Regulating the Web

Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-12-14
Mått161 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor266
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739178683

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Regulating the Web: An IntroductionZack StieglerPart I: Background and Principles1Chapter 1: Visions of Modernity: Communication, Technology and Network Neutrality in Historical PerspectiveMichael FelczakChapter 2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality: A Historical Genealogy of the Discourse of Net NeutralityDanny KimballChapter 3: Transparency, Consumers, and the Pursuit of an Open Internet: A Critical AppraisalJeremy Carp, Isabella Kulkarni, and Patrick SchmidtChapter 4: Applying Common Carriage to Network NeutralityPallavi Guniganti and Mark GrabowskiPart II: Institutional PerspectivesImagining Equilibrium: The Figure of the Dynamic Market in the Net Neutrality DebateDaniel FaltesekChapter 6: Axiology and the FCC: Regulation as Ideological ProcessBenjamin ClinePart III: Net Neutrality as Cultural and Political DebateChapter 7: Framing the Net Neutrality DebateZack Stiegler and Dan SprumontChapter 8: Informationism as Ideology: Technological Myths in the Net Neutrality DebateBrian DolberPart IV: Socio-Cultural ImplicationsChapter 9: A Critical Theory of Technology Approach to the Study of Network NeutralityTina SikkaChapter 10: Network Neutrality, Mobile Networks, and User-Generated ActivismMichael DaubsChapter 11: Beyond the Series of Tubes: Strategies for Advancing Media ReformJohn Nathan Anderson

Regulating the Web is a series of 11 essays that grew out of panel discussions from the 2011 National Communication Association meeting. As such, it shares the strengths found in many books growing out of conferences. It is well researched and full of very current information as of the time of its publication. Contributors present novel and informative perspectives on the history, politics, and current state of the Internet. This is a worthwhile read for audiences interested in the topic of net neutrality. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals.