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After Net Neutrality
A provocative analysis of net neutrality and a call to democratize online communication This short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a more equitable framework for regulating access to the internet. Pickard and Berman argue that we should not see internet service as a commodity but as a public good necessary for sustaining democratic society in the twenty-first century. They aim to reframe the threat to net neutrality as more than a conflict between digital leviathans like Google and internet service providers like Comcast but as part of a much wider project to commercialize the public sphere and undermine the free speech essential for democracy. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the key concepts underpinning the net neutrality battle and rallying points for future action to democratize online communication.
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America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform
This contribution is a recording of the CAMRI research seminar held at the University of Westminster on November 19, 2014, in which Victor Pickard presented his book \"America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform\": http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/american-government-politics-and-policy/americas-battle-media-democracy-triumph-corporate-libertarianism-and-future-media-reformWhy do American media have so few public interest regulations? How did the American media system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in the 1940s, Victor Pickard explains how this happened and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system’s historical roots and normative foundations. His book charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. As much about the present and future as it is about the past, the book proposes policies for remaking media based on democratic values for the digital age. Victor Pickard is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he taught media studies at NYU and the University of Virginia, and he worked on media policy in Washington, D.C. as a Senior Research Fellow at the media reform organization Free Press, the public policy think tank the New America Foundation, and Congresswoman Diane Watson’s office. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the history and political economy of media institutions and media reform activism. His op-eds on media policy debates and the future of journalism have appeared in news outlets like The Guardian, The Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the editor (with Robert McChesney) of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights, and the author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy. He tweets at @VWPickard.
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Will the last reporter please turn out the lights : the collapse of journalism and what can be done to fix it
\"In response to mounting concerns about the future of the press, an outpouring of lively debate and proposals for alternative models of journalism has exploded across journals of opinion, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Despite this proliferation, a comprehensive overview of this new terrain has been noticeably missing-just what will the world look like without newspapers. Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights offers the first roadmap to this crucially important new debate, in a concise and accessible introduction to the current schools of thought emerging in response to the journalism crisis, with contributions by the leading media analysts writing today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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TRANSCENDING NET NEUTRALITY: TEN STEPS TOWARD AN OPEN ENTERNET
The past few years have witnessed a once-obscure issue known as \"net neutrality\" blow up into arguably the most publicized policy debate in US telecommunications history. \"Network neutrality,\" defined broadly, is non-discriminatory interconnectedness among data communication networks that allows users to access the content and to run the services, applications, and devices of their choice. Given the shortcomings of traditional neutral networking conceptualizations, this approach envisions a more democratic network infrastructure that: 1. requires common carriage, 2. supports open architecture and open source driver development, 3. maintains open protocols and open standards, 4. facilitates an end-to-end architecture, 5. safeguards privacy, 6. fosters application-neutrality, 7. mandates low-latency and first-in/first-out, 8. ensures interoperability, 9. remains business-model neutral, and 10. is governed by its users. Although piecemeal efforts are better than no movement at all, only if approached in tandem will these steps constitute a model for the Internet that is simultaneously open, democratic, and efficient.
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