Regulating the Web (eBook, ePUB)

Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet
Redaktion: Stiegler, Zack

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network management that would permit them to discriminate the quality and speed of access to online content as they saw fit. In response, the Federal Communications Commission sought to enshrine "net neutrality" in regulatory policy as a means of preserving the Internet's open, nondiscriminatory characteristics. Although the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internet's structure. Regulating the Web brings together a diverse collection of scholars who examine the net neutrality policy and surrounding debates from a variety of perspectives. In doing so, the book contributes to the ongoing discourse about net neutrality in the hopes that we may continue to work toward preserving a truly open Internet structure in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739178690
• Artikelnr.: 38219846

Autorenporträt

Edited by Zack Stiegler - Contributions by John Nathan Anderson; Jeremy Carp; Benjamin Cline; Michael Daubs; Brian Dolber; Daniel Faltesek; Michael Felczak; Mark Grabowski; Pallavi Guniganti; Danny Kimball; Isabella Kulkarni; Patrick Schmidt; Tina Sikka a

Inhaltsangabe

Regulating the Web: An Introduction Zack Stiegler Part I: Background and Principles1 Chapter 1:
Visions of Modernity: Communication, Technology and Network Neutrality in Historical Perspective Michael Felczak Chapter 2:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality: A Historical Genealogy of the Discourse of Net Neutrality Danny Kimball Chapter 3:
Transparency, Consumers, and the Pursuit of an Open Internet: A Critical Appraisal Jeremy Carp, Isabella Kulkarni, and Patrick Schmidt Chapter 4:
Applying Common Carriage to Network Neutrality Pallavi Guniganti and Mark Grabowski Part II: Institutional Perspectives Imagining Equilibrium: The Figure of the Dynamic Market in the Net Neutrality Debate Daniel Faltesek Chapter 6:
Axiology and the FCC: Regulation as Ideological Process Benjamin Cline Part III: Net Neutrality as Cultural and Political Debate Chapter 7:
Framing the Net Neutrality Debate Zack Stiegler and Dan Sprumont Chapter 8:
Informationism as Ideology: Technological Myths in the Net Neutrality Debate Brian Dolber Part IV: Socio-Cultural Implications Chapter 9:
A Critical Theory of Technology Approach to the Study of Network Neutrality Tina Sikka Chapter 10: Network Neutrality, Mobile Networks, and User-Generated Activism Michael Daubs Chapter 11: Beyond the Series of Tubes: Strategies for Advancing Media Reform John Nathan Anderson