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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schejter, Amit M.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication policy.

Telecommunication policy--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2009.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-42986-9

1-282-49432-5

9786612494321

0-7391-3483-3

OCLC:

467420319