Codifying Cyberspace: Communications Self-Regulation in the Age of Internet Convergence

The book Codifying Cyberspace is the result of a three year European Commission funded study in self-regulation carried out by PCMLP.

Written by Danilo Leonardi, Chris Marsden and Damian Tambini, the book is published by Routledge.

Outline

Can the Internet regulate itself? Faced with a range of 'harms' and conflicts associated with the new media – from gambling to pornography – many governments have resisted the temptation to regulate, opting instead to encourage media providers to develop codes of conduct and technical measures to regulate themselves. Codifying Cyberspace looks at media self-regulation in practice, in a variety of countries. It also examines the problems of balancing private censorship against fundamental rights to freedom of expression and privacy for media users. This book is the first full-scale study of self-regulation and codes of conduct in these fast-moving new media sectors.