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A Governance Perspective Technologies in Digital Media Regulation 1 Christian Katzenbach Workshop „Broadcasting in the Post-Broadcasting Era“ University of Tampere March 29, 2014

Technologies in Digital Media Regulation. A Governance Perspective

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A Governance Perspective

Technologies in Digital Media Regulation

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Christian Katzenbach !

Workshop „Broadcasting in the Post-Broadcasting Era“

University of Tampere

March 29, 2014

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[.…] a politics deeply embedded not just within the institutions that design and distribute technologies and services, but within

the technology itself, as software products and information networks both prescribe and proscribe, configuring suppliers

and users, containing and constraining behaviour, and embodying in their algorithms and their gateways both the

normative and the seductive.!!

Mansell /Silverstone, 1996

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Technologies in Media Regulation

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Technologies in Media Regulation

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What is Governance, anyways?

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Governance (Structure): Pluralization of Actors

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transnationalself-/co-regulationtransnationalself-/co-regulation

!!!Pluralization of Actors !• Multiple Fora und Policy Organizations • Heterogenous Actors • Heterogenous Intentions

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Puppis 2010

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Governance (Process): De-Centering Coordination

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!!!Pluralization of Mechanisms !!!

Discourse

Values

Competition

Legislation

Norms

Expertise

Knowledge

Institutions

Coordination

Legitimation

Markets

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Governance: Summary

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!!Governance Research undermines notion of… !• Rule-Making as Steering and of… • Rule-Making as happening exclusively in Policy Organizations !

—> De-centered and Heterogenous Governance Arrangements

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From Governance as Regulation to Governance as (reflexive) Coordination

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Governance: Changing the Perspective

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Social Order

Regulation / Steering

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Governance: Changing the Perspective

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Social Order

Regulation / Steering

Coordination

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Governance with Sociological Neo-Insitutionalism

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Regulative Pillar Institutions as sanction-based Regulations

!Normative Pillar Institutions as normative

Expectations

!Cultural-Cognitive Pillar Institutionen as cultural-cognitive Patterns

!+ Material Dimension Technological and Material

Manifestation of Institutions

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Technologies as Institutions?

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Impacts of Technology on social behaviour and sectoral change1 Political and Social Construction of

Technology2‣ Technology in Use!

‣ Meaning and Usage are ascribed, not determined!‣ Domestication

‣ Technology Development!‣ „Leitbilder“!‣ Standardisation!‣ Regulation

‣ Technology as functional equivalent!‣ Durkheim‘s social facts!‣ Hardened social action and structured

‣ Technology is Society made durable

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Picture: clemensfranz (CC By-SA 3.0)

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Side-path: Technologies as Institutions?

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Impacts of Technology on social behaviour and sectoral change1 Political and Social Construction of

Technology2‣ Technology in Use!

‣ Meaning and Usage are ascribed, not determined!‣ Domestication

‣ Technology Development!‣ „Leitbilder“!‣ Standardisation!‣ Regulation

‣ Technology as functional equivalent!‣ Durkheim‘s social facts!‣ Hardened social action and structured

‣ Technology is Society made durable

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Governance with Sociological Neo-Insitutionalism

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Regulative Pillar Institutions as sanction-based Regulations

!Normative Pillar Institutions as normative

Expectations

!Cultural-Cognitive Pillar Institutionen as cultural-cognitive Patterns

!+ Material Dimension Technological and Material

Manifestation of Institutions

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Regulation (+ incl. Private ordering) !!

(informal) Norms and Practises !

Discourses and Framings !

!Governance and Technology

4 Research Perspectives

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Regulative Pillar Institutions as sanction-based Regulations

!Normative Pillar Institutions as normative

Expectations

!Cultural-Cognitive Pillar Institutionen as cultural-cognitive Patterns

!+ Material Dimension Technological and Material

Manifestation of Institutions

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Conclusion:

Technologies as Institutions in Media Regulation?

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Technologies embody norms, values and practises

Technologies frame interactions and expectations

Technologies as integrated part of the fabric of the social

Technologies in regulatory constellations

Technologies, interpretative flexibility and the „best“ solution

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