Quello Assistant Director to Present Research Findings at TPRC Capitol Hill Briefing

23 Aug 2017

Quello Assistant Director to Present Research Findings at TPRC Capitol Hill Briefing

2017-08-23
Bianca Reisdorf
Blog, Department of Media & Information, policy, Quello Center, research

Dr. Bianca (Bibi) Reisdorf, Quello Assistant Director and Assistant Professor in Media and Information, has been invited to present her research findings on race and digital inequalities at the TPRC Capitol Hill Briefing on Thursday, September 7, 2017. Each year, the TPRC (The 45th Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy) panel invites four conference presenters to discuss how their research affects policies at a briefing on Capitol Hill on the day prior to the main conference. This year’s discussion will be moderated by Dr. Carleen Maitland (Pennsylvania State University), who is also the current chair of the TPRC. Speakers include […]

25 Apr 2017

Quello Lecture by Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation (the uncut version)

On April 11th, 2017, Richard Stallman, the President and Founder of the Free Software Foundation, gave a Quello Lecture at Michigan State University on “A Free Digital Society”. Here is the unedited version of this full talk, which you are free to use for educational purposes. The first hour is focus on ‘free software’, and the second hour moves into the discussion of surveillance, censorship, problems with Internet services, and discussion of electronic voting, and the war on sharing. There is also a short video of an interview with Richard here. Richard Stallman talk at MSU from Quello Center on […]

25 Mar 2017

A Click Away from the Quello Center: Founding Director Steve Wildman

Emeritus Professor Steve Wildman, who held the Quello Chair of Telecommunication Studies at MSU, and was founding Director of the Quello Center, may be away, but he has certainly not stopped contributing to studies of policy and practice. He remains active in our Advisory Board, contributes as an affiliated faculty member to the Silicon Flatirons Center where he is also a Visiting Scholar in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This spring, Steve will be teaching a two-week graduate class in information technology and the organization of economic activity at the University of Cologne. The class […]

13 Feb 2017

Missing the Internet

2017-02-13
William Dutton
Blog, policy

A BBC reporter, Rachel Nuwer, wrote a nice piece on what would it mean to people if the Internet stopped working. It was entitled “What if the Internet Stopped for a Day“. I stressed that there are some empirical cases, such as a power outage in NYC, and the pager blackout across the US, that provide some concrete evidence of possible outcomes, and I was impressed how well she embedded these cases and more in a well developed article. I recommend it. Bill Dutton See: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170207-what-if-the-internet-stopped-for-a-day

24 Jan 2017

Media and Information Policy Issues

2017-01-24
William Dutton
Blog, Media and Information Department, Mobile Policy and Regulation, Net Neutrality, policy, Quello Center, research

From discussions in courses and within the Quello Center Advisory Board, the Center has been developing a set of key issues tied to media, communication and information policy and practice. We’d welcome you thoughts on issues we’ve missed or issues noted that do not merit more sustained research and debate. Your feedback on this list would be most welcome, and will be posted as comments on this post. I. Innovation-led Policy Issues New Developments around Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: What are the implications for individual control, privacy, and security? Security is no longer so clearly a cyber issue as cyber […]

24 Oct 2016

Christine L. Borgman’s Quello Lecture on Data Sharing

Christine L. Borgman’s Quello Lecture on ‘Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data: Complexities and Contradictions in the Use of a Digital Data Archive’ presented for the Quello Center, Michigan State University, on October 5, 2016. The talk draws on her research with DANS, the Data Archiving and Networked Services of the Netherlands, and the UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures. Christine L. Borgman – Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data from Quello Center on Vimeo. Abstract Researchers face competing challenges for access to their data. One is the pressure to make their data open in response to mandates from funding agencies, […]

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