[CITASA] Seeking more balanced attention to 'internet' policies as well as use

[Prof. Becky Lentz]

Dear Colleagues,

As an addendum to (and agreement with) the positive portrayals of networked
life (see recent posts re Twitter and Networked Life) focused on the power
of the Internet paired with social networking technologies, I think it's
equally important to be keep a focus on debates about the policies that make
this infrastructure available, affordable, accessible, and democratic.
Perhaps not all necessarily "traditional" sociology topics, but important to
keeping another dimension of the conversation ever-present, especially from
a sociological perspective. By this I mean the conversation about policies
governing the Internet and communication infrastructure need not be driven
primarily from political science:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-cooper/the-future-of-journalism_b_186675.
html?view=print
http://gfem.org/node/496
http://opennet.net/
http://www.pff.org/events/upcomingevents/042409-ICANN-internet-governance.as
p
http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/
http://www.neutrality.ca/

-- 
Becky Lentz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
McGill University
853 Sherbrook Street West, Arts Building, W-265
Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2T6
514.398.4995 (phone) 514.398.7247 (fax)
email: becky.lentz at mcgill.ca
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