Browse a wide range of reading materials relating to the policies, politics and philosophies of the media, communications and Internet environment.
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Articles David Bollier and Tim Watts, "Saving the Information Commons: A New Public Interest Agenda in Digital Media" (PDF), 2002 Andrew Spencer Goldman, “When New Media Turns Old” August 2001 |
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Reports American Library Association, "Principles for the Networked World" (PDF), February 2003 Nancy Kranich, "The Information Commons--A Public Policy Report" Spitfire Strategies, “The Activation Point” Adrienne Russell, Mimi Ito, Todd Richmond and Marc Tuters “Networked Public Culture” |
Books Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture (New York University Press, 2006) Henry Jenkins Fans, Bloggers and Gamers (New York University Press, 2006) Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York, NY: Random House, 2001) Newton Minow and Lawrence Grossman, A Digital Gift to the Nation: Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital and Internet Age (New York, NY: Century Foundation Press, 2001) Kathryn Montgomery, Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community (MIT Press, 2000) Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Perseus Books Group, 2002) Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life (MIT Press, August 2005) Peter Karoff, The World We Want" (AltaMira Press, Jan. 2007)
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Articles Mark Glaser, “Your Guide to the Digital Divide”, January 2007 Waleed al-Shobakky, “PCs for the Poor: As Good as Their Hype?”, July 2006 |
Online Publications First Monday: Peer-reviewed Journal on the Internet |
Reports National Telecommunications and Information Administration, "Americans in the Information Age: Falling Through the Net" October 2000. Children's Partnership, "Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Americans: The Digital Divide's New Frontier", Wendy Lazarus and Francisco Mora. March 2000. MIT Conference, “Race in the Digital Space” 2001. AUDIO Benton Foundation, “Great Expectations: Leveraging America’s Investment in Educational Technology”, (PDF) 2002. |
Books Benjamin M. Compaine, The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001) Barbara Monroe, Crossing the Digital Divide: Race, Writing, and Technology in the Classroom (New York: Teachers College Press, 2004) Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Mary Stansbury, Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003) Pippa Norris, et al, Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Lisa J. Servon, Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy (London: Blackwell Publishers, 2002) Mark Warschauer, Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003) William Wresch, Disconnected: Haves and Have-Nots in the Information Age (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)
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General Child Online Protection Act (COPA) Russel Shaw “Behavioral Targeting 101” iMedia Connection Michael Garrity “Behavioural Targeting – ‘Smart’ Marketing or Dangerous Privacy Violation?” September 2006.
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Articles EPIC. “Tools for Protecting Online Privacy” The.Next.Net “Eyeballing the Value of Web 2.0 Startups” Agency Presse France “New Era Online Ads Target Consumer Tastes”, 2007 Jeff Cole “Tracking the Online Community”, AUDIO, March 2007 Cecile Daurat “AOL Offers Ads Linked to Results of Searches”, Washington Post, April 2007 Michelle Megna “Oh Behave: Do Ads Work Best Out of Context?”, E-Commerce Guide, November 2006 David Armano “It’s the Conversation Economy, Stupid” Business Week, April 2007 Business Week “The Sell-Phone Revolution” April 2007 Catherine Holahan “Taking Aim at Targeted Advertising” Business Week, November 2006 Richard Waters "Google's DoubleClick Bid Draws Complaint" Financial Times, April 2007 Andy Chen "Targeting the Social Behavior" |
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Online Publications ClickZ: Internet Marketing Solutions for Marketers IAB Smartbrief,, Interactive Advertising Bureau paidContent.org: The Economics of Content Search Engine Land: A news and information site covering search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry. Search Engine Watch: Provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.
