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
[download PDF]

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)

Publications:Books, Working Papers and articles; Research Notes

Books and Monographs

Galperin, Hernán, and Judith Mariscal (2006): Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives (REDIS-DIRSI, Lima, Peru)
[content licensed under creative commons, available on-line in English at http://www.dirsi.net/espanol/files/DIRSI_BOOK-ENG.pdf]

Castells, Manuel, and Gustavo Cardoso, eds (2006) The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy ( Washington DC: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006); Includes chapters by Jonathan Taplin, Jeffrey Cole, Hernán Galperin and François Bar. This book is also available in Portuguese as A sociedade em Rede: Do Conhecimento à Acção Política, Imprensa Nacional, Casa da Moeda, Lisboa.
[Licensed under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Licence: English (PDF) - Português (PDF)]

Castells, Manuel, Mireia Fernandez - Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey (2006) Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective, MIT Press.
Translated in Spanish by Ariel ( Barcelona)

Under the direction of Manuel Castells, final report of the Project Internet Catalonia's research report on e-Administration. [available at http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng]

“Village Computing: A State of the Field. Reflections on the Village Computing Consultation”, Grameen Foundation, November 2006 (ARNIC partnered with the Center for Internet Studies, telecenter.org, and the Grameen Foundation to organize this consultation.) Available at http://www.villagecomputing.org/

 

Working Papers, Book chapters and articles
2007

Aronson, Jonathan, “Protecting International Intellectual Property Rights,” a chapter in a volume in honor of Robert Keohane edited by Helen Milner and Andrew Moravcsik. Princeton University Press, forthcoming, 2008. [PDF]

Aronson, Jonathan with Peter Cowhey and John Richards, “The Peculiar Evolution of 3G Wireless Networks: Institutional Logic, Politics, and Property Rights,” in SSRC book, Ernest Wilson and William Drake, eds. Governing Global Electronic Networks (forthcoming, MIT Press, 2008). [draft PDF]

Aronson, Jonathan, and Peter Cowhey, “Trade in Services and International Trade Agreements: Telecommunications,” in Aaditya Mattoo, Robert M. Stern, and Gianni Zanini (eds.), Services in the International Economy:  A Handbook.  ( Washington, D.C. and New York:  A co-publication of The World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming late 2007). [PDF]

Bar, François, and Christian Sandvig (2007), “ US Communication Policy after Convergence”, Media Culture and Society, (forthcoming, Oct07)

Bar, François, Francis Pisani and Matthew Weber (2007), “Mobile Technology Appropriation in a Distant mirror: Baroque Infiltration, Creolization and Cannibalism”, paper presented at the Seminario sobre Desarrollo Económico, Desarrollo Social y Comunicaciones Móviles en América Latina, Buenos Aires, April 20th. [PDF]

Bar, François, and Jonathan Taplin (2007), “Cable’s Digital Future,” in Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris and Anthony Frietas, editors, Cable Visions: Beyond a Broadcast Model, New Youk: New York University Press, pp. 66-84 [pre-publication PDF]

Barrantes, R., Agüero, A., Galperin, H., & Molinari, A. (2007). Affordability of Mobile Telephony Services in Latin America [PDF]

Castells, M. “Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society.” International Journal of Communication. Vol. 1. 2007. pp 238-266. [access to PDF]

Castells, M. with Amelia Arsenault, “Switching Power: Rupert Murdoch and The Global Business Of Media Politics.” International Sociology. (forthcoming)

Galperin, H. (2007). ¿Qué modelo de economía del conocimiento para América Latina?. In DigiWorld América Latina 2007. Madrid: Ariel, pp. 116-118.
Available at http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/forum/Digiworld/

Chung, Jae Eun, and Jade Miller, Open Source Software Policy and The MNC: The Case of Brazil, paper presented at the IAMCR 50 th Anniversary Conference, Paris, July 23-25, 2007 [PDF]

Lee, Seungyoon, Peter Monge, François Bar, and Sorin Matei (2007), “The Emergence of Clusters in the Global Telecommunications Network,” Journal of Communication, 57 (3), 415-434.

