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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454790003321

Titolo

--And communications for all [[electronic resource] ] : a policy agenda for a new administration / / edited by Amit M. Schejter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2009

ISBN

1-282-49432-5

9786612494321

0-7391-3483-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchejterAmit

Disciplina

384.0973

Soggetti

Telecommunication policy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Broadband, Internet, and universal service : challenges to the social contract of the twenty-first century / Jorge Reina Schement -- Digital media, modern democracy, and our truncated national debate / Ernest J. Wilson III -- Public scholarship and the communications policy agenda / Robert W. McChesney -- International benchmarks : the crisis in U.S. communications policy through a comparative lens / Amit M. Schejter -- Competition and investment in wireline broadband / Marvin Ammori -- U.S. cable TV policy : managing the transition to broadband / Richard D. Taylor -- A spectrum policy agenda / Jon M. Peha -- The way forward for wireless / Rob Frieden -- Rethinking the media ownership policy agenda / Philip M. Napoli -- Universal service / Krishna Jayakar -- America's forgotten challenge : rural access / Sharon L. Strover -- Municipal broadband / Andrea H. Tapia -- The future of the e-rate : U.S. universal service fund support for public access and social services / Heather E. Hudson -- Public service media 2.0 / Ellen P. Goodman -- Creating a media policy agenda for the digital generation / Kathryn Montgomery -- Race and media : several key proposals for the next administration / Leonard M. Baynes.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, sixteen leading communications policy scholars present a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the new federal



administration. The articles address a range of topics, including network neutrality, rural connectivity, media ownership, minority ownership, spectrum policy, universal broadband policy, and media for children.