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Shaping the global communications milieu: The EU's influence on internet and telecommunications governance (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2010, April). Shaping the global communications milieu: The EU's influence on internet and telecommunications governance. Presented at GARNET (Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU ) conference ‘The European Union in International Affairs’, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels

This paper evaluates the EU’s influence in shaping the global governance for telecommunications and the Internet. Through analyzing EU behavior within an actorness framework, we demonstrate how the external opportunity structure and the EU’s internal... Read More about Shaping the global communications milieu: The EU's influence on internet and telecommunications governance.

Effective communications regulation in an era of convergence?: The case of premium rate telephony and television in the UK (2010)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2010). Effective communications regulation in an era of convergence?: The case of premium rate telephony and television in the UK. Convergence, 16(2), 217. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856509357684

This article explores recent problems with premium rate number service (PRS) use in UK participation TV, utilizing a regulatory convergence analytical framework. In 2003, the UK government created the communications convergence regulator, Ofcom, yet... Read More about Effective communications regulation in an era of convergence?: The case of premium rate telephony and television in the UK.

Governing information infrastructures and services in telecommunications (2010)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2010). Governing information infrastructures and services in telecommunications. Aslib Proceedings, 62(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531011015190

Purpose – Telecommunications comprises a vital component of information infrastructures and services, with a historically strong public interest dimension. For the best part of 30 years, the telecommunications sector in Europe has been the subject of... Read More about Governing information infrastructures and services in telecommunications.

New approaches to the development of telecommunications infrastructures in Europe? The evolution of European Union policy for next generation networks (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2009, November). New approaches to the development of telecommunications infrastructures in Europe? The evolution of European Union policy for next generation networks. Presented at ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section workshop ‘New Directions for Communication Policy Research, Zurich

In May 2009, the European Commission released a draft consultation document on the application of state aid rules to broadband network deployment, leaving open the possibility of significant state aid intervention. However, this paper argues that th... Read More about New approaches to the development of telecommunications infrastructures in Europe? The evolution of European Union policy for next generation networks.

Multilateralism, the EU and the evolving global governance of the internet (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2009, September). Multilateralism, the EU and the evolving global governance of the internet. Presented at 2009 European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Panel 433: ‘The EU’s Performance in International Institutions: Cross-Cutting Issues’, Potsdam, Germany

Whilst the global governance architecture for the Internet has evolved at pace in the last ten years the EU’s role and influence in its formation and development has been relatively understudied. This paper contributes to closing this gap in the lite... Read More about Multilateralism, the EU and the evolving global governance of the internet.

New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe (2009)
Journal Article
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2009). New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe. Governance, 22(4), 599. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2009.01455.x

Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that... Read More about New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe.

Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications (2009)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2009). Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications. Information, Communication and Society, 12(8), 1224-1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180902866042

The recent proposal of a European Electronic Communications Market Authority (EECMA) by the European Commission has turned out to be the most high profile and controversial element of the latest review of the EU's telecommunications regulatory framew... Read More about Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications.

Pervasiveness and efficacy in regulatory governance – neo-liberalism as ideology and practice in European telecommunications reorganisation (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2008, June). Pervasiveness and efficacy in regulatory governance – neo-liberalism as ideology and practice in European telecommunications reorganisation. Presented at European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Regulatory Governance Second Biennial Conference, ‘(Re)Regulation in the Wake of Neoliberalism. Consequences of Three Decades of Privatization and Market Liberalization’, Utrecht, Netherlands

Telecommunications provides one of the most well-developed examples of the growth
of neo-liberalism. The sector is interesting since the contrast between its pre neoliberal
and post neo-liberal characteristics is particularly stark. This paper expl... Read More about Pervasiveness and efficacy in regulatory governance – neo-liberalism as ideology and practice in European telecommunications reorganisation.

Globalization, the ‘competition’ state and the rise of the ‘regulatory’ state in European telecommunications (2008)
Journal Article
Humphreys, P., & Simpson, S. (2008). Globalization, the ‘competition’ state and the rise of the ‘regulatory’ state in European telecommunications. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2008.00802.x

This article examines European telecommunications through the conceptual lenses of the ‘competition’ and the ‘regulatory’ state, exploring their complementarities and tensions. It analyses the EU's electronic communications regulatory framework, expo... Read More about Globalization, the ‘competition’ state and the rise of the ‘regulatory’ state in European telecommunications.

The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012)
Thesis
Dewan, A. (in press). The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012). (Thesis). University of Salford

This research project surveyed the Influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria. It analyses how conflict journalists reported this violent episode that has spanned nearly twenty years and the si... Read More about The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012).

The performance of the EU in the international institutional landscape of the internet
Presentation / Conference
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. The performance of the EU in the international institutional landscape of the internet. Presented at Europe in Global Governance: Performance, Reform, Power, Rapallo, Italy

The paper undertakes a review of the how the EU has ‘acted’ within the Internet governance space that exists and is still being developed at the international level. In the process, the paper assesses the utility of some of the main approaches taken... Read More about The performance of the EU in the international institutional landscape of the internet.