Jon Festinger
Class 12 Slides
Todays slides…. And in the sometimes “life imitates school” category, we have the podcast in the article below which arrived in my inbox just around halfway through class. Jon
Course Evaluations
To the extent possible, please bring your laptops to class tomorrow as course evaluations will take up the first 15 minutes of the class. If you want to do the evaluations in advance they are available at: https://eval.ctlt.ubc.ca/law You will be able to complete evaluations until 11:59 pm on Sunday, April 9. Thanks, Jon
News of the Week; March 22, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY The Netflix Effect?: Foreign Sources Outspend Canadian Broadcasters and Distributors for English TV Production (Michael Geist) Court of Appeals Rules that Over-the-Top Video Service is Not a Cable System Entitled to Statutory License to Retransmit TV Station Programming Hope fades for cheap TV-over-Internet as FilmOn loses copyright fight: TV networks’ […]
Class 11 Slides
For the first time ever my slides maxed over the upload limit even when “Reduce File Size…” was applied maximally. So they had to be split into two parts. First “Logistics & News of the Week” and then the main piece. Here they are… Jon
News of the Week; March 15, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY For the first time, more people subscribe to Netflix than have DVR: The streaming service has dramatically changed how Americans watch TV. The Cord Cutting The Cable Industry Says Isn’t Happening, Keeps Happening USAToday Latest News Outlet To Completely Miss The Point Of Cord Cutting New York City Sues Verizon […]
Class 10 Slides
Here are the slides from todays class. They do include the results of last weeks group exercise. Jon
News of the Week; March 8, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda (Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts & Ethan Zuckerman) I Tried Trump’s Media Diet. Now Nothing Surprises Me Anymore Trump’s FCC chairman says he won’t just do what Trump tells him to: Ajit Pai met with Trump Monday but won’t say […]
Draft Abstract for ‘Trusting Ourselves: Freedom of Thought in Virtual Reality’
As promised in class today below you will find a draft abstract for a talk that I will be giving in the U.K. on April 6. Also have included a link to the conferences’ website on which you can find the current draft programme. No obligation on anyone’s part, but all questions and comments are […]
Please bring your Red & Black books tomorrow
We are going to do a bit of in-class group work tomorrow. To the extent as many people in the class as see this bring their McCarthy Tetrault Red (Canadian Broadcasting Regulatory Handbook) & Black (Canadian Telecommunications Regulatory Handbook) texts, please do. They will be a useful reference tool for the exercise. I will have […]
