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This open access book presents the collectively authored Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto and accompanying materials. The Manifesto can be signed by visiting http://bit.ly/signPSManifesto The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. They have created a communications landscape overwhelmed by surveillance, advertising, fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and algorithmic politics. Commercial Internet platforms have harmed citizens, users, everyday life, and society. Democracy and digital democracy require Public Service Media. A democracy-enhancing Internet requires Public Service Media becoming Public Service Internet platforms – an Internet of the public, by the public, and for the public; an Internet that advances instead of threatens democracy and the public sphere. The Public Service Internet is based on Internet platforms operated by a variety of Public Service Media, taking the public service remit into the digital age. The Public Service Internet provides opportunities for public debate, participation, and the advancement of social cohesion. Accompanying the Manifesto are materials that informed its creation: Christian Fuchs' report of the results of the Public Service Media/Internet Survey, the written version of Graham Murdock's online talk on public service media today, and a summary of an ecomitee.com discussion of the Manifesto's foundations. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Christian Fuchs and Klaus Unterberger Chapter 2: The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto Chapter 3: The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Utopias Survey Report Christian Fuchs Chapter 4: Public Service Media for Critical Times: Connectivity, Climate, and Corona Graham Murdock Chapter 5: The Future of Public Service Media and the Internet Alessandro D'Arma, Christian Fuchs, Minna Horowitz and Klaus Unterberger

AbstractThe article addresses the main theory of the political public sphere generally, and the role of the Internet and Internet‐based media in the theory specifically. It first reviews briefly the initial social research on the Internet in the 1990s concerning political participation. After a presentation of Jürgen Habermas' theory of the contemporary public sphere, it proceeds to discuss the main problems concerning the Internet as a platform or infrastructure for public debate: segmentation and concentration. It argues that a general conclusion is that the public sphere differentiates and become more complex. A key task for future research, it argues, is to investigate the complex connections between Internet publics and mass media publics.

The growth and health of our digital economies and societies depend on the core protocols and infrastructure of the Internet. This technical and logical substructure of our digital existence is now in need of protection against unwarranted interference in order to sustain the growth and the integrity of the global Internet. The Internet's key protocols and infrastructure can be considered a global public good that provides benefits to everyone in the world. Countering the growing state interference with this 'public core of the Internet' requires a new international agenda for Internet governance that departs from the notion of a global public good. Core ingredients of this strategy are: - To establish and disseminate an international norm stipulating that the Internet's public core - its main protocols and infrastructure- should be considered a neutral zone, safeguarded against unwarranted intervention by governments. - To advocate efforts to clearly differentiate at the national and international level between Internet security (security of the Internet infrastructure) and national security (security through the Internet). - To broaden the arena for cyber diplomacy to include new coalitions of states (including the so called 'swing states') and private companies, including the large Internet companies as well as Internet intermediaries such as Internet Service Providers.

Momentous social events result from the sum of micro-level changes in daily individual life, and by observing and fusing publicly available data, such as web searches and other internet traffic, it is possible to anticipate events such as disease outbreaks. However, this ability is not without risks, and public concern about the possible consequences of improper use of this technology cannot be ignored. Opportunities for open discussion and democratic scrutiny are required.This book has its origins in the workshop Internet-Based Intelligence for Public Health Emergencies and Disease Outbreak

AbstractThis article looks forward, locating debates on public service broadcasting firmly within contemporary and future debates about technology regulation. Public service broadcasting has been a dominant theme in UK media policy since the creation of the BBC in 1922, aimed at delivering positive democratic and cultural outcomes. However, despite this rich heritage, and amidst widespread concerns about the social and democratic implications of 'digital dominance', the public service mission has failed fully to transcend its broadcasting origins and provide a model for a 'public service internet'. The article reviews the relationship between the for‐profit business models of the dominant technology platforms and potential civic and individual harms, past and failed attempts to reimagine 'public service' institutions in a digital age and identifies opportunities for scholars, activists and policy makers to reimagine public service alternatives for a platform society.

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Considers the usefulness of postmodern theories to an analysis of the relation of the Internet to democracy. It is suggested that the primary difficulties in employing such theories is the inadequate development of a fully postmodern theory of politics & the persistence of democracy, a modern category, as a dominant political norm & ideal. However, despite their limitations, postmodern theories are an excellent starting point for examining cyberdemocracy, if only because the Internet deeply troubles basic assumptions of older positions. One path toward developing a postmodern theory of cyberdemocracy may be developed through the concept of the public sphere. Jurgen Habermas's (1989) model of the public sphere is rejected in favor of a model that stresses its contentious, gender, fractured nature. Viewed in this manner, the public sphere might be invigorated by the Internet because this technology radically decenters political speech &, thus, opens the possibility of greater cultural negotiation & conflict. The case of gender in Internet communication is discussed as an example of this process. It is concluded that, because the Internet reconfigures the practice of self-constitution in the public sphere, it also allows the reconfiguration of the political itself. 34 References. D. Ryfe

AbstractIn January 2021, the editorial team of Policy & Internet changed from the Oxford Internet Institute to the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. This article invites all the past and current editors to contribute to the future directions and discussion of internet and public policy. It is collection of six contributions covering the trajectory of the internet policy research agenda, platform power in the digital economy, algorithms and the need for transparency, media diversity and platform regulation, speech in the age of content moderation and age‐gating the internet. The collection of essays highlights the past 10 years of the journal and paints a clear trajectory for the next era of Policy & Internet.