by Mitchell Shapiro | May 25, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve long been an enthusiastic supporter of using information and communication technology to support healthcare, education and political and economic empowerment. My interest dates back to 1982, when I wrote a graduate school paper entitled The Human Development...
by William Dutton | May 23, 2015 | Blog
There is a possible economic solution to spam, which is to make email more like postal mail. Postal mail requires a stamp – email should require a fee paid by the sender, in effect, an email stamp. With postal mail, the charges to deliver are collected by the Postal...
by Mitchell Shapiro | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
I recently read a paper entitled “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid” by Timothy Schoechle. Though the paper’s primary focus is the electricity industry, it seems a fitting topic for the Quello Center blog because it raises important questions about how best...
by William Dutton | May 19, 2015 | Blog
Please join Communication Arts & Sciences at MSU at our annual reception at the ICA in San Juan, Friday, May 22, 9:00-11:00 pm, Caribe Hilton, San Cristobal Ballroom AEFG.
by Mitchell Shapiro | May 14, 2015 | Blog
In an earlier post I discussed the FCC’s recent decision to open up 150 MHz of spectrum in the 3550-3700 MHz band for unlicensed “General Authorized Access” usage as the lowest-priority usage category in a new three-tier model that includes protections for incumbent...
by William Dutton | May 8, 2015 | Blog
The Quello Roundtable on Powerful (Social) Media Effects generated an odd juxtaposition of positions in the discussion: on the one hand the premise for the roundtable was rooted in the old (irrelevant?) theoretical conceptions of the traditional media and its...
