360 research outputs found
After net neutrality
No full textVictor Pickard, Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, examines the historic June 2016 net neutrality ruling in the United States and asks whether net neutrality is now threatened by corporate capture
After Net Neutrality
No full textIn June 2016, a US court upheld net neutrality rules in the US, in a victory for public interest and grassroots movements against corporate interests. Victor Pickard, Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, examines June’s historic ruling and asks whether net neutrality is now threatened by corporate capture
America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform
No full textThis contribution is a recording of the CAMRI research seminar held at the University of Westminster on November 19, 2014, in which Victor Pickard presented his book "America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform": http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/american-government-politics-and-policy/americas-battle-media-democracy-triumph-corporate-libertarianism-and-future-media-reform
Why do American media have so few public interest regulations? How did the American media system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse?
By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in the 1940s, Victor Pickard explains how this happened and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system’s historical roots and normative foundations. His book charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. As much about the present and future as it is about the past, the book proposes policies for remaking media based on democratic values for the digital age.
Victor Pickard is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he taught media studies at NYU and the University of Virginia, and he worked on media policy in Washington, D.C. as a Senior Research Fellow at the media reform organization Free Press, the public policy think tank the New America Foundation, and Congresswoman Diane Watson’s office.
He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the history and political economy of media institutions and media reform activism. His op-eds on media policy debates and the future of journalism have appeared in news outlets like The Guardian, The Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the editor (with Robert McChesney) of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights, and the author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy. He tweets at @VWPickard
The US stands as a cautionary tale for what happens when a media system is dominated by market values
No full textWhile America’s media system is atypical, understanding its weaknesses may offer important implications for the future of public media like the BBC. Victor Pickard discusses the structural problems facing the American media and the corporate libertarian ideology that holds them in place. He argues that until corporate libertarianism is dismantled, it is difficult to achieve an effective “media democracy” which protects collective rights held by publics, audiences, and communities over the individual rights of corporations
The US stands as a cautionary tale for what happens when a media system is dominated by market values
No full textWhile America’s media system is atypical, understanding its weaknesses may offer important implications for the future of public media like the BBC in the UK. Victor Pickard discusses the structural problems facing the American media and the corporate libertarian ideology that holds them in place. He argues that until corporate libertarianism is dismantled, it is difficult to achieve an effective “media democracy” which protects collective rights held by publics, audiences, and communities over the individual rights of corporations
sj-docx-1-ijpp-10.1177_19401612211060255 - Supplemental material for Funding Democracy: Public Media and Democratic Health in 33 Countries
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ijpp-10.1177_19401612211060255 for Funding Democracy: Public Media and Democratic Health in 33 Countries by Timothy Neff and Victor Pickard in The International Journal of Press/Politics</p
America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform. By Victor Pickard. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 247p. 29.99 paper.
No full textAmerica's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform. By Pickard Victor . New York, NY : Cambridge University Press , 2015. 247p. 29.99 paper. Pickard examines the history of media regulations in the United States. Pickard provides a rich detailing of the policymakers, activists, and debates that drove media policy for the last hundred years. The great value of this work lies not just in its consideration of enacted policies, but also in its consideration of the many policy alternatives not taken, and the arguments for and against those forsaken alternatives
Theater review of a Maine State Music Theatre production of Victor/Victoria, w
No full textTheater review of a Maine State Music Theatre production of Victor/Victoria, which is being presented at Bowoin College\u27s Pickard Theatre in Brunswick
Media activism in the digital age
No full textThe growing subfield of media activism studies has gained wide attention in recent years, but little consensus exists regarding its central questions and concerns. This book begins to chart an evolving research agenda by providing a cross-section of provocative work in this area. Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang have assembled essays by leading scholars and activists to provide case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions during different historical periods and at local, national, and global levels. Looking at the underlying theories, histories, politics, ideologies, tactics, strategies and aesthetics, the book takes an expansive view of media activism. It explores how varieties of activism are mediated through communication technologies, how activists deploy strategies for changing the structures of media systems, and how governments and corporations seek to police media activism. From memes to zines, hacktivism to artivism, this volume considers activist practices involving both older kinds of media and newer digital, social, and network-based forms. The book captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an invaluable guide to a vibrant and evolving field of researc
After net neutrality a new deal for the digital age
No full textA provocative analysis of net neutrality and a call to democratize online communication This short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a more equitable framework for regulating access to the internet. Pickard and Berman argue that we should not see internet service as a commodity but as a public good necessary for sustaining democratic society in the twenty-first century. They aim to reframe the threat to net neutrality as more than a conflict between digital leviathans like Google and internet service providers like Comcast but as part of a much wider project to commercialize the public sphere and undermine the free speech essential for democracy. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the key concepts underpinning the net neutrality battle and rallying points for future action to democratize online communicatio
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