The authors review recent scholarly and policy initiatives in respect of media pluralism and argue that contradictions between policy objectives, in analytical approaches and deficiencies in some established methodologies mean that robust conclusions have been hard to secure. They argue that...

Discussion of Internet governance has been shaped by three myths; that the market can decide, that the Internet is different to 'legacy' media, and that national governance is unimportant. This paper challenges these three myths through an examination of Internet governance in the UK in 2003/4...

The European institutions are currently debating the desirability of imposing restrictions on the way in which internet service providers (ISPs) in the EU can manage their networks and develop their offerings, under the broad heading of 'network neutrality'. In our opinion, so far, the need for...