By Charlotte Jones, Paige Hastings, Luke Hawker &

Melisa Muharrem

PIPA Protect Intellectual Property

Act

SOPAStop Online Piracy Act

Legislation in the US

House of

Representatives

Targets Copyright

Laws

Harsh penalties

Supported by..

Major Movie Studios

TV networks

Book PublishersISP‟s

Against..

Why is it wanted?

Professor Clay Shirky,

“The 20th century was a great time to be a media company”

“scarcity”

“Technologies moved on, as technologies do.”

“we also like to produce, and we like to share”

According to the effects theory:

The Media ----- The Message ------ The Masses

2011:

The Media

The Masses

The Internet

„regain the control‟

Why do America want to

regulate? Chicago School of Regulation

1.Law

2. Social Norms

3. Market

4. Architecture

Architecture – We now how the ability to

download, file share, interact, copy.

Market – We are accustomed to not paying

for content anymore, especially the younger

generation.

Social Norms – It has become socially

acceptable to download, file share, interact,

copy.

Law – Now the American government

wants to step in now the other forms of

regulation have not worked.

What does this

constitute for

Personal Freedom?

Imperialism

Neo-imperialism

„Dominance of some nations over others by means of unequal

conditions of economic exchange.‟

Cultural imperialism

„Countries imposed their cultural values on other nations.‟

“I‟d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony / I‟d like to buy

you all a coke, to keep it company.”

Herbert Schiller

„society is brought into the modern world…

…attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed…

…the values and structures of the dominant center‟

„developing towards the liberal free.‟

Liberal account of History

„The people in control are an enemy of

media freedom.‟

„The internet is a communication medium…‟

„…In chosen time, on a global scale. The internet is above all else, a cultural creation.‟

Sir Tim Berners-lee.

Hippy Counter culture

1960‟s

Technological Determinist

…the younger generation now expect content for free…

…This innovation in technology has completely altered the way we

live our lives…

...innovation in technology drives social change…

…It has also changed the way many of the media industries do

things…

Normalisation

„This change has normalised illegal

downloading and sharing‟

Lee Siegel “I despise Wikipedia, I loath

Wikipedia, I‟m appalled by Wikipedia. I use

it throughout the day.”

These legislations will not change our „real world‟ freedom.

The Online Disinhibition effect

Anonymity

London Riots

You wouldn‟t steel from a shop

„…online as people feel it‟s a virtual and therefore an unreal

world.‟

Cultural Hierarchies

Pierre Bourdieu

„Culture provides the very grounds for human communication and interaction;

it is also a source of domination.‟

„All symbolic systems‟ „help establish and maintain social hierarchies.‟ „Culture

also mediates practices by connecting individuals and groups to

institutionalized hierarchies.‟

Raymond Williams

„In a market driven system control of new technology will

be dominated by large media conglomerates.‟

„cultural capital, hierarchies, and distinction‟

Cookies

Limit our free choice

Channeling

Fair..?

How?

Remove any links that direct to

websites that contain illegal content.

Maybe the Internet is just to vast to control.

„We should police the Internet, but many high tech crime

officers believe this is impossible”

“When we shut down one website, two more pop up.”

Balance the practical

with the

Ideological…

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