After Net Neutrality: A New Deal for the Digital Age (The Future Series)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2019

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780300249101
Publisher:
Yale University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Victor Pickard, David Elliot Berman
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Communication, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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