Democracy in the Age of the Internet: An Analysis of the Net Neutrality Debate of 2006
Jeffrey Hart
2:00-3:30 pm on Friday, November 16, 2007
Indiana University Bloomington, Herman B. Wells Library, Room LI 001
Refreshments will be available prior to the talk at 1:45 pm.
Students are invited to stay following the talk for informal discussion.
ABSTRACT
In 2006, a major telecommunications bill failed because it did not include guarantees for something called “net neutrality.” The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain the politics behind the net neutrality debate of 2006 and to predict its likely future course. The full paper is available as part of the RKCSI Working Paper series at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/1835.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Jeffrey Hart is professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington and a member of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Advisory Committee. He has conducted research in international politics, international political economy and the politics of high technology industries for more than 25 years. His professional career has focused on the politics of international economic competitiveness in advanced industrial nations, and, specifically, on the politics of software, hardware, and telecommunications. He has recently completed a project on globalization and published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press, a book on the politics of high definition television (HDTV) titled Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV. For more information on his research and other interests, see http://php.indiana.edu/~hartj/.
