Project lead: Damian Tambini
The Digital Intermediaries Project investigates issues of media pluralism and privacy within the context of media convergence. Increasingly influential gatekeepers such as search engines, social networks and app stores are the route through which citizens access information and as such play a significant role in determining what users see or not. In collaboration with at the Toulouse School of Economics, there are two strands to the research project:
A law and public policy stream to be conducted at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. This will focus on questions related to the rights and values which need to be preserved within the current converged environment and explore whether existing institutional and legal framework are appropriate for the changing media ecology in key areas such as media plurality, freedom of expression and privacy.
Another stream analysing the underlying economic processes will be conducted at the Institut d’Economie Industrielle. This will focus on explaining the role and function o