by Mitchell Shapiro | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
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...
by Aleks Yankelevich | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog
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...
by William Dutton | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog
‘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...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Nov 24, 2015 | Blog
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...
by William Dutton | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
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...
by William Dutton | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog
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...
