Democracy Extended or Imperilled by Technology? How British, Canadian, and Australian parliamentarians’ changing conceptions of the past and future transformed television regulation, 1950-1980 KU Leuven
Politics today faces pressure to regulate digital technologies that threaten democracy. However, the urgency for politicians worldwide to regulate media is not new, as communication has always constituted the backbone of democracy. This project investigates how politicians’ changing engagement with the past and future of communication technology affected their regulation of television. It compares debate interventions and voting records of ...