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...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 16, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
In an earlier post I described the BTOP Comprehensive Community Infrastructure (CCI) program as a “very good investment of public funds.” My reasons were twofold, the first one being that it expanded the availability of high-speed connectivity in underserved areas,...
