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04 Dec 2015

Delivering Pizza Without Offering Pizza Delivery

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Having appreciated my colleague Aleks’ Yankelevich’s creative use of a “food” metaphor to explain an important aspect of economic analysis, I thought it fitting, on the day of oral arguments in the legal challenge to the FCC’s Open Internet Order, to consider another effective use of such a metaphor:  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the Brand X case.  Whereas the majority opinion in that case deferred to an earlier FCC ruling that Internet access was an “information” rather than a “telecommunication” service, Scalia–joined by two liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter–argued that the majority’s view was akin to accepting a claim by […]
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02 Dec 2015

Aleks Yankelevich’s First Blog Post (Chipotle, Market Definition, and Digital Inequality)

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Growing up, my parents, brother, and I usually avoided restaurants. For my parents, this was initially out of necessity; as Soviet refugees, they did not have the financial means to eat out. However, even having achieved a modicum of success, my parents are not generally in the habit of frequenting restaurants, having perhaps out of a lifetime habit, developed a taste for home cooking. Restaurants are exclusively for special occasions. Thus, having never eaten at a Chipotle Mexican Grill, they were sufficiently impressed by the restaurant’s façade to wish to eat there, but only when the grand occasion merits such […]
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26 Nov 2015

‘3D Yet Again’ by A. Michael Noll

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‘3D Yet Again’ A. Michael Noll November 26, 2015 © 2015 AMN Stereoscopic 3D has always created a strong fascination with its feelings of depth and realism. Today it has morphed into the hype of something called “holographic enhanced virtual reality.” As a child, I had both a Tru-View stereoscope that used 35mm filmstrips and also a View-Master™ stereoscope that used small images on disks. They both presented separate pictures for the left and right eyes that created the feeling of stereoscopic depth. While employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey during the1960s, I programmed the computer there to […]
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24 Nov 2015

Testing the Limits of Net Neutrality Rules

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In the past few weeks we’ve seen both a wireless and wireline carrier launch new “zero rating” video streaming services that test the boundaries of the FCC’s net neutrality policy: T-Mobile’s Binge On and Comcast’s Stream TV. According to published reports, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has praised Binge On as “highly innovative” and “highly competitive,” while also noting that the Commission will continue to monitor the service under its “general conduct” rule. According to Ars Technica, an FCC spokesperson declined comment on Comcast’s Stream TV, which does not count against the company’s data caps. The FCC’s reported response to the two […]
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19 Nov 2015

Welcome to Dr Bianca Reisdorf: Quello’s New Team Member

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A welcome by our Department Head, Johannes Bauer: “I’d like to welcome Bianca C. (“Bibi”) Reisdorf, who last week arrived in East Lansing to join the Quello Center as a postdoc. Prior to coming the MSU, Bianca worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at Leicester University, UK. Bianca’s research interests include digital inequalities and policies, Internet use among vulnerable groups, and cross-national comparative studies that apply both qualitative and quantitative methods. She has been involved in the research project “Access Denied: A Qualitative Study of Inadequate Broadband Access in Rural Britain” (http://rural.oii.ox.ac.uk/) and she currently […]
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02 Nov 2015

Is Over-the-Air Radio Dying? by A. Michael Noll

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Is Over-the-Air Radio Dying? A. Michael Noll November 2, 2015 © 2015 AMN Does the Internet and streaming mean that broadcast over-the-air radio is dying? History tells us that a new medium does not mean the death of old media. There usually is room for all, although some evolutionary morphing usually does occur. The challenge is understanding and predicting that change – and benefitting from it. What is radio? Is it the radio waves and modulation technique of amplitude modulation AM) or frequency modulation (FM)? Does it mean the content that is packaged and transmitted to a broad audience? Does […]
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27 Oct 2015

Doctoral Study at MSU in Department of Media and Information

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The Department of Media and Information in the College of Communication at MSU is inviting applications for the Information and Media Studies PhD Program. This is one good way to get involved in Quello Center research projects. The Information and Media Studies 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 media and society and evolving information and communication technologies to important problems. The program engages students to become active scholars, teachers, and […]
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25 Oct 2015

Response to the House of Lords Inquiry on Online Platforms and a EU Single Market

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Responses to Questions on the Inquiry into ‘Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market’ by the Internal Market Subcommittee of the Select Committee on the European Union, House of Lords [For background see the Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe] Submitted by Professor William H. Dutton and Professor Thomas D. Jeitschko, Quello Center, Michigan State University, USA. Electronic marketplaces and online platforms are relatively new formats for exchange, and require far more research on their use and impact before there is clarity on their effective regulation and governance. A central motivation for a single market for Europe is the […]
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19 Oct 2015

Bill Dutton at Hong Kong Baptist University as Institute for Creativity Distinguished Visitor

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I have just completed a stimulating and informative visit to Hong Kong as the 2015 Institute of Creativity Distinguished Visitor at Hong Kong Baptist University. It was an honor but also an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and developments in research across the country. I gave a public lecture on the work we did for UNESCO’s Internet Study, a seminar on my conception of the Fifth Estate, and a final roundtable discussion of doctoral student research. Faculty and doctoral students in the School of Communication were the primary audience, and I was impressed with the range of Internet studies […]
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10 Oct 2015

Advisory Board Member John D. Evans Named to Cable Hall of Fame

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The Quello Center congratulates our Advisory Board Member, John D. Evans, Chairman and CEO, Evans Telecommunications Co., on being honored by inclusion in the Cable Center’s Hall of Fame Class of 2016. The Cable Hall of Fame ‘recognizes those ground-breaking leaders who have shaped and advanced our industry. Induction into the Cable Hall of Fame is one of the industry’s highest and most exclusive honors.’ John was happy for me to share this news with the Advisory Board and friends and colleagues of the Quello Center, noting that ‘… Jim Quello for over 40 years (from when I was a […]
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