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'Should the Internet be seen as an exciting mediem for cultural experimentation or merely as a new way of doing business?'
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'Should the Internet be seen as an exciting mediem for cultural experimentation or merely as a new way of doing business?' With the development of broadband Internet, connections and increasingly sophisticated means of compression, new media is radically reshaping our communication environment, however it is the product of two distinctive sets of technology. On the one hand 'old' media, from the age of print through broadcast and film have a long standing corporate tradition and are clearly regulated both in terms of issues of content and distribution. Issues of ownership, marketing and distribution are well understood and have decades of legal precedent demarcating boundaries. On the other hand 'new' media, focuses primarily on transformation from analogue to digital, are seen as too recent to have a well-established tradition of regulation and are too different from their predecessors to be easily regulated by older laws. The Internet is a social and economic...
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