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01 Feb 2016

What is ‘Special Access’ and Why is It So Important? by Aleks Yankelevich

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Dr Aleks Yankelevich gave a one hour Quello Center brown-bag presentation entitled “Regulating the Intranet: What is Special Access and Why is it Important?” (yes Intranet, not Internet) on January 26th 2016. His talk clarified the concept of special access, how it is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission, and ended with some ideas on research that might focus on this relatively under-researched area. Aleksandr Yankelevich – Regulating the Internet – What is Special Access And Why Is It Important from Quello Center on Vimeo. Special access lines are dedicated high-capacity connections used by businesses and institutions to transmit their […]
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16 Jan 2016

Congratulations to MSU, WKAR, and the Future of Public Broadcasting

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The Quello Center congratulates all those involved in discussions at MSU on the university’s response to the FCC spectrum incentive auction. The university’s leadership, including the Board of Trustees, carefully considered its options, and the opportunities and prospects attached to each path forward for WKAR, MSU’s public television and radio station, and the university. Its leadership decided to bypass the incentive auction as it realized the incredible potential tied to linking visions of MSU’s outreach to the community, and its educational and related research initiatives, to the innovative use of public broadcasting facilities in Lansing and Detroit. Central to its […]
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06 Jan 2016

The FCC Spectrum Auction and the Future of Public Broadcasting: The Case at MSU and Greater Lansing

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Michigan State University (MSU) held a lively forum on 4 January 2016 to discuss the pending decision by the university on whether or not to participate in the FCC’s spectrum incentive auction. A second forum will be held on the 11th of January at 7pm in the College of Communication Arts & Sciences. What might sound like a technically and financially arcane set of issues came to life for many in the questions of the 300 some participants who packed the auditorium on the 4th of January. It appeared as if every-other person attending the forum had their hand up […]
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27 Dec 2015

The Global Agenda and the Quello Center by Evelyne Cudel

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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 reflection: The First World Humanitarian Summit will be held on 23 and 24 May 2016 in Istanbul: a call for action by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/ The event has been planned for years. The UN Synthetic Report (Geneva, October 6, 2015) “called for action around five key concepts: dignity, safety, resilience, partnership and finance.” The data: “our world […]
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23 Dec 2015

Featured Publication: Governance of Social Media

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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 by the editors, as well as Philip Napoli, Laura DeNardis, Milton Mueller, and Katherine Montegomery, among others. It is a brilliant signpost of how the Quello Center is moving fully into the digital age of policy and regulation issues. You may find the special issue at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03085961/39/9
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08 Dec 2015

What If No Electrical Grid? by A. Michael Noll

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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 was never invented or implemented?” The alternating current (AC) system (pioneered by Tesla, Westinghouse, and Edison a century ago) was based on a centralized power plant with electrical power then distributed by wires over distances to homes and businesses. Suppose this system was never invented or implemented. Suppose a button was pushed and […]
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26 Nov 2015

‘3D Yet Again’ by A. Michael Noll

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‘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 both a Tru-View stereoscope that used 35mm filmstrips and also a View-Master™ stereoscope that used small images on disks. They both presented separate pictures for the left and right eyes that created the feeling of stereoscopic depth. While employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey during the1960s, I programmed the computer there to […]
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19 Nov 2015

Welcome to Dr Bianca Reisdorf: Quello’s New Team Member

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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 Communication at Leicester University, UK. Bianca’s research interests include digital inequalities and policies, Internet use among vulnerable groups, and cross-national comparative studies that apply both qualitative and quantitative methods. She has been involved in the research project “Access Denied: A Qualitative Study of Inadequate Broadband Access in Rural Britain” (http://rural.oii.ox.ac.uk/) and she currently […]
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02 Nov 2015

Is Over-the-Air Radio Dying? by A. Michael Noll

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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 some evolutionary morphing usually does occur. The challenge is understanding and predicting that change – and benefitting from it. What is radio? Is it the radio waves and modulation technique of amplitude modulation AM) or frequency modulation (FM)? Does it mean the content that is packaged and transmitted to a broad audience? Does […]
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27 Oct 2015

Doctoral Study at MSU in Department of Media and Information

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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 program at Michigan State University seeks outstanding students who wish to join a unique interdisciplinary program of study at the intersection of the social sciences and technical systems. The faculty develop and apply research about media and society and evolving information and communication technologies to important problems. The program engages students to become active scholars, teachers, and […]
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