Governance of news aggregators’ practices across five emblematic cases: Policy regimes between normative acceptance and resistance

IF 3 3区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Information Society Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1080/01972243.2022.2076180

S. Ganter

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Abstract

Abstract During the 2005–2015 decade, news publishers, governments, and digital news aggregators re-negotiated the parameters of control over the circulation of digital content. Using governance and regime theory, we analyze five emblematic cases—Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom—of early governance reactions to news aggregators’ practices and identify different types of strategies: (1) discursive resistance; (2) controlled drop-out; (3) one-time payments; (4) opt-in ancillary copyright law; and (5) strict ancillary copyright law. Through contextualizing and triangulating, we explain the nuanced ways in which legacy actors struggled to find adequate strategies to maintain their definitional power when technology companies first manifested their interest in the news sector. The findings indicate a link between the strength of policy regimes that sustained copyright as a normative monopoly and shifts in normative interpretations. With that, we highlight the importance of considering policy regimes’ constituencies as an explanatory dimension when studying change and maintenance in media governance.

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五个典型案例中新闻聚合者实践的治理:规范接受与抵制之间的政策制度

在2005-2015年的十年中，新闻出版商、政府和数字新闻聚合器重新协商了数字内容流通控制的参数。运用治理和制度理论，我们分析了巴西、法国、德国、西班牙和英国五个典型的早期治理对新闻聚合器实践的反应，并确定了不同类型的策略:(1)话语抵抗;(2)可控退出;(三)一次性支付;(4)选择辅助著作权法;(5)严格的辅助著作权法。通过情境化和三角化，我们解释了当科技公司首次表现出对新闻行业的兴趣时，传统参与者如何努力寻找适当的策略来维持其定义权力的微妙方式。研究结果表明，维持版权作为规范性垄断的政策制度的力度与规范性解释的转变之间存在联系。因此，我们强调在研究媒体治理的变化和维持时，将政策制度的选区作为一个解释维度的重要性。

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期刊介绍： The Information Society is a multidisciplinary journal intended to answer questions about the Information Age. It provides a forum for thoughtful commentary and discussion of significant topics in the world of information, such as transborder data flow, regulatory issues, the impact of the information industry, information as a determinant of public and private organizational performance, and information and the sovereignty of the public and private organizational performance, and information and the sovereignty of the public. Its papers analyze information policy issues affecting society. Because of the journal"s international perspective, it will have worldwide appeal to scientists and policymakers in government, education, and industry.