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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808228103321

Autore

Pickard Victor

Titolo

After Net Neutrality : A New Deal for the Digital Age / / Victor Pickard, David Elliot Berman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-300-24910-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 pages)

Collana

The Future Series

Disciplina

384

Soggetti

Telecommunication policy - History - United States

History

United States

USA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Battle for Ownership and Control of Communication Infrastructures -- 2. The Broadband Cartel -- 3. The Making of a Movement -- Conclusion: Another Internet Is Possible -- Net Neutrality Timeline -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.