Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet

Abstract

“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 Battle 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 Battle for the Open Internet offers a humanities-based critical theoretical approach, 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.

Development and validation of a performance task for diagnosing democratic communication skills in adolescents

“…민주적 의사소통의 의미에 대해서 완벽하게 합의된 정의는 찾기 어려울지라도 중첩되는 주요 특성 은 확인할 수 있다. 이 중 하나는, 현 공적 담론에 공평하게 접근하고 참여할 수 있어야 한다는 점이다 (Kimball, 2022). 이는 자유와 평등을 강조하는 '민주적'의 의미와 공론장에서의 '의사소통'의 의미를 명확하게 반영한 것이라고 할 수 있다.…”