. . . And Communications for All

In this book, sixteen leading communications policy scholars present a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the new federal administration. The articles address a range of topics, including network neutrality, rural connectivity, media ownership, minority ownership, spectrum policy, universal broadband policy, and media for children.

In . . . And Communications for All, 16 leading communications policy scholars present a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the new federal administration. This agenda emphasizes the potential of information technologies to improve democratic discourse, social responsibility, and the quality of life along with the means by which it can be made available to all Americans. Schejter has assembled an analysis of the reasons for the failure of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and offers an international benchmark for the future of telecommunications. Addressing a range of topics, including network neutrality, rural connectivity, media ownership, minority ownership, spectrum policy, universal broadband policy, and media for children, it articulates a comprehensive vision for the United States as a twenty-first-century information society that is both internally inclusive and globally competitive.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Frameworks
Chapter 3 Broadband, Internet, and Universal Service: Challenges to the Social Contract of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 4 Digital Media, Modern Democracy, and Our Truncated National Debate
Chapter 5 Public Scholarship and the Communications Policy Agenda
Chapter 6 International Benchmarks: The Crisis in U.S. Communications Policy through a Comparative Lens
Chapter 7 Infastructures and Industries
Chapter 8 Competition and Investment in Wireline Broadband
Chapter 9 U.S. Cable TV Policy: Managing the Transition to Broadband
Chapter 10 A Spectrum Policy Agenda
Chapter 11 The Way Forward for Wireless
Chapter 12 Rethinking the Media Ownership Policy Agenda
Chapter 13 Access
Chapter 14 Universal Service
Chapter 15 America's Forgotten Challenge: Rural Access
Chapter 16 Municipal Broadband
Chapter 17 The Future of the E-Rate: U.S. Universal Service Fund Support for Public Access and Social Services
Chapter 18 Content
Chapter 19 Public Service Media 2.0
Chapter 20 Creating a Media Policy Agenda for the Digital Generation
Chapter 21 Race and Media: Several Key Proposals for the Next Administration