Beyond Broadband Access : : Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies / / Richard D. Taylor, Amit M. Schejter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Richard D.,; Schejter, Amit M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Johannes M.,; Bauer, Steven,; Bohlin, Erik,; Brown, Justin S.,; Clark, David,; Flamm, Kenneth,; Frieden, Rob,; Hudson, Heather E.,; Kim, Sungjoong,; Lee, Sangwon,; Lehr, William,; Middleton, Catherine,; Noam, Eli,; Rohman, Ibrahim Kholilul,; Schejter, Amit M.,; Schement, Jorge Reina,; Taylor, Richard D.,; Zhang, Bin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Donald McGannon Communication Research Center's Everett C. Parker Book Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding “information societies”? And, more important, in shaping their policies? Beyond counting people with broadband access, how can economic and social metrics inform broadband policies, help evaluate their outcomes, and create useful models for achieving national goals? This timely volume not only examines the traditional questions about broadband, like availability and access, but also explores and evaluates new metrics more applicable to the evolving technologies of information access.Beyond Broadband Access brings together a stellar array of media policy scholars from a wide range of disciplines—economics, law, policy studies, computer science, information science, and communications studies. Importantly, it provides a well-rounded, international perspective on theoretical approaches to databased communications policymaking in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Showcasing a diversity of approaches, this invaluable collection helps to meet myriad challenges to improving the foundations for communications policy development.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Numbers That Matter -- PART I: THEORY -- 1. Beyond Broadband Access -- 2. Understanding Digital Gaps -- 3. Broadband Microfoundations -- 4. Adoption Factors of Ubiquitous Broadband -- 5. Data and Modeling Challenges in International Comparisons -- 6. Data, Policy, and Democracy -- 7. “Rulers of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens” -- PART II: THE USE AND ABUSE OF DATA IN INFORMATION POLICY MAKING -- 8. PhD Heal Thyself -- 9. Case Studies in Results-Driven Decision Making at the FCC -- 10. The Determinants of Disconnectedness -- 11. European Broadband Spending -- 12. Using Data for Policy Development -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index