The Net Neutrality Debate in the United States

Hart, Jeffrey A.

doi:10.1080/19331681.2011.577650

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“…The quest to reregulate global markets in telecommunications will be enacted in a global forum, with major states as big players, but also with citizen influence. More recent battles over data privacy (Newman, ), cybersecurity (Vaishnav, Choucri, & Clark, ), and net neutrality (Hart, ; Marsden, ) indicate that the role of government in telecommunications has only begun to be examined and understood.…”

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Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications

Rodine-Hardy

2015

Review of Policy Research

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Since the 1990s over 158 countries established pro-market reforms in telecommunications-a fast pace for such a drastic change. For example, Sweden and Botswana, two nations vastly different across multiple dimensions, both liberalized their telecom sectors. Why did so many countries adopt liberal reforms in such a short period of time? Conventional wisdom highlights the role of global markets and technology, powerful states, global diffusion, and domestic politics. I argue that contrary to these claims, diffusion through key international organizations is the critical and overlooked factor in explaining rapid global convergence of pro-market telecom reforms. Using an original dataset for 189 countries between 1970 and 2003 and event history analysis, I demonstrate that membership in key liberal trading organizations, especially the WTO and the OECD, increases the likelihood that countries will adopt liberal pro-market reforms in telecommunications. These results speak directly to current public policy debates about the reregulation of global markets and bridges the literatures of policy diffusion, institutional design, and regulatory regimes.

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Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications

Rodine-Hardy

2015

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“…Even so, Hart situates the birth of the network neutrality debate as much more recent, noting a letter sent in 2002 to the FCC in the network neutrality debate called the Coalition of Broadband Users and Innovators (CBUI) . In the letter, according to Hart, the phrase “network neutrality” appeared: a phrase the CBUI apparently picked up from the work of law professor Tim Wu mentioned earlier (Hart, , p. 420).…”

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“…In the United States, the network neutrality debate gained momentum after 2002 (Frieden, ; Hart, ; Sandvig, ; Wu & Yoo, n.d ) as policy‐makers considered further deregulating broadband services offered by cable providers, ostensibly to spur economic growth, competition, and innovation.…”

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“…In the United States, the network neutrality debate gained momentum after 2002 (Frieden, 2008;Hart, 2011;Sandvig, 2006;Wu & Yoo, n.d.;Yoo, 2004) as policy-makers considered further deregulating broadband services offered by cable providers, ostensibly to spur economic growth, competition, and innovation. Broadband services provided by regulated common carriers had been defined for some time as ''telecommunications'' services.…”

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Excavating Historicity in the U.S. Network Neutrality Debate: An Interpretive Perspective on Policy Change

Lentz

2013

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This article offers a framework for studying the historicity of the contemporary debate about network neutrality in the United States by drawing on the theory of intertextuality. Contrary to the popular notion that the idea of “neutrality” first appeared in 2002, the article traces the term back to the 1960s when the Federal Communications Commission took up the problem of convergence or “compunications” in the Computer Inquiry proceedings. The article closes with some reflections about how an intertextual perspective informs study of policy as a constitutive discursive practice.

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“…The assumption of communication advocacy and activism as a unified front is widespread among scholars and journalists. This assumption is embodied in terms such as “public interest community” (Shade, , p. 153), “consumer/civil liberties groups” (Hart, , p. 427), and “the public interest side” (Lentz, , p. xii). It usually translates into normative expectations when the successes and failures of communication advocacy and activism are evaluated and when recommendations are provided to improve the achievements of that movement, such as addressing sources of tension and the lack of collaboration.…”

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Dissent and Political Participation: The Many Faces of Communication Policy Advocacy and Activism

Löblich

2015

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This article deals with dissent among political civil society organizations in communication policy. The research question is why these organizations ended up being on different sides of the debate on rules regarding net neutrality in the United States. Rationales, goals, routines, and resources are examined based on Anthony Giddens's theory of structuration. This study focuses on the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet proceeding, and draws on interviews with 13 organizations and document analyses. A group portrait, a typology, and influencing factors provide information as to why different priorities were attributed to net neutrality and why this concept did not become a unifying theme among civil advocacy and activist organizations.

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The Net Neutrality Debate in the United States

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications

Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications

Excavating Historicity in the U.S. Network Neutrality Debate: An Interpretive Perspective on Policy Change

Dissent and Political Participation: The Many Faces of Communication Policy Advocacy and Activism

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