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Leveson’s lasting effect on press-police relations
Four years after the publication of the Leveson report, and shortly after the recognition of IMPRESS as an approved regulator , the UK government has launched a new consultation into two issues of press regulation. The consultation invites views both on section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, and on whether Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry, which […]
Wanted: evidence base to underpin a children’s rights-based implementation of the GDPR
On 14 October 2016 a group of experts from various backgrounds joined a round table organised by LSE’s Media Policy Project, the UK Council for Child Internet Safety’s Evidence Group, the Centre for Digital Democracy and the School of Communication at American University, in order to discuss the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on children and young people. […]
Decoding the GDPR and its implications for UK children
On 14 October 2016 the Media Policy Project hosted a round-table meeting at the LSE to discuss the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on children. Pascal Crowe, postgraduate student at the LSE, attended the meeting and produced a report detailing the discussion. The GDPR, which comes into effect in 2018, will have far reaching implications on children’s use […]
IMPRESS vs IPSO: A chasm, not a cigarette paper
Last week, the Press Recognition Panel recognised IMPRESS as an approved regulator under the conditions set out in the Royal Charter, with potentially wide-reaching implications for the UK press, including those already regulated by IPSO. Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, argues that there is a world of difference between the two regulators that publishers have […]
When parents choose ‘screen time’ – Real lives behind the new AAP guidelines
Alicia Blum-Ross discusses how the newly revised ‘screen time’ recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are actively trying to address the diversity of parents, but the conversation around ‘screen time’ still lacks counterbalance to the negative messages parents often receive about digital media. She argues that research findings from the Parenting for a Digital Future project tell a more nuanced story of digital technologies […]

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