ABSTRACT

Apart from the developments in media policymaking mentioned in the previous sections, many changes have taken place in the domain to be discussed here: infrastructures. Politicians and other policymakers who are responsible for the media domain have not always recognised this. Usually, they regard digitalisation of infrastructures as something that only applied to colleagues responsible for telecommunications policy. The developments in this domain, however, form one of the most important reasons for the fact that traditional goals and instruments of media policymaking are being seriously challenged. That is why we have expanded on this in a special section of this booklet.