East Lansing, December 2025. MSUToday has published a helpful summary of new research findings from earlier this year with Keith Hampton and Kelley Cotter. The study confirms a key finding: young people from rural areas who attend university develop more racially and...
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Quello Center researchers will have a strong presence at the 53rd Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy in Washington, D.C., September 19-20, 2025. From the left: Jean Hardy, Alexis Schrubbe, Johannes M. Bauer, Angie Nam, Grant Blank,...
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Quello Center releases a data collection checklist and a revised and updated version of the IIJA Assessment Framework
East Lansing, July 7, 2025 In response to the BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice of June 6, 2025, the Quello Center released a revised and updated version of its framework for the assessment of the effects of the Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act of 2021 on...
Safeguarding State Broadband Goals After the BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice
Johannes M. Bauer, June 27, 2025 Key points The rules established in the BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice for reasonable costs create contradictory incentives that may result in inefficient outcomes. To avoid undesirable outcomes, states should, as far as possible...
New Paper: Rethinking screen time and academic achievement: gender differences and the hidden benefit of online leisure through digital skills
East Lansing, June 2025. In a new, peer reviewed publication, Quello Center researchers Gabriel Hales and Keith Hampton argue that it’s time to rethink the conventional moral panic surrounding screen time and academic achievement. The prevailing focus on displacement...
Ending Digital Equity Funding Would Harm America
The Digital Equity Act of 2021 appropriated $2.75 billion to support programs to improve the ability of covered populations, including older Americans, veterans, individuals living in rural areas, individuals with disabilities, low-income households, and members of...
Steps towards a workable national information policy
Johannes M. Bauer Changes in government usually motivate stakeholders to generate wish lists and recommendations for the new administration. This transition is no different, with numerous think tanks and advocacy groups in op eds, white papers, panel discussions and...







