The document provides a history of communications technologies like speech, writing, publishing, and the internet. It discusses the creation of ARPANET in the 1960s, which laid the foundations for the internet. The introduction of the World Wide Web in the 1990s allowed anyone to create a website and catalyzed explosive growth of the internet. However, powerful industries now seek to undermine net neutrality principles to gain control over internet access and favor their own services, threatening the open nature of the internet. Grassroots activism has helped educate the public and resist efforts to gut net neutrality protections.
Net Neutrality PPT presentation in MIS 3305 on Oct. 13, 2015. Explanation is needed for various slides. However, this slide show presents an overview of what net neutrality is, how the internet works, how ISPs have throttled content providers data traveling through their networks, and the FCC's ruling over the issue.
Net Neutrality PPT presentation in MIS 3305 on Oct. 13, 2015. Explanation is needed for various slides. However, this slide show presents an overview of what net neutrality is, how the internet works, how ISPs have throttled content providers data traveling through their networks, and the FCC's ruling over the issue.
Just heard about something called NetNeutrality? Want to know more? This presentation includes everything you need including some of interesting facts & contributions done by our volunteers.
Net Neutrality and the Future of the InternetMercatus Center
Net neutrality regulations would mandate that essentially all data on the Internet be treated the same by Internet service providers (ISPs), with many supporters calling on the FCC to prohibit “Internet fast lanes.” But are there situations in which different treatment of broadband traffic is good? What role should the government play in ever-changing broadband markets?
It is a Presentation On Net Neutrality...
CONTENTS:-
*What is Net Neutrality?
*Why Net Neutrality is important?
*Net Neutrality in India
*History
*TRAI rules in favor of Net Neutrality
*Why should we care?
-Sourav Dey
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MY LAST 25 YEARS INTERNET PAPERS MODELS - NEXT INTERNET MODELS FOR WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNET FOR GROWTH ONE WORLD ONE INTERNET ONE LOCAL ECONOMY AND INNOVATION
Just heard about something called NetNeutrality? Want to know more? This presentation includes everything you need including some of interesting facts & contributions done by our volunteers.
Net Neutrality and the Future of the InternetMercatus Center
Net neutrality regulations would mandate that essentially all data on the Internet be treated the same by Internet service providers (ISPs), with many supporters calling on the FCC to prohibit “Internet fast lanes.” But are there situations in which different treatment of broadband traffic is good? What role should the government play in ever-changing broadband markets?
It is a Presentation On Net Neutrality...
CONTENTS:-
*What is Net Neutrality?
*Why Net Neutrality is important?
*Net Neutrality in India
*History
*TRAI rules in favor of Net Neutrality
*Why should we care?
-Sourav Dey
Mail ID: piyush.kolkata@gmail.com | piyush.kolkata@outlook.com
Mail me for the PPT version.
MY LAST 25 YEARS INTERNET PAPERS MODELS - NEXT INTERNET MODELS FOR WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNET FOR GROWTH ONE WORLD ONE INTERNET ONE LOCAL ECONOMY AND INNOVATION
Will the Internet Be Bad for Democracy Eli M. NoamProfessor a.docxalanfhall8953
Will the Internet Be Bad for Democracy?
Eli M. Noam
Professor and Finance and Economics
Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
November 2001, Camden, Maine
“Digital Citizens appear startlingly close to the Jeffersonian ideal--they are informed, outspoken, participatory, passionate about freedom, proud of their culture, and committed to the free nation in which it has evolved…”
“…Politicians shouldn’t even dream of talking to [Digital Citizens] about the past – or the present for that matter.Digital Citizens don’t care about today; they want to know about tomorrow…”
(Wired Magazine 1997)
When the media history of the 20th Century will be written, the Internet will be seen asitsmajor contribution. Television, telephone, and computers will be viewed as its early precursors, merging and converging into the new medium just as radio and film did into TV. The Internet’s impact on culture, business, and politics will be vast, for sure. Where will it take us? To answer that question is difficult, because the Internet is not simply a set of interconnecting links and protocols connecting packet switchednetworks, but it is also a construct of imagination, an inkblot test into which everybody projects their desires, fears and fantasies.
