Communications policy and information technology : promises, problems, prospects /

New technologies, although developed with optimism, often fall short of their predicted potential and create new problems. Communications technologies are no different. Their utopian proponents claim that universal access to advanced communications technologies can help to feed the hungry, cure the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy Washington, D.C.
Otros Autores: Cranor, Lorrie Faith, Greenstein, Shane M.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Colección:Telecommunications policy research.
Temas:
Telecommunication policy > Congresses.
Information technology > Congresses.
Télécommunications > Politique gouvernementale > Congrès.
Technologie de l'information > Congrès.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
Information technology
Telecommunication policy
Telekommunikationspolitik
Informationstechnik
Kongress
Telecommunicatie.
Informatietechnologie.
Beleidsvorming.
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Lorrie Faith Cranor
  • Introduction / Lorrie Faith Cranor, Shane Greenstein
  • I. Regulatory conundrums and the Internet
  • ICANN, "Internet stability," and the new top level domains / Jonathan Weinberg
  • ENUM: the collision of telephony and DNS policy / Robert Cannon
  • On target? The shifting standards for determining Internet jurisdiction / Michael A. Geist
  • II. Digital democracy: prospects and possibilities
  • Security considerations for remote electronic voting over the Internet / Avi Rubin
  • Signing initiative petitions online: possibilities, problems, and prospects / Walter Baer
  • Efficient choice, inefficient democracy? The implications of cable and Internet access for political knowledge and voter turnout / Markus Prior
  • III. Monopoly and competition in communications markets
  • Assessing the effectiveness of section 271 five years after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 / Daniel R. Shiman, Jessica Rosenworcel
  • Competitive analysis of international long distance calling / Sean Ennis
  • Ownership concentration and product variety in daily newspaper markets / Lisa Megargle George
  • IV. Future of wireless communications
  • Best effort versus spectrum markets: 802.11 versus 3G / Lee McKnight, William Lehr, Raymond Linsenmayer
  • Property rights, flexible spectrum use, and satellite v. terrestrial uses and users / Douglas W. Webbink
  • V. Expanding the understanding of universal service
  • Stronger than barbed wire: how geo-policy barriers construct rural Internet access / Kyle Nicholas
  • Telecommunications and rural economics: findings from the Appalachian region / Sharon Strover, Michael Oden, Nobuya Inagaki
  • Universal service in times of reform: affordability and accessibility of telecommunication services in Latin America / Martha Fuentes-Bautista
  • Bringing the Internet to schools: the U.S. and E.U. policies / Michelle S. Kosmidis.

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