by William Dutton | Aug 22, 2015 | Blog
The Department of Media and Information at MSU is recruiting for three tenure-track positions. They are in the areas of: – media/information theory/research http://bit.ly/cas-theory – Internet economics http://bit.ly/cas-ie – health and data science...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Aug 16, 2015 | Blog
Though not as essential as drinking water, I consider both electricity and Internet access to be core infrastructure, with high fixed costs and providing general purpose support for the requirements of modern life. As the Internet expands to include networked “things”...
by William Dutton | Aug 14, 2015 | Blog
Using the Media, Internet and Debates to Inform Voters: A Series of Blogs Bill Dutton of the Quello Center, and Tracy Westen, founder of The Democracy Network and founder and CEO of The Center for Governmental Studies, have posted a series of blogs that take a...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Aug 13, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
After thinking and writing about the benefits of fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) networks for a number of years, I’m happy to report that I’ve finally joined the small but growing population of U.S. households connected to the Internet via fiber networks delivering...
by William Dutton | Aug 11, 2015 | Blog
Michael Noll has been teaching and conducting research on communication and technology since the early 1980s, most recently as a Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at USC. Prior to joining Annenberg, he was an...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Aug 9, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the design and management of society’s core infrastructure systems (which I define broadly to include things like healthcare, education, housing and “money”) in an era marked by several important trends (for reasons suggested...
