Should ISPs Enforce Copyright? Dwayne Winseck Interviews Robin Mansell

Dwayne Winseck, professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, explains the informal arrangement in Canada related to ISP enfocement of copyrights and interviews LSE’s Robin Mansell about the very different UK situation

Study Shows Lack of Competition in Canada’s Mobile Wireless Markets

The Canadian Media Concentration Research Project recently released a report entitled Wireless in Canada: Recognizing the Problems and Approaching Solutions. Dwayne Winseck, the project’s director and Professor at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, shares the study’s findings. He also argues that how the Canadian government approaches wireless companies now will have lasting implications on access to and quality of its media, wireless, and Internet services

Growth and Upheaval in the Network Media Economy, 1984-2018

This report examines the development of the media economy over the past thirtyfour years. Since beginning this project nearly a decade ago, we have focused on as comprehensive as possible selection of the biggest telecoms, internet and media industries (based on revenue), including: mobile wireless and wireline telecoms; internet access; cable, satellite & IPTV; broadcast television, specialty and pay television services and over-the-internet video subscription and download services; radio; newspapers; magazines; music; internet advertising; social media; operating systems; browsers, etc. This year, we have made some fairly dramatic changes in terms of what we cover, and the breadth of our analysis. For the first time, this report takes some preliminary steps to capture a broader range of audiovisual media services that are delivered over the internet beyond online video subscription and download services and internet advertising, including: online gaming, app store and music downloads

A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel

This reply to "The Curious Absence of Economic Analysis at the Federal Communications Commission" (Faulhaber, Singer, & Urschel, 2017) makes three claims. First, we document the paper's undisclosed origins as a white paper commissioned by an advocacy group with deep ties to the telecommunications industry. Second, we describe two of the authors' active participation, on behalf of clients, in a range of contested issues before the FCC in recent years, none of which they disclose. Finally, our review of FCC workshops, roundtables, seminars, dockets and rulings—including during its landmark 2015 Open Internet Order and several blockbuster mergers and acquisitions—provides detailed evidence to refute the paper's core "curious absence" charge. The stakes could not be higher, we conclude, as the new FCC chair Ajit Pai has repeatedly referenced the paper to justify his rollback of FCC regulations—including, crucially, the common carriage/net neutrality rules so vigorously opposed by the paper's funders

Should ISPs enforce copyright? Dwayne Winseck interviewsRobin Mansell

Dwayne Winseck, professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, explains the informal arrangement in Canada related to ISP enfocement of copyrights and interviews LSE’s Robin Mansell about the very different UK situation

Media Economics: Missed Opportunities, Mischaracterizations

A heightened state of flux is now sweeping the media, creative, telecom and internet industries. In the United States Netflix recently, albeit briefly, surpassed Disney as the country’s largest media company by market capitalization. The just completed mega-merger between AT&T and Time Warner and another prospective one between Disney and 21st Century Fox (or potentially Comcast and 21st Century Fox) are presented as countering the threat posed by Netflix, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google to traditional film and TV businesses. Such developments highlight the issues of competition, market power, consumer welfare and industry evolution. In the latter context, visions of heightened competition, technical innovation and interactivity associated with digital distribution have been recurrent themes in industry analysis since before the US Telecommunications Act of 1996

Mobile Wireless in Canada: Recognizing the Problems and Approaching Solutions

The Canadian Media Concentration Research Project is releasing the final iteration of this report on the state of mobile wireless markets in Canada. The first draft was presented at a panel on “The State of Competition in Canada ’ s Telecommunications Sector ” at the International Institute of Communications (IIC)/Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) conference on November 17 and 18 th at the Ottawa Conference centre. W e we re delighted to offer our views and to debate the issue of wheth er mobile wireless markets in Canada are highly competitive or badly concentrated at the conferen c e . We arg u e in favour of the latter claim . This report offer s a fairly comprehensive, long -­‐ term body of data that places trends in Canada in a comparative i nternational context. It shows that Canada shares a similar condition with many, indeed, almost all countries that we have studied: high levels of concentration in mobile wireless markets. Canada is not unusual in this regard, and indeed no matter whether we look at things from the perspective of 19 countries , the 34 OECD countrie

Towards a new communication satellite regulatory regime is there communication equity in the global village?

Dept. of Communication Studies. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1989 .W558. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1989

Growth and Upheaval in the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2019

This report examines the development of the media economy over the past thirty-five years. Since beginning this proje