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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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29 Sep 2014

Creating a James H. Quello Digital Collection

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The Quello Center has a unique collection of speeches, statements, audio and video recordings, and other documents from James H. Quello’s decades in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). We are developing a proposal to convert these documents and video recordings to an openly accessible digital collection, and invite colleagues and students who wish to gain experience in digital archiving to join us. We would welcome expressions of interest, tips on current technique, and recommendations of experts we should consult.
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24 Sep 2014

Understanding US Regulation Across Language and Cultural Boundaries by Avshalom Ginosar

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Understanding US Regulation Across Language and Cultural Boundaries by Avshalom Ginosar One American law professor, two representatives of SK Telcom from Korea, and one Israeli visiting scholar at MSU … It might sound like the beginning of an old joke (at least in Hebrew). But it is not! These were the four participants in the last meeting of the Quello / MSU Law VIPP Seminar, organized for our Korean visitors. The host was Prof. Adam Candeub from the College of Law at MSU and the talk was in two parts, focused on the topics of “US Internet and Content Regulation” and […]
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22 Sep 2014

Visiting Scholar, Young-jun Choi, Builds on Quello Center Work on ICT and Development

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The Quello Center is joined this academic year by Young-jun Choi, a professor in the Department of International Business and Trade at Kyung Hee University in Korea. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Quello Center, focusing on his research. Young-jun received his Ph. D in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His major research areas are applied microeconomics and international economics. At the Quello Center, he is pursing his research on the economic implications of the emergence of e-marketplaces and his research in international trade in the film industry, which has been supported by several […]
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20 Sep 2014

The FCC’s David Bray to give a Quello Lecture in March 2015

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David Bray, the CIO of the FCC, will deliver at Quello Lecture on ‘Digital Age Public Service and Information Leadership: Opportunities, Challenges, and Prospects‘ on March 27th for the Quello Center in association with the Annual Conference of the International Telecommunications and Education Research Association (ITERA). The talk will be held at the Crown Plaza National Airport Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, in the late morning, tentatively set for 11:00 am – 12:00 pm.   David was a Visiting Doctoral Student at the Oxford Internet Institute when Bill Dutton was Director, enabling them to work together on a project focused on collaborative or […]
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17 Sep 2014

Avshalom Ginosar, Visiting Fellow at the Quello Center

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Avshalom Ginosar, a Senior Lecturer in Israel, is visiting MSU’s Department of Media and Information this year, focusing his research on media governance, policy and regulation, all topics aligned well with the Quello Center, where Avshalom will be based. Avshalom most recently developed a framework for classifying and analyzing media systems based on the concept of governance as conceived in public policy theory. He is studying the positions and perceptions of media regulators with respect to the public interest(s) they should preserve and promote. This has been an enduring issue for US regulation, and therefore promises to be of interest […]
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