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The James H. and Mary B. Quello Center is focused on research that stimulates and informs public debate on media, communication and information policy. Our research often challenges assumptions about the role of technology, policy and regulation for citizens, communities, and society in pursuit of optimizing the full benefits of advanced communications in the digital age. Quello Center researchers collaborate across Michigan State University, with other centers of excellence, and with stakeholders to advance the political, social and economic potential of the Internet and related technologies and services. Current research addresses next-generation networks (5G, Internet of Things), network neutrality, digital inclusion, the opportunities of next-generation media, and data ethics.

Quello Center and Community Partners Recognized with 2022 MSU Distinguished Partnership Award

Johannes M. Bauer (Director, Quello Center), Keith Hampton (Director of Academic Research, Quello Center), Merit Network, Inc. (Joe Sawasky, Charlotte Bewersdorff), Eastern Upper Peninsula Intermediate School District (Jason F. Kronemeyer), Mecosta Osceola Intermediate School District (Fred Sharpsteen), St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency (Kevin D. Miller, Brenda Tenniswood), Washtenaw County Broadband Task Force (Ben Fineman), and the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission (K. John Egelhaaf) will be recognized by Michigan State University on February 24 with the 2022 Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Service for their efforts to increase understanding of the cost of digital inequalities to rural students, and to help overcome discrepancies in access to high-speed internet connectivity.

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Featured Research Project:
The Role of Ethics in Information Policy

This multi-year research initiative examines foundational principles governing information policy, including the role of ethics from individual, organizational, to sector-level contexts and its repercussions for policy design. Current debates of policies designed to harness the benefits while mitigating the downsides of digital platforms such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and other “big tech” companies are a good case in point. A starting point of the project is the recognition that deep uncertainty and increasing interdependence among players change how the information society can be governed. To remain effective, governance must better reflect these conditions. Systems approaches and adaptive forms of governance are needed to augment established policy models. Moreover, a reassessment of the normative and ethical principles upon which information society policies are based is called for.

Research team: Johannes M. Bauer (Quello Center, MSU)

Recent working paper: Bauer, Johannes M., New Guardrails for the Information Society (September 12, 2021). Quello Center Working Paper No. 05-21, Available at SSRN and DOI.

Quello Center Policy Briefs

Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A United States-United Kingdom Comparison

Policy brief coverAchieving a high overall vaccination rate is crucial for overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic. To prevent widening inequalities, it is also important to increase vaccination rates among the diverse populations that are most gravely affected by the pandemic. Governmental, healthcare, and policy groups need data to guide their strategic vaccination campaigns. This policy brief presents insights from data collected shortly before vaccines were formally approved. Our analysis helps to understand the factors that influence the willingness to be vaccinated and informs strategies to reach vaccine hesitant populations.
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Broadband and Student Performance Gaps: A Checklist for K12 Schools Considering Online Teaching in Response to COVID-19

Policy brief coverSchool districts face difficult choices. Large scale shifts in public education to an online curriculum must consider inequalities in broadband access, devices and skills, as well as parental and caretaker involvement. However, these inequalities cannot be overcome immediately. Unless schools decide against online teaching altogether because of these concerns (a strategy that has disadvantages for connected students), they need to find responses that minimize potential disadvantages for vulnerable populations. Key considerations are (1) offering of measures to improve the capacity of teachers, parents and learners to adapt to online learning, (2) appropriate design and use of distance learning, and (3) short-term measures to improve access to broadband. Quello Center Policy Brief 01-20 lays out options for short-term and long-term responses to the crisis.