Some see enlightenment and education. Others see pornography and gambling. Some see sharing and collaboration; others see e-commerce and profits. Controversies abound on most aspects of the Internet. Yet when it comes to its impact on democracy process, the answer seems unanimous.[1] The Internet is good for democracy. It creates digital citizens (Wired 1997) active in the vibrant teledemocracy (Etzioni, 1997) of the Electronic Republic (Grossman 1995) in the
[footnoteRef:1]Digital Nation (Katz 1992). Is there no other side to this question? Is the answer so positively positive? [1: [1]Exceptions are Bimber (1998) and Blau (1998)]
The reasons why the Internet is supposed to strengthen democracy include the following:
1.The Internet lowers the entry barriers to political participation.
2.It strengthens political dialogue.
3.It creates community.
4.It cannot be controlled by government.
5.It increases voting participation.
6.Itpermits closer communication with officials.
7.It spreads democracy world-wide.
Each of the propositions in this utopian populist, view, which might be called is questionable. But they are firmly held by the Internet founder generation, by the industry that now operates the medium, by academics from Negroponte (1995) to Dahl (1989), by gushy news media, and by a cross-party set of politicians who wish to claim the future, from Gore to Gingrich, from Bangemann to Blair.
I will argue, in contrast, that the Internet, far from helping democracy, is a threat to it. And I am taking this view as an enthusiast, not a critic. But precisely because the Internet is powerful and revolutionary, it also affects, and even destroys, all.
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Since the early nineties the use of the internet has increased substantially due to the increase of media such as video and mp3’s. The ability to share and receive these formats has become so easy due to websites like youtube, spotify, facebook and other social media companies. Thes sites cause a lot of traffic, or large internet activity, by using more bandwidth. ISP’s or Internet Service Providers like Verizon and AT&T sold the right use these activities so there content would only be available through them. Net neutrality is the principle that all content whether it be sites or services should treated equally without any bias based on user activity, content, brand, application or communication. This contentedly forced ISP’s to not make deals with companies to allow a better traffic speed for their content by charging at a higher rate.
After a vote by the FCC, Federal Communications Commission, to remove the Net Neutrality,an uproar of support towards a free internet exploded. These Rule restricted ISP’s from slowing down sites or charging access to higher priority companies. While this is not going to cause changes so soon. It presumably means companies will be able to not only charge you for the inter service you use but also the sites and services we use on a daily basis.
Big name companies should not have the right to be able to discriminate lesser used net services,due to the lack of usage or popularity. For some companies this topic is seen as a desirable way to improve quality because they are bigger companies with more money. This can be equally, if not more so, harmful to smaller companies just starting up. Many internet application companies like Google,Reddit,eBay,Amazon etc support net neutrality regulation.Google in 2008 stated, opposing market power of broadband providers to control access to their content and other applications. These Site favor an open Internet. Every site or company should have equal opportunity for customers to have access to content across the entire world wide web.
Many of these companies are starting to fight back, “Several tech companies including Etsy, Kickstarter, Foursquare and Shutterstock filed a petition on Monday afternoon challenging the Federal Communications Commission's rollback of net neutrality protections”. (Horrowitz,Tech Companies).
Any news, website or forum is accessible under net neutrality, given it has legality to exist. Theoretically ISP’s can charge you more or less to use these services. An open internet allows friendly and EQUAL competition, this ensures that a company has un-altered access to their content and level the playing field for larger companies to be treated the same as small start-ups.
Portugal, sadly, does not have net neutrality. Their services charge users by the month for using apps and websites. MEO, an ISP there, charge five euro every month to use individual types of content ...
The Digital Economy Act was rushed through parliament back in April ahead of the election with 10% of the normal debating time that a bill of that size should get. Why? So Lord Mandelson, our unelected then Business Secretary, could appease his friends in the recording industry by introducing draconian laws that could see internet connections cuts and websites blocked without trial, possibly signalling the end of free wi-fi. Learn more in this presentation from LBi, Europe's number one marketing and technology agency.
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MASS MEDIA AND
THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
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The Evolution of the
Internet
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The Internet Today:
From Media
Convergence
to Web 3.0
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Video Games
and Interactive
Environments
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The Economics and
Issues of the Internet
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The Internet and
Democracy
The Internet,
Digital Media,
and Media
Convergence
Starting a decade ago, the most famous mar-
keting campaign for mobile phones involved
a Verizon Wireless test technician wearing
horn-rimmed glasses saying “Can you hear me
now?” into his phone from various locations.
