Regulating the Web | Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet

Zack Stiegler

ISBN 10: 0739178687 / ISBN 13: 9780739178683

Published by Lexington Books, 2012

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Regulating the Web | Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet | Zack Stiegler | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2012 | Lexington Books | EAN 9780739178683 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Regulating the Web | Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739178687
• ISBN 13: 9780739178683
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 20D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 587 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Since its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network management that would permit them to discriminate the quality and speed of access to online content as they saw fit. In response, the Federal Communications Commission sought to enshrine “net neutrality” in regulatory policy as a means of preserving the Internet’s open, nondiscriminatory characteristics. Although the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internet’s structure. Regulating the Web brings together a diverse collection of scholars who examine the net neutrality policy and surrounding debates from a variety of perspectives. In doing so, the book contributes to the ongoing discourse about net neutrality in the hopes that we may continue to work toward preserving a truly open Internet structure in the United States.

About the Authors

Patrick Schmidt is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Tina Sikka is Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice at Newcastle University, UK.