Communications infrastructure regulation and the distribution of control over content

Yochai Benkler

Telecommunications Policy, 1998, vol. 22, issue 3, 183-196

Abstract: Convergence renders problematic continueud application of traditional concepts like universal and public service to address democratic values through communications regulation. The paper proposes an alternative apporach based on assessing the impact of regulatory choices affecting communications infrastructure on social distribution of communicative capacitites. It offers an approach to developing descriptive models to assess how law, in technological and organizational context, concentrates or distributes control over production and exchange of information in society. Normatively, it suggests how these distributive effects on the flow of information in society affect both individual autonomy and public discourse.

Date: 1998
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