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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aHE7645 _b.K453 2022
100	1		_aKimball, Danny, _d1983- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNet neutrality and the battle for the open internet / _cDanny Kimball.
260			_c©2022
264		1	_aAnn Arbor : _bUniversity of Michigan Press, _c©2022
300			_aix, 279 pages : _billustrations _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.
505	0		_aMachine generated contents note: 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.
520			_a""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 Struggle 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 Struggle for the Open Internet offers a humanities-based critical theoretical approach to net neutrality, 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"--
520			_a""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 Struggle 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 Struggle for the Open Internet offers a humanities-based critical theoretical approach to net neutrality, 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"--
650		0	_aNetwork neutrality _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aInternet and activism.
650		0	_aInternet _xAccess control _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aInternet service providers.
650		0	_aPolitical activists.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLAW / Computer & Internet _2bisacsh
655		0	_2local _94 _aPrint books.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aKimball, Daniel Joseph, 1983- _tNet neutrality and the struggle for the open internet _dAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022 _z9780472902453 _w(DLC) 2022008885
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