Four Things A School District Needs to Know Before Moving Education Online
Download Quello Center Policy Brief 01-20 | Download Broadband and Performance Gap Report

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24.1.2022
Quello Center and Community Partners Recognized with 2022 MSU Distinguished Partnership Award

January 24, 2022 Johannes M. Bauer, Keith Hampton, and community partners will be recognized by Michigan State University on February 24 with the

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16.3.2021
New study: U.S. faces uphill struggle compared to U.K. in COVID-19 vaccination rates

Just 51% of Americans expressed a clear willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine compared to 71% of residents in the United Kingdom, according to a

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Upcoming Events
25 May '22
Free
The Internet of Things and Intimate Partner Abuse: Examining Prevalence, Risks, and Outcomes

Organizer UCL STEaPP | steapp.communications@ucl.ac.uk Via Zoom | RSVP Here In this talk, Megan Knittel will begin with a discussion of her recent paper examining prevalence, risk factors, support-seeking, and personal outcomes of Internet of Things (IoT)-mediated intimate partner abuse. The researchers conducted a survey (N=384) using the MTurk platform of adult women living in the United States who self-reported having experienced intimate partner abuse. They found that approximately 20% of women reported experiencing adverse behavior from an intimate partner using an IoT device, with the most common perpetration occurring with personal assistant devices and GPS enabled devices. Additionally, they found that […]

  • Wednesday @ 7:00 am Wednesday @ 8:00 am
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Past Events
27 Apr '22
Free
“Innovation in 5G technology: leadership, competition, and policy issues” Presentation and discussion of the Special Issue of Telecommunications Policy

Dr. Johannes Bauer will be speaking with Maria Alessandra Rossi, Maria Massaro, and Pier Luigi Parcu at a webinar organized by the International Telecommunications Society 5G development, implementation and disruptiveness continues to gather attention and debate among policymakers and researchers. 5G will provide the basis for digitization in many areas of our lives and will influence a broad spectrum of sectors. Full realisation of the Internet of Things (IoT), often called the next Industrial Revolution, relies on 5G development. At present, one estimate is that there will be up to 26 billion connected devices by 2026 (Ericsson, 2021). The global […]

  • Wednesday @ 8:00 am Wednesday @ 9:30 am
  • 404 Wilson Rd, ITS Online Event, East Lansing, MI.
08 Apr '22
Free
Living with HIV in Rural Areas: Addressing Healthcare Transportation Barriers through Technology.

Via Zoom | RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu People living with HIV in rural areas need to get to healthcare facilities and places where they can find nutritious food that are often located in other towns or cities. Thus, access to affordable and reliable forms of transportation to healthcare and food resources is critical for this population. Yet, the transportation needs of this vulnerable population are often underserved as public and private transportation services are limited in rural areas. Ridesharing platforms have made it easier for people living in urban areas to get to work, grocery stores and healthcare providers. However, such technologies […]

  • Friday @ 11:00 am Friday @ 12:00 pm
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25 Mar '22
Free
“Because Technology” and Other Legal Imaginaries of COVID-19

Sandra Braman, Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University Via Zoom | RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu The Covid-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to examine how a medical emergency — so different in kind from the national security emergencies we are accustomed to thinking about in this policy issue area — affected information policy as broadly defined. The talk will provide an overview of information policy as legal epidemiology, examines the legal imaginaries of the pandemic as they appeared in the first five months, and positions those imaginaries relative to the longer trajectories of the evolution of information policy. […]

  • Friday @ 11:00 am Friday @ 12:00 pm
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  • The Internet of Things and Intimate Part
    • May 25, 2022
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    • Wednesday - 7:00am
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Community

  • Quello Center and Community Partners Recognized with 2022 MSU Distinguished Partnership Award
  • New study: U.S. faces uphill struggle compared to U.K. in COVID-19 vaccination rates
  • Quello Center Researchers @ TPRC 48
  • Video: Platform Economics: Possible Futures with Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science and W. Edward Steinmueller, University of Sussex

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  • Happy to see the 2020 Quello Center Broadbandgap Report cited in the 2022 Economic Report of the President (see p.… https://t.co/fS8gNDU59r24 days ago
  • Designing optimal policy to support 5G and 6G innovation. Webinar, Wednesday, April 27, 8 AM ET, with, Johannes M.… https://t.co/ArrKei4Qm627 days ago

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