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Plurality and Media Power: new policy approaches to protecting the public interest in the 21st century

多元化与媒体力量：21世纪保护公共利益的新政策方法

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K002864/1
负责人：
Steven Barnett
金额：
$ 22.42万
依托单位：
University of Westminster
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK002864%2F1
关键词：
Plurality Media Power new policy

项目摘要

In most mature democracies around the world, preserving media plurality has become a major political and regulatory issue. As powerful media enterprises seek to consolidate in a hostile economic environment, governments are struggling to prevent too much media power becoming concentrated in too few hands. At risk is the diversity of voice and editorial output which are the lifeblood of a healthy democracy.In the UK over the last 2 years, we have seen vivid examples of this accretion of corporate power, the apparent unwillingness (or inability) of policy-makers to intervene, and the failure of existing policy and regulatory regimes to protect the public interest. Evidence to the Leveson Inquiry has provided abundant testimony of the problems being posed.This project will address these issues at one of the most crucial junctures of policy-making in recent political history. Publication of the Leveson report in Autumn 2012 will be followed by a 2-3 year legislative process which will include major policy debates on a new framework for media plurality. Beyond that, there will be implications for how this framework will operate in the longer term.The research is designed to promote more effective, more ambitious and more citizen-focussed policies in this area, and therefore to animate and inform current policy thinking as well as the policy and regulatory environment which will follow. The proposed Research Fellow, Prof Steven Barnett, has conducted research in this area for over 20 years, and has advised ministers and Parliamentary committees. Because of his immersion in the policy process, he is well acquainted at the highest levels with all the key political, industrial and regulatory figures.Through a series of interviews, seminars and events aimed at key stakeholders, including groups who are not traditionally part of the policy conversation, this project will generate new and innovative ideas and will contribute to a broadening agenda around media plurality which will feed into the legislative process.The key objectives are threefold. First, to assess different approaches to defining and measuring plurality, and the challenges posed by new and convergent media; second, to examine the drawbacks of the current policy regime, and to propose ideas for a more robust policy framework; third, to evaluate new and existing ideas for structural initiatives or solutions which might exploit new media opportunities to promote plurality.Research will be conducted in three ways. First, it will analyse the wealth of valuable information and ideas in written and oral submissions to the Leveson Inquiry. Second, interviews will be held with 12 leading political, regulatory and industry figures involved in recent policy debates around plurality and the public interest. Third, a series of six seminars will be convened, including one in Scotland, one in Wales, and one including European experts in the area. In each one, a group of around 20 academics, regulators, politicians, policy-makers and representatives of civil society will address the key research questions and respond to ideas generated during the first two stages.Results of the research will be disseminated through a planned series of networking events as well as through two books, conferences and a dedicated website. Events will be directed at key politicians and policy-makers such as special advisers, senior civil servants and regulators; media industry executives and umbrella groups; civil society groups; and academics from media, law and politics.As well as proceeds from the seminars and networking events, outputs will include an 80,000 word monograph (already commissioned), conference papers, and an edited collection of essays. The project will involve a part-time post-doctoral Research Assistant who will be fully involved in the seminars and networking events, will co-author conference papers, and will assist in producing the edited collection.

在世界上大多数成熟的民主国家，保护媒体多元化已成为一个重大的政治和监管问题。随着强大的媒体企业在不利的经济环境中寻求整合，各国政府正在努力防止太多的媒体权力集中在太少的人手中。面临风险的是声音和编辑输出的多样性，这是一个健康的民主国家的命脉。在过去两年里，我们在英国看到了这种企业权力增长的生动例子，政策制定者显然不愿(或没有能力)干预，以及现有政策和监管制度未能保护公共利益。莱韦森调查的证据为提出的问题提供了充分的证据。该项目将在近代政治史上决策的最关键时刻之一处理这些问题。在2012年秋季发表莱韦森报告之后，将进行为期2-3年的立法程序，其中将包括关于新的媒体多元化框架的重大政策辩论。这项研究旨在推动这方面更有效、更具野心和更以市民为本的政策，从而启发和启发现时的政策思维，以及未来的政策和监管环境。拟议的研究员史蒂文·巴尼特教授在这一领域进行了20多年的研究，并为部长和议会委员会提供建议。由于他沉浸在政策过程中，他在最高层熟悉所有关键的政治、工业和监管人物。通过一系列针对关键利益相关者的采访、研讨会和活动，包括传统上不参与政策对话的群体，这个项目将产生新的创新想法，并将有助于扩大围绕媒体多元化的议程，这将有助于立法进程。主要目标有三个。第一，评估定义和衡量多元化的不同方法，以及新的和融合的媒体带来的挑战；第二，审查现行政策制度的缺陷，并就更强有力的政策框架提出建议；第三，评估可能利用新媒体机会促进多元化的结构性倡议或解决方案的新想法和现有想法。首先，它将分析莱韦森调查书面和口头提交的大量有价值的信息和想法。其次，在最近围绕多元化和公共利益的政策辩论中，将采访12位政界、监管界和业界的主要人物。第三，将召开一系列六场研讨会，其中一场在苏格兰，一场在威尔士，一场包括该领域的欧洲专家。每一次会议将有大约20名学者、监管者、政界人士、决策者和民间社会代表参加，讨论主要的研究问题并回应在头两个阶段提出的想法，研究结果将通过计划中的一系列网络活动以及通过两本书、会议和一个专门的网站传播。活动将面向主要政治家和政策制定者，如特别顾问、高级公务员和监管者；媒体业行政人员和伞形团体；民间社会团体；以及来自媒体、法律和政治的学者。除了研讨会和联网活动的收益外，产出还将包括一本8万字的专著(已委托)、会议论文和编辑后的论文集。该项目将包括一名兼职博士后研究助理，他将全面参与研讨会和联网活动，将与他人共同撰写会议论文，并将协助编写编辑后的文集。