CMN 1160 Lecture 9: CMN1160 Lecture 9: Week 9A:9B

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

What is communication policy: public policy, communication policy: Widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to ensuring the public interest" . Marketplace of ideas: economic theory, social value theory. Media/communication policy issues = problems of maximizing e ciency. Improved economic e ciency = improved social welfare. Need to minimize government interference in the market. Free markets" only one means of improving social welfare. Free markets" may have socially undesirable e ects. Some level of government intervention may be bene cial. Situation where societal policy objectives (social, economic, political) cannot be met by an. Many industry speci c governance mechanisms for telecoms, broadcasting, and computing becoming obsolete. Spam, viruses, worms: broader issues of widespread internet use. Exclusive right to use, display, distribute or copy a creative work or to allow someone else. To qualify, a work must be original, and xed in an identi able and more or less permanent.