These days, the original purpose of a mobile
phone—a voice call—is no longer the main
attraction. Instead, the Blackberry, the iPhone,
and Google’s Android phones lead a growing list
of smartphones that feature options like mobile
broadband, Wi-Fi, texting, GPS navigators,
music players, touch screens, full keyboards,
cameras, and speech recognition. Mobile
phones today represent a “fourth screen” (after
movie screens, televisions, and computers) for
many users, allowing us to go online, watch vid-
eos, or take and send photos wherever we are.
We may be on the go, but now we aren’t discon-
nected from the mass media—we take it with us.
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THE INTERNET, DIGITAL MEDIA,
AND MEDIA CONVERGENCE
The change in the technology and
culture of mobile phones is evident
in current mobile phone marketing.
When HTC released its Droid Incred-
ible smartphone for Verizon in 2010,
voice calls were hardly even a feature
worth promoting. Indeed, the only times
Verizon mentioned voice was in connec-
tion to the voice-enabled keyboard (so
users can speak their text messages in-
stead of typing them) and voice search,
which uses voice recognition to search
Google. The more important features
in the marketing campaign were the
powerful processors, the touch screen,
social networking ease, synced e-mail
accounts, Google Maps, the 8 mega-
pixel camera, and thousands of apps
and widgets from the Android Market
(similar to the iPhone’s App Store).
One of the latest entries, Motorola’s
Bravo (for AT&T) is a smartphone whose
design and features focus on Web
browsing and social networking so much
that most reviews don’t even address
the phone’s call quality. Instead, the
Bravo’s marketing efforts show off its
full HTML browser with Adobe Flash
Lite 3 (for a content-rich surfing experi-
ence) and a large touch screen (making
it better for watching video). The phone
also features MOTOBLUR, a service
that syncs your Facebook, MySpace,
and Twitter updates into a single feed.
However, given the fierce competition
in the market, it can be difficult to know
which of the many new smartphones
will be popular with consumers and have
lasting power.
This shift i ...
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E D I T E D B Y D L A P I P E R
Sascha D. Meinrath and Victor
W. Pickard
T
he past few years have witnessed a once-obscure issue
known as “net neutrality” blow up into arguably
the most publicized policy debate in US telecom-
munications history. An untold story is how this
relatively technical debate spilled outside the rarefied
airs of Congressional Committees and the Federal
Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) eighth floor to
rage across the blogosphere, major newspapers, YouTube
clips, and episodes of The Daily Show to become, if not
a household phrase, a topic of popular debate involving
millions of Americans. One explanation is that, at its
root, the net neutrality debate is far more significant
than a squabble among technocrats. Rather, it is first
and foremost a normative debate, one that will deter-
mine the role of the Internet in a democratic society,
with profound implications for the daily welfare of mil-
lions of citizens who rely on the Internet as a critical
resource. Unfortunately, it is such normative concerns,
along with related political and historical contexts, that
have been least explored in much of the net neutrality
scholarship to date. This article aims to address these
gaps while expanding the parameters of the existing
debate.
“Network neutrality,” defined broadly, is non-
discriminatory interconnectedness among data commu-
nication networks that allows users to access the content
and to run the services, applications, and devices of their
choice. In essence, network neutrality forbids preferen-
tial treatment of specific content, services, applications,
and devices that can be integrated into the network
infrastructure. This principle has been the foundation
for rapid innovation and the Internet’s relative open-
ness. As Congress debates whether network neutrality
protections should be written into current legislation,
the battle lines have been drawn between large tele-
communications companies that own the pipes, on one
side, and Internet content companies and public interest
groups on the other. Although scholarship has begun to
catch up with the net neutrality debate, the majority
of this work has failed to connect this issue with larger
Sascha D. Meinrath is the Research Director for the New America
Foundation’s Wireless Future Program. Additionally, he coordinates
the Open Source Wireless Coalition, a global partnership of open
source wireless integrators, researchers, implementers, and companies
dedicated to the development of open source, interoperable, low-cost
wireless technologies. He can be reached at [email protected]
com and (202) 986-2700 x226. Victor W. Pickard recently finished his
PhD at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he works on telecommunications
policy as a Research Fellow for the New America Foundation.