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Reports Ariel Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, Edward W. Felten “Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine” (PDF) National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Online Privacy Technologies Workshop Oppenheimer “The Digital Consumer: Examining Trends in Digital Media” (PDF) Yahoo! Summit Series, OMD “Truly, Madly, Deeply Engaged” (PDF) Akamai, “Successful Social Networking and User-Generated-Content Applications: What You Need to Know” (PDF) Forrester Research “The Reality of Behavioral Ad Targeting” (PDF) PiperJaffray, “The User Revolution” (PDF), February 2007. |
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Books Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg, eds., Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998) Fred H. Cate, Privacy in the Information Age (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997) Simson Garfinkel, Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2001) Rob Graham,Fishing From a Barrel: Using Behavioral Targeting to Reach the Right People with the Right Ads at the Right Time (Learning Craft Press) Joe Plummer, Steve Rappaport, Taddy Hall, and Robert Barocci, The Online Advertising Playbook (Wiley) Daniel J. Solove, The Digital Person: Technology And Privacy In The Information Age (New York: New York University Press, 2004)
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Wikipedia, “Digital Television” Federal Communications Commission, Digital Television, FCC Consumer Facts Peter H. Putman, "The Basics Of Digital Television", FAQ Current Briefing, “Digital Television and Public Television”
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Articles Online Newshour, “TV Goes Digital” Interview April 1997. Digital Television Testimony of Gigi Sohn, Media Access Project. Michael Calabrese, “Completing the Digital Television Transition: A Consumer Converter Subsidy Can Reduce the Deficit and Redeploy UHF Spectrum for Wireless Broadband" (PDF), Testimony, June 2004
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Reports UK Cabinet Office “Digital Television: A Policy Framework for Accessing E-Government Services” (PDF) November 2003.
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Books Jeffrey A. Hart Technology, Television and Competition (Cambridge University Press, 2005) |
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Federal Communications Commission, International Bureau International Telecommunications Union, Economies by Broadband Penetration, 2004 Wikipedia, “Global Internet Usage” (Total number of Internet users, Languages used on the Internet)
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Articles InfoWorld “EU May Seek to Split Telco Monopolies” June 2006 |
Online Publications APCNews, The Association for Progressive Communications |
Reports World Summit on the Information Society, "Civil Society Declaration, 'Shaping Information Societies for Human Needs' OURMedia International Conference Abstracts, (PDF) 2007 Michael H. Ryan “Structural Separation: A Prerequisite for Effective Telecoms Competiton?” (PDF) Ofcom, “Communications – The Next Decade” |
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Federal Communications Commission, “Broadband”
Wikipedia, "Broadband Internet Access”
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Articles CNet, "Bandwidth Roundtable", 2004 Ben Scott and Craig Aaron, Tom Paine.com, United States of Broadband, July 2005
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Online Publications CED (Communications Engineering & Design) Law Meme, Yale Law School National Journal's Tech Daily Dose: The standard for news and information on technology politics and policy. Warren's Washington Internet Daily: Covers everyone -- at any level of government, in industry groups, in the courts or elsewhere -- who is setting rules for the Internet. |
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Tim Wu, "The Broadband Debate: A User's Guide," Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 3, No. 69, 2004.
David Isenberg, “The Rise of the Stupid Network”, June 1997.
Communications Workers of America, “Speed Matters: Affordable High Speed Internet for All” (PDF) October 2006.
Edward W. Felten “Nuts and Bolts of Network Neutrality” (PDF). July 2006.
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Books Tim Wu and Jack Goldsmith. Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World ( Oxford University Press, 2006).
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General Federal Communications Commission, “2006 Review of the Media Ownership Rules” The Museum of Broadcast Communications “Public Interest, Convenience and Necessity”
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Articles Frontline, "Media Giants" Mark Crispin Miller, "The Big Ten", The Nation, January 2002. Alison Gregor, “What’s Spanish for ‘Big Media”, 2003. Global Issues, "Corporate Influence in the Media"
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Online Publications Online NewsHour “How relaxing FCC ownership rules have affected the media business” Media Access Project, Comprehensive 2002 Media Ownership Proceeding in the FCC Journalism.org, Media Ownership and Deregulation Media Channel, "Why Ownership Rules Matter And What You Can Do" XChange Online Communications Daily: The authoritative service dedicated to covering telecom regulation, legislation and policy development. Written by journalists who understand the industry inside and out.
