by William Dutton | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog, Quello Center, research
The Information and Media 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...
by William Dutton | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog, policy, research
Christine L. Borgman’s Quello Lecture on ‘Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data: Complexities and Contradictions in the Use of a Digital Data Archive’ presented for the Quello Center, Michigan State University, on October 5, 2016. The talk draws on her...
by William Dutton | Oct 23, 2016 | Blog
by A. Michael Noll October 23, 2016 © 2016 AMN One can only wonder in amazement over the Hollywood fever that seems to afflict communications business in the United States. The proposed acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T shows that the disease is still...
by William Dutton | Oct 22, 2016 | Blog, Media and Information Department
Johannes Bauer on Meaningful Play 2016 Thanks to Brian, Casey and Carrie (the three co-chairs of Meaningful Play 2016) as well as all other faculty and students (among them Valeta, Will, Andrew, Luke, Jeremy, Ricardo, Robby, Wei, Constantinos, and many others) who...
by William Dutton | Oct 7, 2016 | Blog
Access Is Not Content A. Michael Noll October 7, 2016 © 2016 AMN Twenty years ago in 1994, Bell Atlantic almost purchased John Malone’s company TCI—but sane minds ultimately prevailed. However, in 2000, Time Warner merged with AOL, and nine years later broke up. And...
by William Dutton | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog, Quello Center
James Spaniolo is moving back to Texas, accepting the position as President and CEO of the North Texas Commission, a public/private partnership composed of 300 members including, private companies, cities, chambers of commerce and higher education institutions. While...
by William Dutton | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
Twitter Poll: Before, During, and After the First 2016 Presidential Debate Thanks to those who participated in our Twitter poll conducted before, during, and after the first 2016 US Presidential Debate on 26 September 2016. Working with Jay Blumler and his colleagues...
by William Dutton | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, engineering, research
A Challenge to Virtual Reality A. Michael Noll September 26, 2016 © 2016 AMN Is today’s virtual reality little more than real fantasy? Back in the 1960s, Maurice Constant of the National Film board of Canada visited Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New...
by William Dutton | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog
With the start of a new academic year, the Quello Center is progressing on many fronts, but particularly in the development of new research. Given awards for two recent projects, one on wireless access for the last mile, and another on the role of search in shaping...
by Aleks Yankelevich | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog
A number of colleagues and I recently completed work on a large grant proposal, and as is typical with grant proposals and research more broadly, a lot of worthwhile research that went in did not survive the final cut. In this case, one of the core sources of data...
