TY - BOOK AU - Kimball,Danny TI - Net neutrality and the struggle for the open internet SN - 0472902458 AV - HE7645 U1 - 384 23/eng/20220506 PY - 2022/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Network neutrality KW - Social aspects KW - Internet and activism KW - Internet KW - Access control KW - Internet service providers KW - Political activists KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies KW - bisacsh KW - LAW / Computer & Internet KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine 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 N2 - ""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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3544899 ER -