When the issue of speakers’ rights of access arises in media regulation and policy contexts, the focus typically is on the concept of speakers’ rights of access “to the media,” or “to the press.” This right usually is premised on the audience’s need for access to diverse sources...

This paper examines the emerging global phenomenon of mobile leapfrogging in Internet access. Leapfrogging refers to the process in which new Internet users are obtaining access by mobile devices and are skipping the traditional means of access: personal computers. This leapfrogging of PC-based...

Technological changes are straining traditional institutionalized conceptualization of the television audience, while at the same time providing opportunities for alternative conceptual and analytical approaches. The result is a rare point in time in which the very nature of the audience...

Media scholars have only recently begun to recognize and investigate the importance of algorithms to a wide range of processes related to the production and consumption of media content. There have been few efforts thus far, though, to connect these developments to potentially relevant bodies of...

This paper explores relevant precedent for disinformation-related regulation in the U.S. media sector; and then considers whether the underlying rationale that justified such regulation is relevant to the social media context. Specifically, this paper considers whether the public trustee...