| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 257 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-247) and index. |
| Contents |
Regulating the Web : an introduction / Zachary Stiegler -- Visions of modernity : communication, technology and network neutrality in historical perspective / Michael Felczak -- What we talk about when we talk about net neutrality : a historical genealogy of the discussion of "net neutrality" / Danny Kimball -- Transparency, consumers, and the pursuit of an open Internet : a critical appraisal / Jeremy Carp, Isabella Kulkarni, and Patrick Schmidt -- Applying common carriage to network neutrality / Pallavi Guniganti and Mark Grabowski -- Imagining equilibrium : the figure of the dynamic market in the net neutrality debate / Daniel Faltesek -- Axiology and the FCC : regulation as ideological process / Benjamin Cline -- Framing the net neutrality debate / Zachary Stiegler and Dan Sprumont -- Informationism as ideology : technological myths in the net neutrality debate / Brian Dolber -- A critical theory of technology approach to the study of network neutrality / Tina Sikka -- Network neutrality, mobile networks, and user-generated activism / Michael Daubs -- Beyond the series of tubes : strategies for advancing media reform / John Nathan Anderson. |
| Summary |
"Since its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network management that would permit them to discriminate the quality and speed of access to online content as they saw fit. In response, the Federal Communications Commission sought to enshrine 'net neutrality' in regulatory policy as a means of preserving the Internet's open, nondiscriminatory characteristics. Although the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internet's structure. Regulating the Web brings together a diverse collection of scholars who examine the net neutrality policy and surrounding debates from a variety of perspectives. In doing so, the book contributes to the ongoing discourse about net neutrality in the hopes that we may continue to work toward preserving a truly open Internet structure in the United States"--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Telecommunication policy -- United States.
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Internet -- Government policy -- United States.
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Network neutrality -- United States.
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Internet industry -- Government policy -- United States.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
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| Added Author |
Stiegler, Zachary, 1981- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Regulating the Web. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013] 9780739178683 (DLC) 2012038669 (OCoLC)811598275 |
| ISBN |
9780739178690 (electronic book) |
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0739178695 (electronic book) |
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9781299140035 (electronic book) |
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1299140033 (electronic book) |
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