E-book
Communications policy and information technology promises, problems, prospects
Record details
- ISBN: 9780262270939 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0262270935 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0585446482 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780585446486 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxiii, 415 pages) : illustrations - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Published in association with the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference"--Prelim. p. "29th Research Conference on Information, Communication, and Internet Policy, Washington, D.C., 2001"--Preface. "Published in association with the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference"--Prelimimary page. "29th Research Conference on Information, Communication, and Internet Policy, Washington, D.C., 2001"--Pref. Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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