The article considers the key media policy objective of enhancing cultural diversity and explores one of the possible paths towards it in the digital media space – namely, by addressing the new intermediaries that have an increasingly critical role in contemporary media experiences. It...

The article provides a comparison between the conventional venues of cultural policy-making, such as the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the newly emerged fora of global Internet governance. It juxtaposes the different...

The article explores legal adaptation in the domain of digital trade. It identifies and contextualises different and novel rules when compared to the baseline of the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The article maps the developments in free trade agreements (FTAs) and pays particular...

The chapter seeks to trace developments in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) with regard to the telecommunications and the media services sectors by looking at a few recent and advanced trade deals of the United States and the European Union respectively. It examines in particular the...

The development of new digital technologies has resulted in significant transformations in daily life, from the arrival of online shopping to more fundamental changes in the ways we work and communicate. Many of these changes raise questions that transcend market access and liberalisation and...

The article seeks a re-conceptualization of the global digital divide debate. It critically explores the predominant notion, its evolution and measurement, as well as the policies that have been advanced to bridge the digital divide. Acknowledging the complexity of this inequality, the article...

Digital technologies have had and continue to have profound effects on societal life. The transformations range from the trivial to the momentous – from online shopping, through the emergence of global value chains, to the very ways we work and communicate, create, distribute and access...