The Communication & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform conference drew together researchers in Canada and beyond to explore the intersections between media/communications/cultural policy and platforms. Sessions addressed arts policy, broadcasting policy, communication rights, Indigenous communication and cultural policy, competition policy, cultural industries policy, heritage policy, internet policy, media policy, speech regulation, privacy, smart city regulation, and platform regulation. This White Paper is one of the outcomes of the conference, and distills what we heard over the five-day event into a set of policy recommendations. The conference archive also includes (below) video recordings of most conference sessions.
Keynote talk: Jesse Wente (Indigenous Screen Office)
3 May 2021
12:15pm ET
Indigenous Media and Communications Policy
3 May 2021
1:30pm ET
Keynote talk: Sharon McGowan and Susan Brinton (Women in Film and Television-Vancouver)
4 May 2021
12:00pm ET
Platform, labour, and struggles for alternative platform models
4 May 2021
1:15pm ET
Canadian Cultural Policy
4 May 2021
1:15pm ET
Keynote talk: Edward Greenspon (Public Policy Forum)
5 May 2021
12:30pm ET
Surveillance in the city
5 May 2021
1:45pm ET
Platforms, power, populism
5 May 2021
1:45pm ET
Roundtable on Algorithmic Literacy
5 May 2021
2:00pm ET
Broadcast and Digital Media
6 May 2021
12:00pm ET
Platform Governance: Media Policy or Telecoms Regulation as Guide?
6 May 2021
12:00pm ET
Music, Platforms, and the Pandemic: How do we go forward? How can policy help?
6 May 2021
12:00pm ET
Transformations in arts and media policy: from 2019 to 2021 via COVID-19
6 May 2021
1:45pm ET
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and digital platforms
6 May 2021
1:45pm ET
Digital Culture and Algorithmic Governance
6 May 2021
1:45pm ET
Keynote talk: Joan Jenkinson (Black Screen Office)
7 May 2021
12:30pm ET
Keynote panel: Joan Jenkinson, Sharon McGowan, Susan Brinton, Edward Greenspon, Jesse Wente
7 May 2021
1:45pm ET
Closing session
7 May 2021
3:00pm ET