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Retransmission Consent as Awards Show
A poster from an earlier retransmission consent battle Last Sunday was a double nail biter for Oscar enthusiasts who subscribed to Cablevision in the NYC metro area. Not only were they nervously...
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Winning Some Battles in the Copyfight
Some good news came from the battlefield that is media and technology policy recently: some important fair use rulings that help to hold off the ever expanding clutches of copyright. Through a nice...
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Of Pigs and BullSh*t: Fox Television Stations, Inc. v. FCC
The narrowly decided 1978 Pacifica decision was, from one perspective, a battle over pig metaphors. The majority decision, penned by Justice Stevens, sanctioned the FCC’s indecency policy on the...
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The ACTA Retreat: Their Ignorance, And Ours
Last week the U.S. apparently “caved” on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), intended to protect corporate intellectual “property.” Though only a partial retreat, it’s exciting that the...
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Report From Internet Research 11
Photo credit: Wrote's Flickr stream Last week, I joined 250 international scholars in Gothenburg, Sweden for Internet Research 11, the 2010 conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. The...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality
It’s been one year now since the FCC opened up the official policymaking process for net neutrality regulations on internet access. A lot has changed with the issue since then, but perhaps the biggest...
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Thoughts on the Intersection of Communication Research and Policy
Over the past few years, the field of communication has been engaged in a variety of collaborative initiatives, and quite a bit of self-examination, related to the issue of the field’s relevance to...
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SOPA: Just Say NOPA
Whatever you’ve been doing on the internet in the last few weeks, chances are you ran across something about SOPA. Whether it was in blacked-out tweets and status updates, at the top of Reddit, or...
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Why Verizon v. FCC Matters for Net Neutrality— and Why It Doesn’t
The battle over net neutrality (the vital principle that internet access providers should not interfere with what users do online) is heating back up. The FCC’s 2010 Open Internet rules ostensibly...
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Net Neutrality is Over— Unless You Want It
On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals tore out the heart of net neutrality. In the landmark Verizon v. FCC decision, the court struck down the FCC’s Open Internet rules— the hard-fought...
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