Globalisation and the Re-emergence of the Regulatory State

Abstract

Globalisation broadly refers to the spread and interconnection of production, communication and technologies across the globe. Media and communications have been drivers in the new globalised environment characterised by free trade and free flow of information, technological advancements and technologically mediated communication and new institutional arrangements. The complexity of the media networks and communications companies involved in the global scene and the speed of their expansion on an international scale is unprecedented. This has put pressure on the existing regulatory framework which is perceived to be inadequate to address issues in a fast-moving globalised world. One such issue concerns the shift in state sovereignty to the international level in media regulation resulting from increased trade and new technologies. According to Raboy (2007), media issues are increasingly transnational, and hence require international interventions and fresh regulatory mechanisms of various types to shape them and drive their development and social responsibilities. Unlike the national media systems where the rules governing the media were more straightforward in general terms (there are cases, especially in the Mediterranean countries where media regulation has been unclear), the emergence of a global media system brings with it increasing calls to apply new rules or reform the existing ones. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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