A blog from Evelyne Cudel, suggesting a role for the Quello Center. Posted with her permission: “Place people at the heart of the global agenda” For an “integrated humanitarian action, sustainable development, and the creation of peaceful societies.” On a moral...
Quello Professor Steve Wildman and Dr Jonathan Obar, a Quello Research Associate, organized a workshop on the governance of social media that has yielded an excellent special issue of Telecommunications Policy (Volume 39, Issue 9, October 2015). It features articles...
What If No Electrical Grid? A. Michael Noll December 8, 2015 © 2015 AMN Alternative futures are sometimes enlightening to contemplate. Thus the need to ask the question “What if?” The specific question to be asked is “What if today’s electrical grid did not exist – it...
Having appreciated my colleague Aleks' Yankelevich’s creative use of a "food" metaphor to explain an important aspect of economic analysis, I thought it fitting, on the day of oral arguments in the legal challenge to the FCC's Open Internet Order, to consider another...
Growing up, my parents, brother, and I usually avoided restaurants. For my parents, this was initially out of necessity; as Soviet refugees, they did not have the financial means to eat out. However, even having achieved a modicum of success, my parents are not...
'3D Yet Again' A. Michael Noll November 26, 2015 © 2015 AMN Stereoscopic 3D has always created a strong fascination with its feelings of depth and realism. Today it has morphed into the hype of something called “holographic enhanced virtual reality.” As a child, I had...
In the past few weeks we’ve seen both a wireless and wireline carrier launch new “zero rating” video streaming services that test the boundaries of the FCC’s net neutrality policy: T-Mobile’s Binge On and Comcast’s Stream TV. According to published reports, FCC...
A welcome by our Department Head, Johannes Bauer: "I’d like to welcome Bianca C. (“Bibi”) Reisdorf, who last week arrived in East Lansing to join the Quello Center as a postdoc. Prior to coming the MSU, Bianca worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Media and...
Is Over-the-Air Radio Dying? A. Michael Noll November 2, 2015 © 2015 AMN Does the Internet and streaming mean that broadcast over-the-air radio is dying? History tells us that a new medium does not mean the death of old media. There usually is room for all, although...
The Department of Media and Information in the College of Communication at MSU is inviting applications for the Information and Media Studies PhD Program. This is one good way to get involved in Quello Center research projects. The Information and Media Studies PhD...