Doug Lichtman
Colleges / Universities: UCLA
Media and Content
Description: The easy availability of information on the Internet may lead to the commoditization of content. However, if content is free or low cost, it may be difficult for those who produce it (like journalists) to earn a living. Economists and other scholars examine this tension and suggest various solutions.
Media and Content Scholars
Helen Nissenbaum
Colleges / Universities: Cornell University
James Grimmelmann
Colleges / Universities: Cornell University
Recent Media and Content Blog Posts
Recent Media and Content Academic Article Summaries
Quotes in the News
Goldman, E. (2022, May 20). Washington Examiner.“A big flood of lawsuits is expected against the social media platforms if HB 20 remains in effect. The Texas plaintiff lawyers will be pretty fired up.”
Eric Goldman
TAP Scholar
Co-Director, Santa Clara High Tech Law Institute
Professor of Law
School of Law
Santa Clara University
Goldman, E. (2022, May 18). NPR Technology.“How much knowledge is enough? Generally simply knowing people are doing something bad on a service is not enough knowledge.”
Eric Goldman
TAP Scholar
Co-Director, Santa Clara High Tech Law Institute
Professor of Law
School of Law
Santa Clara University
Vaidhyanathan, S. (2022, April 15). NBC News.“He's never been in this business. He’s been in a scattershot of businesses that have nothing to do with media or communication.”
Siva Vaidhyanathan
TAP Scholar
Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies
Department of Media Studies
University of Virginia
Goldman, E. (2022, April 15). The New York Times.[Twitter] can turn the content moderation up and please liberals or turn it down and please conservatives and libertarians, but “there’s no place on that slider that will make all the partisans happy.”
Eric Goldman
TAP Scholar
Co-Director, Santa Clara High Tech Law Institute
Professor of Law
School of Law
Santa Clara University
Calo, M. (2022, January 19). The New York Times.“It’s time to stop pretending like this is so different from other types of societal harms”
M. Ryan Calo
TAP Scholar
Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor
School of Law
University of Washington