Transcending Net Neutrality: Ten St.
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Leading Change strategies and insights for effective change management pdf 1.pdf
The Future of the Internet 2.0
1. Timothy Karr Campaign Director Free Press www.freepress.net The Future of the Internet
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12. How did this happen? What ever happened to the idea of the MASS media? Let’s review …
13. In the 1920s radio was a common technology, in the sense that an extraordinary range of people could gain access to a new and relatively cheap technology to air messages to one another. But once companies began to think that they could profit from advertising over our airwaves the FCC began to implement a very different idea about how radio would function. Working with special interests, government allocated the spectrum in a way that made it so only a few could get access to the airwaves. By the mid 1930s NBC and CBS were responsible for an astounding 97% of nighttime broadcasting. The number of radio station owners has plummeted by 34% since the 1996 Telecommunications Act. That year, the biggest radio owners controlled fewer than 65 stations. Today, Clear Channel— one company — owns more than 1,200. Radio?
14. Television suffered much the same fate. Using powerful lobbyists, television broadcasters gained overwhelming influence in Washington. The spent $222 million to lobby government officials from 1998 to 2004. including millions on entertainment and travel, taking FCC regulators on 2,500 all-expense-paid trips. Television broadcasting policy was shaped in closed-door meetings with policymakers. So, even though the public owned the airwaves, special interests decided how this influential media was created, financed, and distributed. There developed an interdependence between those who held political power (and needed access to the airwaves) and those who controlled the airwaves (and needed access to political power). Television?
15. What happened to the Mass Media… It's gotten so bad that today, instead of nurturing and extending democracy and free speech, broadcasting threatens to distort it. The media industry and their lobbyists worked hand in hand with policymakers to shape a system that cedes control of mass media to a few corporations. In all of these cases what we see a “disruptive technology” that sparks an explosion of democratic participation. But this explosion threatens the status quo. And those threatened react. Their reaction is to take a culture that has been unlocked by technological change and to re-lock it.
16. What happened to stifle openness and limit access to broadcasting is happening to the Internet right now. … could happen to the Internet A handful of phone and cable giants are promising to build a new network of Internet services. But they want something in return from government. They want control. Not just over the “pipes” but control over the Internet itself. They’re pushing laws that would gut Net Neutrality
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18. Google users —Another search engine could pay dominant Internet providers like AT&T to guarantee the competing search engine opens faster than Google on your computer. Ipod listeners —A company like Comcast could slow access to iTunes, steering you to a higher-priced music service that it owned. Political groups —Political organizing could be slowed by a handful of dominant Internet providers who ask advocacy groups to pay "protection money" for their Web sites and online features to work correctly. Online purchasers —Companies could pay Internet providers to guarantee their online sales process faster than competitors with lower prices—distorting your choice as a consumer. Small businesses —When Internet companies like AT&T discriminate in favor their own services and allies, new market entrants won’t be able to compete. Bloggers —Costs will skyrocket to post and share video and audio clips—silencing citizen journalists and putting more power in the hands of a few corporate-owned media outlets. How would this affect you
19. To kill Net Neutrality, phone and cable companies are changing the laws. In the past 10 years, they have spent more than half a billion dollars on campaign contributions, political action committees, PR firms and high-spending lobbyists to push through their rules. On Net Neutrality alone, AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth and Comcast have spent more than $150 million to strong arm Congress and the FCC. Changing the law But they didn't anticipate one thing....
20. In 2006, a grassroots coalition of more than 850 groups including educators, not-for-profits, consumer rights groups, small business and public advocates — banded together to protect Internet freedom. We were joined by more than 1.5 million people who signed a petition urging Congress to maintain the free and open Internet. More than 6,000 bloggers linked to the coalition's site, SavetheInternet.com, many of them posting homemade videos to counteract the phone companies’ misinformation campaign. Online social networks formed around the issue at MySpace, FaceBook and YouTube. We Used the Internet to Save the Internet. The public
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23. This grassroots campaign lifted this arcane issue from obscurity and threw a wrench in phone and cable Companies’ plan to overhaul our media laws behind closed doors. Whereas before, the phone companies were confident that Congress would simply sign-off on industry-written legislation, today no member of Congress can vote with the telecom cartel without feeling the full heat of public scrutiny. And we won We made opposing Net Neutrality a political third rail.