by William Dutton | May 18, 2016 | Blog
Dr Bibi Reisdorf, Quello’s Post Doctoral Fellow, has been focused on digital inequalities from the earliest stages of her studies and subsequent career in academia. In a talk for the Department of Media and Information at MSU, Bibi provided an outline of her...
by William Dutton | May 16, 2016 | Blog
Professor Muzammil Hussain visited the Quello Center and gave an informative talk based on his new multi-year project on ‘Bio-Social Data Innovation & Governance in Asia’ (Big-DIG). The Big-DIG project seeks to use qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to...
by William Dutton | May 16, 2016 | Blog
Rob Ackland, a professor at the Australian National University, was able to visit the Quello Center in early May. In addition to kicking off a valuable roundtable discussion of digital social science, he also gave a very useful talk on social media and development at...
by William Dutton | May 10, 2016 | Blog
Great to visit with Professor Emeritus Steve Wildman today at the Quello Center. He came back to MSU for student dissertations and a viva, but colleagues and I were able to fill him in on recent developments. We had an interesting discussion of set top box decisions...
by William Dutton | May 8, 2016 | Blog
The Quello Center’s Assistant Research Professor, Aleks Yankelevich, has been appointed to an Adjunct Professor position by the Department of Economics at MSU. As the Chair of the Department of Economics, Professor Tim Vogelsang, the Addy Chair of Economics, put it:...
by William Dutton | May 7, 2016 | Blog
Claude E. Shannon: Cult Figure A. Michael Noll May 7, 2016 © 2016 AMN Has a cult developed, worshipping Shannon as the guru of information theory? April 28, 2016 would have been his 100th birthday and thus interest in him has exploded. Shannon is characterized an...
by William Dutton | May 6, 2016 | Blog
A great deal of funding has been devoted to stimulating the development of broadband Internet infrastructures and services in the United States. Federally funded initiatives have been studied and evaluated through dozens of studies. Jon Gant will discuss the lessons...
by Aleks Yankelevich | May 5, 2016 | Blog
Annie Waldherr presented a joint Media & Information and Quello Center seminar entitled “Discussing food safety in online issue networks: Empirical results and methodological prospects.” Her talk highlighted that civil society actors concerned about...
by William Dutton | Apr 28, 2016 | Blog
The Brazilian Professor Virgilio Almeida met with my media and information policy class today via Skype. As chair of the very successful NETmundial Internet governance conference in San Paulo in 2014, and chair of Brazil’s Internet Governance Committee (CGI.br), he is...
by William Dutton | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog
Optimism Prevails in Opinions on the Future of Detroit by Bill Dutton and Bibi Reisdorf, Quello Center, MSU Conversations about the prospects for Detroit’s future often expose a divide between those who see the city recovering from a decline in population and...
