Communications policy and information technology promises, problems, prospects

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Corporate Author Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy Washington, D.C.
Other Authors Cranor, Lorrie Faith, Greenstein, Shane M.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Subjects
Telecommunication policy > Congresses.
Information technology > Congresses.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262270939
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xxiii, 415 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 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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