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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickard, Victor, Author.

Berman, David Elliot, Author.

Series:

Future series.

The Future Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication policy--History--United States.

Telecommunication policy.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages).

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-24910-1

OCLC:

1122454330