Lee, S., & Chib, A. (2007, in press). "Wireless for the poor: No strings Attached? A framework for wireless initiatives connecting rural areas." In N. Carpentier & B. De Cleen (Eds.), Participation and media production. Critical reflections on content creation. ICA 2007 Conference Theme Book. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Lee, S. (2007, May). Social networks and ICT for development: Preliminary findings from Brazilian rural communities. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Francisco, CA.

Taplin, Jonathan, “Crouching Tigers; Emerging Challenges to U.S. Entertainment Supremacy” in Observatorio ( Lisbon: Obercom, Sept. 2007) [available at http://obs.obercom.pt]

Taplin, Jonathan, “The Interregnum; America in the Post Neoconservative Era”, in Nexus Journal ( Amsterdam: Nexus Institute, May 2007) [PDF]

Wallis, Cara (2007), "Techno-Mobility and Translocal Migration: Mobile Phone Use among Female Migrant Workers in Beijing", presented at the conference, “ Female Labor Migration in Globalizing Asia: Translocal/Transnational Identities and Agencies”, September 13-14, 2007, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. [PDF]

2006

Aronson, Jonathan, Peter Cowhey, and John Richards (2006) “Property Rights and 3G Wireless Standards” in John Zysman, ed. How Revolutionary Was the Revolution? (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006).

Bar, François, and Hernan Galperin, (2006) “Wireless Communication and Development: Micro and Macro Linkages”, Information Technologies and International Development, 3:2, pp. 1-2 [access to PDF]- Introduction to the Winter 2006 ITID special issue on Wireless Communication and Development, edited by Bar and Galperin. [ITID special issue 3:2]

Galperin, Hernan, and François Bar, "The Microtelco Opportunity: Evidence from Latin America", Information Technologies and International Development 3:2, 2006, [access to PDF]

Galperin, H. (2006). Digital Broadcasting in Latin America. In M. Cave & K.Nakamura (eds.), Digital Broadcasting: Policy and practice in the Americas, Europe and Japan. London: Edward Elgar, pp. 39-53

Hernan Galperin, Raul Roman, and Paola Ruchman, with Roxana Barrantes, Anahi Durand, Juan Jose Miranda, and Patricia Zarate (2006), “USAID Last Mile Initiative in Peru: Baseline Research Assessment in Jauja” [PDF]

Bar, François and Hernan Galperin , “ Geeks, Cowboys and Bureaucrats: Deploying Broadband, the Wireless Way ” The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC), Issue 6, 2006. (also published in Portuguese as , “Geeks, Burocratas e Cowboys: criando uma infra-estrutura Internet, de modo Wireless” in Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso, eds. A sociedade em Rede: Do Conhecimento à Acção Política, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, Lisbon , 2006 (pp. 291-304.)[PDF] )

Bar, François and Namkee Park, "Municipal Wi-Fi: The Goals, Practices, and Policy Implications of the U.S. Case", Communications & Strategies, no. 61, 1st quarter 2006, p.107-125. [PDF]

Bar, François, with Caroline Simard, "From Hierarchies to Network Firms", in The Handbook of New Media: Updated Student Edition, Lievrouw, Leah, and Sonia Livingstone eds., Sage 2006 (pp. 350-363.) [chapter proofs PDF]

Latzer, Michael, Natascha Just, Florian Saurwein, and Peter Slominski, "Institutional Variety in Communications Regulation: Classification Scheme and Empirical Evidence from Austria," Telecommunications Policy 30 (2006) 152-170 [PDF]

2005


Aronson, Jonathan, Power and Interdependence: International Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World paper presented at the Keohane Festschrift, Princeton University, February 11, 2005 [PDF]

Bar, François & Namkee Park, "Municipal Wi-Fi Networks: The Goals, Practices, and Policy Implications of the US Case," Paper prepared for the First Transatlantic Telecom Industry Forum, IDATE, Montpellier, November 22, 2005. [PDF - 154K]

Bar, François & Hernan Galperin, "Geeks, Cowboys and Bureaucrats: Deploying Broadband, the Wireless Way", paper presented at A Sociedade em Rede e a Economia do Conhecimento: Portugal numa Perspectiva Global, Lisbon, Portugal, March 5-6, 2005. [PDF - 161K]

