Announcements

New Book: ARNIC co-founder Jonathan Aronson's new book (with Peter Cowhey of UCSD and now the Senior Counselor at USTR and a contribution by former official Don Abelson) has been published by MIT Press. The book, Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation is available for free download under a Creative Commons license at :  http://www.globalinfoandtelecom.org.  The authors would welcome your comments, criticisms, and corrections.

Recent Book, Edited by Hernan Galperin and Judith Mariscal,Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, Practical Action Publishing/IDRC 2007

Recent Book, by Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez - Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey: Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspertive, (MIT Press, 2006) [more info from MIT Press] Now available in Spanish

Recent Book, edited by Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso: The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Washington DC: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006); also available in Portuguese as A sociedade em Rede: Do Conhecimento à Acção Política, Imprensa Nacional, Casa da Moeda, Lisboa , 2006. Includes chapters by Jonathan Taplin, Jeffrey Cole, Hernán Galperin and François Bar. (free download in both languages)

Recent Book, edited by Hernán Galperin and Judith Mariscal: Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
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Research Notes:
Tsunami Field Notes – Phi Phi Island, Thailand
Seungyoon Lee, 23rd July – 28th July, 2005
Mobile Phones for Disaster Preparedness
Arul Chib & Seungyoon Lee, September 2005

Reviews
William Davies, of the Institute for Policy Research, reviews Hernán Galperin's New Television, Old Politics in New Media & Society 7(2)

Annenberg Research Seminar on International Communication
Nick Economides : Net Neutrality on the Internet

Nick Economides
Executive Director
NET (Network, E-Commerce, and Telecommunications) Institute
Thursday Nov.8th, 2007, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Room ASC207 (Annenberg School for Communication, USC)

Slides from the presentation:

slides are © Nick Economides - all rights reserved by the author

Video from presentation:

(this video is licenced under a creative commons / attribution license. MPEG4 and WMV versions can be downloaded from the internet archive)

Abstract:

Economides proposes a two-sided model to analyze the network neutrality debate. On one side, Internet platforms provide Internet access to residential and business consumers. On the other side, Internet platforms provide distribution services for content and application providers. Within this context, network neutrality regulation would bar platforms from charging differential fees to content and application providers in exchange for different kinds of distribution services. When the access market is monopoly or duopoly, Economides finds that net neutrality regulation generally increases total industry surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the platform(s) impose(s) fees on content and application providers.” Economides will also discuss the economic implications of various price discrimination strategies that may be pursued by the access platform(s) in the absence of net neutrality.

Working paper:
“Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis,” (with Joacim Tag), NET Institute Working Paper #07-14 (September 2007)