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30 Oct 2014

New Research Specialist Joining the Quello Team: Mitch Shapiro

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Mitch Shapiro is joining the Quello Research Squad as a research specialist. He will be working with colleagues on a new project for the Center, an exploration of the role of collaborative networks in the revitalization of Detroit. This work is part of Bill Dutton’s project with the Danish Technical University (DTU) on collaborative network organizations. Mitchell has been a consultant with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, on national broadband access and competitive policy issues, and with broadband mapping projects in Kentucky and Louisiana. He has also worked with Strategic Networks Group and Pulse Broadband; […]
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28 Oct 2014

Digital Media Innovation and the Politics of Regulation by Avshalom Ginosar

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Is there any place for media regulation in the era of the Internet? And if the answer is ‘yes’ – what shape should it have? Is there any partisan political influence on the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), an independent agency? And if ‘yes’ – what sort of influence? Each of these questions stood at the core of two separate seminars that took place today at the Quello Center. The first was a VIPP seminar, conducted by Prof. Steve Wildman and focused on the requirements for new regulation following the tremendous changes in media technologies as well as in media consumption. […]
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26 Oct 2014

The Future of Video Games

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There was an excellent op-ed feature in the NYT today, entitled ‘Can Video Games Survive?‘, by Chris Suellentrop. He is a game critic and completely engaged in the video game culture, but worried about the future of this media. His concerns are based on the ugly rupture that emerged around #gamergate, as one of the more recent examples of threats and mean spirited messages emerging within the gamer community. He is not alone, as illustrated by the Quello Lecture on 15 October by Professor Lisa Nakamura, with which our speaker was able to draw attention to the issues emerging around […]
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17 Oct 2014

Looking Back at the Future of the Field by Avshalom Ginosar

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The headline above was the title of a Quello Center roundtable discussion this afternoon, with the participation of several senior figures of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, chaired by Professor William Dutton. Here are some of my reflections as an outsider – listener: First, pay attention to the fact that the topic is “the future of the field“. Is it clear to everyone what field we are talking about? Obviously, you think of “Communication” as the “field”; however it is not so obvious, and what Communication is, as an academic field, is not so obvious as well. Actually, […]
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16 Oct 2014

ICT4D in Agriculture by Avshalom Ginosar

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Do you have any idea what ICT4DAg is? Well, I have had no idea until I attended a fascinating seminar with Professor Charles Steinfield that focused on his projects in sub-Saharan countries. It was the third Quello/Law School VIPP seminar. So, all of you are familiar with ICT, and ICT4Ag stands for ICT for Development in Agriculture. And in simple words, Prof. Steinfield and his colleagues study the use of new communication technologies and devices – mobile phones in particular – in rural areas in East Africa. However, they do not study merely the social uses; rather, what is more […]
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16 Oct 2014

Reflections on the Quello Lecture on Racism and Sexism in the Gamer Community by Avshalom Ginosar

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  “Racism, Sexism, and Video Games: Social Justice Campaigns and the Struggle for Gamer Identity”. This was the title of the first Quello Lecture for the new academic year. Professor Lisa Nakamura introduced several extreme examples of sexism and racism, but the real issue of the lecture and of the audience’s comments was not merely the prominence of some very ugly and disgusting phenomena in the gaming world. Rather, it was the interface between the gaming universe and the real world; it was about culture and culture wars, about social justice warriors, about women and men, about feminism and anti-feminism, […]
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09 Oct 2014

Michigan Broadband Conference on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 by Johannes Bauer

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I want to draw your attention to the upcoming Michigan Broadband Conference on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 9:00-5:00 pm at the Radisson Hotel in Lansing. Bill Dutton will be one of the opening speakers; we organized a breakout session on Mobile Broadband , moderated by Shelia Cotten also featuring Steve Wildman (10:30-11:15 am) and Christian Sandvig from University of Michigan, a leading scholar of infrastructure studies. Students can register on a complimentary basis (please use promotional code: student2014), the rest of us can register for $25.00 (still a great deal). See http://www.connectmi.org/broadband-summit for more details and to register. Johannes Bauer
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06 Oct 2014

The Center’s New Office and Events Coordinator: Alison Hartman Keesey

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The Quello Center is pleased to announce the forthcoming appointment of Alison Hartman Keesey to a new position of Quello Center Office and Events Coordinator. Ms Keesey will support the Director and Center across the full range of its activities from 13 October 2014. As you can see from her brief biographical sketch, below, Alison brings academic training together with experience in key areas critical to the Quello Center, including the study of public policy and regulation, and the conduct of research and the legislative and policy process in local and international contexts, while also having practical experience in key […]
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02 Oct 2014

Big Data, Journalism, and All That’s in Between by Avshalom Ginosar

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Does anyone know anything about ‘Big Data’? No, don’t jump, I know, everyone knows something. Sure, Big Data has become a BUZZ-word and it is hard to admit that you heard something about it but you don’t really know what it is. And now, to another question with an obvious answer: what is Journalism? Yeh, yeh, I know, this is already an insulting question. Everyone reads a newspaper, watches TV news, and even reads some news online. Sure, everyone knows what Journalism is. So, here is a third question, a really tough one: how does Journalism relate to Big Data? […]
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30 Sep 2014

Public Domain(s): Conference at MSU College of Law, 2, 3 October 2014

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Professor Adam Candeub, Director of the Intellectual Property, Information & Communications Law Program in MSU’s College of Law, has organised a very promising event for the 2nd and 3rd of October, entitled ‘Public Domain(s): Law, Generating Knowledge in the Information Economy‘. In addition to Adam, speakers include: Johannes M. Bauer, Chairperson of the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, & Media, Michigan State University; John F. Blevins, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law; Bruce Boyden, Assistant Professor, Marquette University Law School; Daniel Brenner, Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court; Annemarie Bridy, Alan G. Sheppard Professor of […]
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