Media & Communications - About

Media and communications are changing rapidly: long-standing policy agreements and assumptions are being challenged by large-scale industry restructuring, new and competing information technologies, and shifts in policy and regulation.

This program examines these contemporary transformations from different social, legal and public policy perspectives.

Research topics include:

• the "digital divide" –public access to information and communications infrastructure
• the transition to digital broadcasting
• cultural industries and international trade policy
• intellectual property and information policy
• the history of old and new media
• the uses of information technology in higher education.