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21 Aug 2014

Michigan Broadband Conference, Capital Radison, Lansing, 29 October 2014

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Connect Michigan is hosting the 2014 Connect Michigan Broadband Summit, a non-profit organization tasked with facilitating the expansion of broadband access, adoption, and use throughout the state, will host a broadband and technology conference Wednesday, October 29, 2014. As its organisers note: “Broadband and technology are critical to positioning Michigan at the forefront of the digital economy.” The conference will bring together “community leaders from education, libraries, economic development, local government, healthcare, and technology sectors to share and learn cross-collaborative best practices for expanding broadband and technology access, adoption, and use and move Michigan to the forefront of the digital […]
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17 Aug 2014

Quello Director Receives 2014 William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association

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Bill Dutton, the new Director of the Quello Center, received the 2014 William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association, given by CITASA at the July 2014 ASA meeting. (CITASA is ASA’s section on Communication and Information Technology). A list of previous recipients is available at: http://www.asanet.org/sections/citasa_recipients_History.cfm Bill was unable to attend the meeting, given the timing coinciding with his move to MSU, but he sent these words of appreciation: “Dear Colleagues of CITASA, I would like to convey my appreciation to the selection committee and CITASA for honoring me with this career achievement award. It is […]
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17 Aug 2014

MSU’s Department of Media and Information – Early Reflections

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I am just beginning my tenure in the Department of Media and Information at MSU – literally my first days. However, I can already sense tremendous potential stemming from key features of its faculty. Most obviously, the department’s clear joining of media and information studies departs from a common albeit increasingly artificial division between schools of media and communication and schools of information. It makes no sense to separate broadcasting from social media or big data, for example. It is brilliant for these areas to be bridged within the department. To me, this represents one of the most strategically important […]
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16 Aug 2014

Policy and Regulation for a Mobile Society

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A new area of Quello research is focused on the history and future of mobile communication. Our early research has surfaced major issues over access, new digital divides, and issues of privacy and ownership. Early Publications Napoli, P. M., and Obar, J. A. (forthcoming), ‘The Emerging Mobile Internet Underclass: A Critique of Mobile Internet Access’, The Information Society. Dutton, W. H., with Ginette Law, Darja Groselj, Frank Hangler, and Gili Vidan (in progress), Mobile Communication Today and Tomorrow. Working Paper based on report supported by Huawei.  
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31 Jul 2014

Quello Events

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The Quello Center organises events such as seminars, lectures and workshops that support the development of research and its dissemination. The Quello Center seeks to use the Internet and related media, such as Webcasts, to enhance access to all of its events and activities.
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03 Jul 2014

Incoming Quello Director Receives Career Achievement Award

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William Dutton, incoming Director of MSU’s Quello Center, has been named the 2014 winner of the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award, presented by the Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA). The award recognizes a sustained body of research that has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the area of sociology of communications or the sociology of information technology. It is named for the late William F. Ogburn, former president of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Dutton will begin his new position as Director of the Quello Center in August, along […]
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13 May 2014

New Reports on Personal Data Focus on Trust, Privacy and Transparency

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William H. Dutton, incoming Director of MSU’s Quello Center, and Quello Chair of Media and Information Policy, was the lead author of one of three new reports released by the World Economic Forum on strengthening trust, transparency and privacy in personal data usage. The reports are part of the WEF’s Rethinking Personal Data initiative, which was launched in 2010. “I hope this initiative leads the industry and other key actors to assume leadership in addressing the concerns of users over their privacy and rights to free expression – concerns that are documented by our research,” Dutton said. “No one should […]
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05 May 2014

Net Neutrality: Will the way we use the Internet change?

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Jonathan Obar, a Quello Research Associate, spoke with WKAR regarding “net neutrality.” There has been a great deal of discussion around the idea of net neutrality and how it will affect people’s everyday use of the internet. Net neutrality is the debate over free use of the internet and has been going on for several years now. Jonathan’s interview provides a very accessible overview of the idea and the issues that have generated debate over the merits of net neutrality. Listen to Jonathan’s interview on WKAR.
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