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Communications policy and information technology : promises, problems, prospects
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Communications policy and information technology : promises, problems, prospects

Author: Lorrie Faith Cranor; Shane M Greenstein
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lorrie Faith Cranor; Shane M Greenstein
ISBN: 0262033003 9780262033008
OCLC Number: 50042581
Notes: "29th Research Conference on Information, Communication, and Internet Policy, Washington, D.C., 2001"--Pref. "Published in association with the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference"--Prelim. page.
Description: xxiii, 415 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface / Lorrie Faith Cranor -- Introduction / Lorrie Faith Cranor, Shane Greenstein -- I. Regulatory conundrums and the Internet -- ICANN, "Internet stability," and the new top level domains / Jonathan Weinberg -- ENUM: the collision of telephony and DNS policy / Robert Cannon -- On target? The shifting standards for determining Internet jurisdiction / Michael A. Geist -- II. Digital democracy: prospects and possibilities -- Security considerations for remote electronic voting over the Internet / Avi Rubin -- Signing initiative petitions online: possibilities, problems, and prospects / Walter Baer -- Efficient choice, inefficient democracy? The implications of cable and Internet access for political knowledge and voter turnout / Markus Prior -- III. Monopoly and competition in communications markets -- Assessing the effectiveness of section 271 five years after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 / Daniel R. Shiman, Jessica Rosenworcel -- Competitive analysis of international long distance calling / Sean Ennis -- Ownership concentration and product variety in daily newspaper markets / Lisa Megargle George -- IV. Future of wireless communications -- Best effort versus spectrum markets: 802.11 versus 3G / Lee McKnight, William Lehr, Raymond Linsenmayer -- Property rights, flexible spectrum use, and satellite v. terrestrial uses and users / Douglas W. Webbink -- V. Expanding the understanding of universal service -- Stronger than barbed wire: how geo-policy barriers construct rural Internet access / Kyle Nicholas -- Telecommunications and rural economics: findings from the Appalachian region / Sharon Strover, Michael Oden, Nobuya Inagaki -- Universal service in times of reform: affordability and accessibility of telecommunication services in Latin America / Martha Fuentes-Bautista -- Bringing the Internet to schools: the U.S. and E.U. policies / Michelle S. Kosmidis.
Responsibility: edited by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Shane Greenstein.

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