ICDO President Josipa Palac and ICDO Advisor and professor Dr. Anthony Löwstedt (pictured) had their research paper “Media and Other Biocultural Diversities” published as the first chapter in an Innsbruck University Press volume, titled Das Ende der Vielfalt? Zur Diversität der Medien (‘The End of Pluralism? On Media Diversity’). The chapter is based on a keynote speech Dr. Löwstedt held at a conference on the theme at Innsbruck University in 2018.
The chapter outlines media diversity differently from other leading concepts and theories. The authors instead distinguish seven different media diversities: ownership and control, sponsorship, censorship (in a wide sense), type, employment, content, and perspective/opinion. As the definition of media is currently undergoing an extensive reconstruction phase, largely due to technological developments, they also provide additional orientation by means of a context employing the wider concepts of cultural, linguistic, and biocultural diversity as well as some of the many ethical and regulatory dimensions involved. Finally, Löwstedt and Palac speculate briefly on a not-so-distant future world, in which the Internet penetrates the entire biosphere and the convergence of these two concepts.
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Dr. Anthony Loewstadt and Josipa Palac