Cole, Jonathan, "Internet and Society in a Global Perspective: Lessons from Five Years in the Field", paper presented at A Sociedade em Rede e a Economia do Conhecimento: Portugal numa Perspectiva Global, Lisbon, Portugal, March 5-6, 2005 [PDF - 322K]

Galperin, Hernan (2005). Wireless Networks and Rural Development:
Opportunities for Latin America. Information Technologies and
International Development 2(3): 47-56. [PDF - 163K]

Lee, S. (2005). Telecommunications, spatial infrastructure, and spatial interaction: Looking through the case of Seoul. Global Media Journal, 4(7), Article No. 12.

Taplin, Jonathan, "The IPTV Revolution", paper presented at A Sociedade em Rede e a Economia do Conhecimento: Portugal numa Perspectiva Global, Lisbon, Portugal, March 5-6, 2005 [PDF - 730K]

2004


Aronson, Jonathan, and Peter Cowhey, "Wireless Standards and Applications: Industrial Strategies and Government Policies", paper prepared for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, USC, October 8-9, 2004. [PDF-752K]

Aronson, Jonathan D., "Causes and consequences of the communications and Internet revolution", in John Baylis & Steve Smith (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics 3d edition (Oxford University Press, 2005). [PDF-15Mb]

Bar, François & Hernan Galperin, "Building the Wireless Internet Infrastructure: From Cordless Ethernet Archipelagos to Wireless Grids," Communication & Strategies, Volume 54 - 2nd quarter 2004, (pp. 45-54)
[PDF]

Bar, François, and Hernan Galperin, "Building Wireless Infrastructure: Alternative Models", paper prepared for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, USC, October 8-9, 2004. [PDF-271K]

Cave, Martin, “Spectrum licensing and spectrum commons – where to draw the line”, paper prepared for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, USC, October 8-9, 2004. [PDF-320K]

Castells, Manuel, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Qiu and Araba Sey,"Social Uses of Wireless Communications: The Mobile Information Society", paper prepared for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, USC, October 8-9, 2004. [PDF-2M]

Galperin, Hernan, Políticas TICs y Pobreza: El Caso Argentino (ICT Policies and Poverty: The Case of Argentina), Prepared for the Pro-Poor, Pro-Market ICT Policy and Regulation Meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 11-12, 2004. [PDF-90K]

Galperin, Hernan, Wireless Networks and Rural Development: Opportunities for Latin America, prepared for the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 7-9, 2004. [PDF - 110K]

Qiu, Jack Linchuan, "NTT DoCoMo: Review of a Case", Japan Media Review, Oct. 15, 2004 [http://ojr.org/japan/research/1097446811.php]

Taplin, Jonathan, "IP3: Intellectual Property, Information Policy and The Devolutionary Power of Internet Protocol", paper prepared for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, USC, October 8-9, 2004. [PDF - 302k]

2003


Cowhey, Peter, Jonathan Aronson, and John Richards, The Peculiar Evolution of 3G Wireless Networks: Institutional Logic, Politics, and Property Rights, August 2003 (To be published in the SSRC sponsored volume: Ernest Wilson and William Drake, eds. Governing Global Electronic Networks, Cambridge: MIT Press) [PDF - 425K]

Qiu, Jack Linchuan , The Internet in China: Data and Issues, Oct 2003
[PDF - 89K]

Raja, Siddhartha and Francois Bar, Transition Paths in a Spectrum Commons Regime, paper presented at TPRC 2003, September 2003
[PDF - 198K]

2002

Aronson, Jonathan (2002) “Global Communications and their Impact,” in James N. Rosenau and J. P. Singh (eds) Global Communications and International Relations ( New York: SUNY Buffalo Press) 39-62.

Galperin, Hernan and Francois Bar, The Regulation of Interactive Television in the United States and the European Union, Federal Communications Law Journal, (Vol. 55 No 1, 2002), [PDF - 183K]

Sandvig, Christian, and Francois Bar, Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: Understanding Chaotic Communication Infrastructure, NSF proposal excerpt, 2002 [PDF - 431K]

 
Research Notes