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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schejter, Amit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication policy--United States.

Telecommunication policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]

Summary:

In ... And Communications for All, sixteen leading communications policy scholars present a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the new federal administration. This agenda emphasizes the potential of information technologies to improve democratic discourse, social responsibility, and the quality of life along with the means by which such information technologies can be made available to all Americans. Addressing a range of topics, including network neutrality, rural connectivity, media ownership, minority ownership, spectrum policy, universal broadband policy, and media for children, this book articulates a comprehensive vision for the United States as a twenty-first-century information society that is both internally inclusive and globally competitive.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739129197

0739129198

9780739129203

0739129201

9780739134832

0739134833

OCLC:

269282085