When Media Companies Insist They're Not Media Companies and Why It Matters for Communications Policy

Robyn Caplan is an Assistant Professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, and a Senior Lecturing Fellow in the Center for Science & Society at Duke University. She is also a Researcher Affiliate at Data & Society Research Institute, where she worked as a Senior Researcher, an Affiliate at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a founding member of the Platform Governance Research Network. She received her PhD from the School of Comm

Philip M. Napoli is the James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research for the Sanford School.  He also serves as a Docent at the University of Helsinki.Professor Napoli's research focuses on media institutions and media regulation and policy.  He has provided formal and informal expert testimony on these topics to government bodies such as the&nb