by Ashley Wilson | Aug 22, 2023 | News
A new study from Michigan State University warns that gains made to address broadband and internet connectivity in Michigan rural communities are beginning to fade.According to MSU research, one in three, or 32.5%, of rural students still lack adequate, fast broadband...
by Ashley Wilson | Mar 3, 2023 | News
Reposted from the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society Daily Beat, February 28, 2023 (access original post here). © Benton Institute for Broadband & Society 2023.” The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which includes the Digital Equity Act of...
by Ashley Wilson | Aug 8, 2022 | Awards, News
Keith N. Hampton receives the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D. has been selected as this year’s recipient of...
by Ashley Wilson | Jul 19, 2022 | News
The award was presented at the 12th International Conference on Social Media & Society to Keith Hampton and Inyoung Shin for the Best Paper entitled “Excessive Social Media Use is Less Harmful than Disconnection for the Self Esteem of Rural Adolescents”....
by Ashley Wilson | Jun 27, 2022 | News
Project to create Michigan Open Optical Network – Leveraging Innovation to Get High-Speed Technology (MOON-Light) East Lansing, Mich., June 27, 2022 – Merit Network and Michigan State University are joint recipients of a $10.5 million National Telecommunications and...
