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10
Dec

ePA Final Paper - Net Neutrality and Censorship

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Brandon C.
12-7-09
PAF 591 - ePA

Net Neutrality and Censorship: Will the Telecommunications Industry Become the Nations Censors?

The issue of network (net) neutrality is a confusing and complex topic that involves technology, law, economy, and ideology. While much of the content and use of the Internet has evolved dramatically over the past 40 to 50 years, the fundamental workings of it have not. Based upon the TCP/IP suite of network communications protocols, the architecture of the Internet, while being greatly expanded, has actually changed very little. Read the rest of this entry »

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15
Nov

Book Review - Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power by Sandra Braman

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Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power

Sandra Braman
MIT Press
569 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0262513241

In Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power, Sandra Braman presents a wealth of information on perspectives of viewing, interpreting, and managing information policy. Her central thesis is that the United States is evolving from a bureaucratic welfare state into an information state and that this transformation is having negative impacts on citizen interests. Braman details the dynamics of this shift over 500 pages of legal, social, and political analysis all through the frame of information policy as an avenue of power in historical and modern terms. At its base, information is the precursor to power and Change of State makes it clear that information policy is truly the politics of modern power. Read the rest of this entry »

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