COMM 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Icann, World Intellectual Property Organization, Commerce Clause

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 122
• Professor: Martha Fuentes- Bautista

Document Summary

Bottom line: thinking in a balanced way between economic goals and social goals we have as a society ! There is a public that must be served & needs must be met! Media plays a major role in public interest! When the allocation of goods or services thru the market is not ef cient > the state must step up! When it doesn"t meet the needs of everyone! Ex. broadband abilities are not universal (many western ma towns are not served as fairly), so the government has invested money in infrastructure to bring broadband over to the western areas that don"t receive it as clearly! Media regulation! and the enforcement of those laws! Media governance! which those rules are enforced and modi ed to govern social organizations and systems (ie. countries, cities, groups, institutions and the media)! Process by which authority is given to rulers, by which they make the rules, and by.