing private censorship against fundamental rights to
freedom of expression and privacy for media users.
Self-regulation is not a new strategy and has already been used
in established media formats such as print, broadcast and film,
but the new media, such as the Internet, mobile telephony and
online gaming, present new and unexpected challenges and December 2007
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result of a three-year Oxford University study funded by the
European Commission. Damian Tambini is Lecturer at the
London School of Economics. His
previous publications include Privacy and
Selected Contents:
the Media (2003), Collective Identities in
1. The ‘Classic’ Model of Self Regulation on the Internet
Action: Theories of Ethnic Conflict (2002),
2. Self-Regulation of Media Content in Europe 3. Methodology and and Cyberdemocracy (1998).
Media Self-Regulatory Codes of Conduct 4. Press Councils: Codes
and Analysis of Codes in the EU 5. Mechanisms for Self-Regulation in Danilo Leonardi is Head of PCMLP
(Programme in Comparative Media Law
the Broadcasting Sector in the EU 6. Internet Content and
and Policy) at the University of Oxford's
Self-Regulation 7. ISP Codes of Conduct 8. Self-Regulation of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Electronic Games Industry 9. Self-Regulation of the Film Industry
10. Mobile Telephony-Delivered Internet Services and Codes of Chris Marsden LL.B., LL.M. is
Co-Director in IT Media E-Commerce
Conduct to Protect Minors from Adult Content 11. The Privatisation
Law at the University of Essex Law School,
of Censorship? Self-Regulation and Freedom of Expression
and holds visiting fellowships at the
12. Concluding Chapter Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

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