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Recherche : Media Power & Plurality (AHRC Research Fellowship Project)
"In most mature democracies around the world, preserving media plurality has become a major political regulatory issue. As powerful media enterprises seek to consolidate further in a hostile economic environment, governments are struggling to prevent too much media power accumulating in too few hands. At risk is the diversity of voices and editorial output which are the lifeblood of a healthy democracy and an informed citizenry. In the UK over the last two years, we have seen vivid examples of the 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 to the political, economic and regulatory problems being posed. Meanwhile, powerful online aggregators and social media groups – such Google and Facebook – raise new plurality questions about dominance through gatekeeping ; and new community-based journalism enterprises and foundation-funded initiatives raise important questions about funding, sustainability and different organisational models.
This website is part of a project based at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council which is aimed at addressing those policy issues at one of the most crucial junctures of policy making in recent political history. It will, we hope, become a forum for discussion about media plurality amongst regulators, policy makers and scholars, and a public space for anyone to showcase their own research, papers, written submissions or any other contribution to the debate.
The project, under the AHRC’s research fellowship scheme, is being led by Professor Steven Barnett. The research associate is Judith Townend.
We will be updating it regularly with our own work and with links to other research both nationally and internationally in this area. If you would like to submit a blogpost, a link to your own or any other research, or the text of any papers/articles you have already published, please contact j.townend@westminster.ac.uk."
http://www.mediaplurality.com/