Net neutrality, the fairness doctrine, and the NRB: the tension between United States religious expr...

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Beteiligte: Montalbano, Kathryn (VerfasserIn)
veröffentlicht:
2018
Teil von: Medienpolitik, Informationspolitik, Medienrecht
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In: Media and Communication ; 6 (2018) 1 ; 5-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i1.1198
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: Medienpolitik, Informationspolitik, Medienrecht
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USA
Kollektion: SSOAR Social Science Open Access Repository
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This article analyzes the historical continuity between the opposition of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) to the Fairness Doctrine (1949) and to the contemporary Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Open Internet principle, net neutrality. These debates demonstrate how media policy discourse has shaped democratic ideals, including by designating whose voices are or are not included in broadcast and digital communication spaces. The discourse emerging from both media policy debates reveals that fears concerning cultural hegemony and the diversity of expression in the United States have intertwined with fears concerning the invasion of foreign ideologies. The article then considers the possibility of reconciling religious and secular discourse in the mediated public sphere.