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Book SynopsisSince 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
Trade ReviewRegulating the Web is a series of 11 essays that grew out of panel discussions from the 2011 National Communication Association meeting. As such, it shares the strengths found in many books growing out of conferences. It is well researched and full of very current information as of the time of its publication. Contributors present novel and informative perspectives on the history, politics, and current state of the Internet. This is a worthwhile read for audiences interested in the topic of net neutrality. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. * CHOICE *
Network neutrality is one of the most important policy issues of the 21st century, with implications for the future of politics, intellectual life, culture, the economy, and more. This smart, sophisticated, and cutting-edge collection offers both a solid introduction and a comprehensive overview of the best thinking of proponents of an open internet. -- Thomas Streeter, University of Vermont
Table of ContentsRegulating 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