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Reports Federal Communications Commission, Media Ownership Working Group Studies Free Expression Policy Project. “Fact Sheets on Media Democracy” New America Foundation, “Citizen’s Guide to the Airwaves”, July 2003. |
Books Ken Auletta, Backstory: Inside the Business of News (New York: Penguin Books, 2003) Ben H. Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004) Erik Barnouw, Conglomerates and the Media (New York: New Press, 1998) Elliot D. Cohen, News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its Threat To Democracy (New York: Prometheus Books, 2005) Mark Cooper, Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age, Center for Information and Society, Stanford Law School Mark Cooper, The Case Against Media Consolidation (pdf), 2006. Gillian Doyle, Media Ownership: Concentration, Convergence and Public Policy (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002) Dan Gillmor, We the Media (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2004) James T. Hamilton, All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (New York: Princeton University Press, 2003) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Pantheon, 2002) Robert W. McChesney, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997) Robert W. McChesney, The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004) Robert W. McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times (New York: New Press, 2000) Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media (New York: Seven Stories Press 2002) Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media (New York: Basic Books, 2004) Kathryn Montgomery, Target: Prime Time (Oxford University Press, 2001)
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General TechSoup “Everything You Need to Know about Web 2.0” Tim O’Reilly “What Is Web 2.0”, September 2005 Wikipedia, “Web 2.0”
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Articles Patricia Aufderheide, Is Wikipedia the New Townhall, March 2007. Netcentric Campaigns “Why Organize in Second Life?” Apophenia, “Web 1-2-3” |
Online Publications First Monday: Peer-reviewed Journal on the Internet
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Reports Dotorganize.net, “Online Technology for Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy” September 2006. The New Media Consortium, “Horizon Report” (PDF), 2007. Marty Kearns, Green Media Toolshed “Network-Centric Advocacy” (PDF) David Bollier “Political Advocacy and the Networked Culture” (PDF), March 2006 Cynthia M. Gibson “Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement” (PDF) Case Foundation Jillaine Smith, Martin Kearns, Allison Fine "Power to the Edges: Trends and Opportunities in Online Civic Engagement " (PDF), 2005
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Books Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks (Yale University Press, May 2006) Jeff Chester, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy (New Press, 2007) Doc Searls, David Wienberger, Christopher Locke, Rick Levine Cluetrain Manifesto (Perseus Books Group, 2001)
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General Bill Olson “The History of Public Access Television”, 2000. The Museum of Broadcast Communications “Public Access Television”
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Articles Scripps News, “Youth Journalists Talk About Public Access TV”, March 2007. Democracy Now! “Local Public Access TV Under Attack From Trio of Congressional Bills”, 2005.
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Reports Douglas Kellner “Public Access Television and the Struggle for Democracy” (PDF) Kelly Anderson and Annie Goldson “Alternating Currents: Alternative Television Inside and Outside of the Academy” 1993. Manhattan Neighborhood Network “Save Access TV Toolkit: Tools for a Democratic Media” (PDF) 2006.
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Books Laura R. Linder, Public Access Television : America's Electronic Soapbox (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999) |
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General Federal Communications Commission, Spectrum Greater Democracy, Open Spectrum FAQ Wikipedia, Open Spectrum
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Articles Michael Calabrese, "Spectrum Reform an Urgent U.S. Priority," The Hill, 4 Feb. 2004 International Telecommunications Union, "Spectrum Reform" Peter Pitsch, "The Future of Radio Spectrum Policy," (PDF) Technology@Intel Magazine Clay Shirky, "The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good" August 2004. Gregory Staple and Kevin Werbach, "The Coming Spectrum Explosion--A Regulatory and Business Primer" (PDF)
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Reports New America Foundation “Speeding the DTV Transition: Facts and Policy Options”, (PDF)Wireless Future Program, May 2005. Ellie Rennie, “Community Spectrum Taskforce” (PDF), March 2006. New America Foundation & Center for International Media Action, “Building Constituents for Spectrum Policy Change” September 2006.
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Books G.R. Faulhaber, The Future of Wireless Telecommunications: Spectrum as a critical resource, (2006) Jennifer A. Manner, Spectrum Wars: The Policy and Technology Debate (Artech House, 2003)
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Articles Carol Ellison, EWeek, “Municipal Broadband Bills Come Under Fire” Bob Wallace, Xchange, “Municipalities take FCC to Court in Video Franchise Fight”, April 2007. Art Brodsky, “FCC Actions on Video Franchise Won’t Help Consumers”, December 2006.
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Online Publications Government Technology’s Digital Communities
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Reports Sharon E. Gillett, William H. Lehr, and Carlos Osorio, "Local Government Broadband Initiatives" 2003.James N. Horwood and Allison L. Driver, Spiegel & McDiarmid, "Legal Issues Understanding the Challenges - Municipal Entry: What is Really at Stake", (PDF) March 2003 |
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