The Future of Internet Policy
This special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication, co-edited by Peter Decherney and Victor Pickard, explores the future of internet policy. The featured articles suggest a maturing field in which authors take account of the long history of media policy to evaluate the current state of the internet and project future directions.
Peter Decherney, the co-Editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication states, “All of the short essays in this volume look past the rhetoric of technological determinism and reliance on the natural logic of the market to consider the power of law and policy to steer new media in one direction or another. Many of the essays look backwards through history or outwards across national borders. They all look forward to the way today’s policies will shape the future of the internet and society.
Several of the essays in this issue take up the revelations that followed Edward Snowden’s mass disclosure of classified documents in 2013, which revealed the U.S. National Security Agency’s systematic and longstanding program of monitoring global communications.
Other contributions consider different countries’ varying approaches to regulating the proliferation of online communication, and still other contributions assess the current state of digital technology. They all call for policy interventions to solve market failures.”
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