컨버전스(Convergence) 시대에 방송의 규범영역 - 정보미디어사업법안에 관한 비판적 고찰을 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

  In May 2005, nineteen members of the South Korean National Assembly introduced a bill to promulgated as the Information Media Business Act(Bill No. 2929), which is currently pending at the National Assembly. The Bill, if enacted, will be the legislation in South Korea directly applicable to Convergence Service that has been much discussed and debated from diverse standpoints in various relevant fields. At the same time, it will establish a statutory basis for the regulation of the Information Media Business activities and who are involved therein.
  Developing digital technology sharply, a view which distinguishes hard between communication area meaning individual communication and broadcasting area meaning mass communication that could be done clearly at analog era showed up. How to regulate this type of communication that appears at between broadcasting and communication area? In other words, there are issues which area this type of communication should be involved between broadcasting and communication area, or whether we have to create a third area that can adapt with economical relations.
  The debates including the bill, however, make me have a critical mind because they are just limited at the old way of technology and the definition itself of broadcasting as the standard for determining what is a broadcasting within the statutory meaning. but any legislative effort for defining or characterizing the new type of digital communication, during the discussions over the pending bill at the National Assembly committees and session beyond, should be directed toward an analysis of constitutional Perspective. Because the legislative effort should be within the limit of constitutional value order. So, my thesis starts these two critical minds and to resolve these issues.
  With the point that can distinguish between individual communication and mass communication and with respect to way of use or function of electric wave-media, I try to explain the constitutional value and each regulation system of individual communication and mass communication. In other words, I want to confirm constitutional concept of way of future communication with the developed technology based on the theory of distinction of individual and mass communication and suppose to standard of constitutional protection area for new way of communication. With this purpose in mind, I analyzed the constitutional meaning of the special protection of electronic wave resources mediated mass communication.
  Therefore, the legislative efforts for digital based new type of communication in South Korea should reflect the concept of the actual and potential objects of electronic mass communication activities as opposed to the definition itself of broadcasting as the standard for determining which is a broadcasting within the traditional way of technology. In other words, the key to the legislative effort for defining the concept of new type of communication based on electronic facility will lie in how to have respective statutory conform to the nature of broadcasting as a mechanism for effective flow of information.