Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet
“Net neutrality,” a dry but crucial standard of openness in network access, began as a technical principle informing obscure policy debates but became the flashpoint for an all-out political battle for the future of communications and culture. Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet is a critical cultural history of net neutrality that reveals how this intentionally “boring” world of internet infrastructure and regulation hides a fascinating and pivotal sphere of power, with lessons for communication and media scholars, activists, and anyone interested in technology and politics. While previous studies and academic discussions of net neutrality have been dominated by legal, economic, and technical perspectives, Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet offers a humanities-based critical theoretical approach, telling the story of how activists and millions of everyday people, online and in the streets, were able to challenge the power of the phone and cable corporations that historically dominated communications policy-making to advance equality and justice in media and technology.
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Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet
“Net neutrality,” a dry but crucial standard of openness in network access, began as a technical principle informing obscure policy debates but became the flashpoint for an all-out political battle for the future of communications and culture. Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet is a critical cultural history of net neutrality that reveals how this intentionally “boring” world of internet infrastructure and regulation hides a fascinating and pivotal sphere of power, with lessons for communication and media scholars, activists, and anyone interested in technology and politics. While previous studies and academic discussions of net neutrality have been dominated by legal, economic, and technical perspectives, Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet offers a humanities-based critical theoretical approach, telling the story of how activists and millions of everyday people, online and in the streets, were able to challenge the power of the phone and cable corporations that historically dominated communications policy-making to advance equality and justice in media and technology.
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Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet

Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet

by Danny Kimball
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Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet

Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet

by Danny Kimball

Overview

“Net neutrality,” a dry but crucial standard of openness in network access, began as a technical principle informing obscure policy debates but became the flashpoint for an all-out political battle for the future of communications and culture. Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet is a critical cultural history of net neutrality that reveals how this intentionally “boring” world of internet infrastructure and regulation hides a fascinating and pivotal sphere of power, with lessons for communication and media scholars, activists, and anyone interested in technology and politics. While previous studies and academic discussions of net neutrality have been dominated by legal, economic, and technical perspectives, Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet offers a humanities-based critical theoretical approach, telling the story of how activists and millions of everyday people, online and in the streets, were able to challenge the power of the phone and cable corporations that historically dominated communications policy-making to advance equality and justice in media and technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472902453
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 08/24/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 292
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Danny Kimball is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Goucher College.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
    The Broadband Battle
Chapter 1
    Democratic Communications Infrastructure, Discourse, Policy, and Advocacy
Chapter 2
    Defining Broadband
Chapter 3
    Clash of Titans or Best of Frenemies?
Chapter 4    
    Nuclear Net Neutrality
Chapter 5
    The Title II Turn
Chapter 6
    Organizing for Net Neutrality
Conclusion    
    Boring Points
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Allison Perlman

“Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet is a thorough, engaging, and important history of the battles over net neutrality in the US. It offers a capacious examination of the many actors, stakes, maneuvers, and decisions involved in the fight over whether the principles of openness, nondiscrimination, and equality will structure how the internet operates in the US.”
—Allison Perlman, author of Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles Over US Television

Victor Pickard

“In this fine study, Danny Kimball expertly illuminates how the fight for an open internet is inextricably bound up with the ongoing struggle for democracy. By uncovering the historical, cultural, and discursive roots of the net neutrality saga, this book provides invaluable lessons for those of us who envision a brighter digital future.”
—Victor Pickard, coauthor of After Net Neutrality: A New Deal for the Digital Age

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