The Public Panopticon Manifesto

Pawel Popiel (1)

1 University of Pennsylvania

Despite occasional frictions with regulators, tech giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google have enjoyed a relatively unfettered business climate in the U.S. and congenial, even cooperative relations with the state. Although concerns over foreign election meddling, the proliferation of fake news, and growing market power brought unwanted attention from lawmakers, the media, and policy experts, the tech sector's imprint on social and political life remains immense and largely unchecked. This manifesto outlines the contours of this economic and political power. It frames its growth as a failure not just of policy, but also of the policymaking process and the political culture that underpins it. To address this failure, it articulates-the public panopticon‖-a new policymaking structure that reimagines the power dynamics within the policymaking process, a reorientation in policy priorities, and a revived public interest at its core.

Mots clés: Lobbying; media policy; public interest; Media theory

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Pawel Popiel. The Public Panopticon Manifesto. Media Theory, 2018, Standard Issue, 2 (2), pp.270 - 288. ⟨hal-02047824⟩