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Why Verizon v. FCC Matters for Net Neutrality— and Why It Doesn’t
The battle over net neutrality (the vital principle that internet access providers should not interfere with what users do online) is heating back up. The FCC’s 2010 Open Internet rules ostensibly...
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Rethinking Media Distribution
The news that the subscription service Netflix now has more total subscribers than premium cable channel HBO further confirms that media industries are changing rapidly, especially when it comes to...
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Net Neutrality is Over— Unless You Want It
On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals tore out the heart of net neutrality. In the landmark Verizon v. FCC decision, the court struck down the FCC’s Open Internet rules— the hard-fought...
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Only Marginally More Unreal: Reconsidering CNN’s Coverage of Malaysia...
Although the disappearance of the March 8 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing was extraordinary, the initial coverage of it was not. All the major news outlets began with lavish reporting, becoming...
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Popular Culture and Politics: The Hunger Games 3-Finger Salute in Thai Protests
On June 2, 2014, news about protesters in Thailand holding up the Hunger Games 3-finger salute began proliferating across news networks and websites like The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The...
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Downloading Serial (part 1)
I should preface this column by saying that I felt particularly hailed by Serial, the new hit podcast from the producers of This American Life. I have been an avid listener of TAL for more than a...
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“Hope” for Net Neutrality?
On Monday, one more voice was added to the millions that have already urged the FCC to protect net neutrality (the standard that all users and uses of the internet should receive equal treatment from...
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Interstellar: It’s About Hope, Not Just Science!
[Significant plot spoilers for the film Interstellar below.] Director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar opens with a poignant pan across a bookshelf, showing heavy dust falling atop a toy NASA...
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What to Make of the Historic Net Neutrality Win
The FCC has done what even a few months ago seemed to most totally unthinkable: they delivered real net neutrality policy, putting in place strong regulations to protect fairness in internet access....
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Ashley Madison, Rentboy, and Dirty, Dirty Internet Sex
Post by Hollis Griffin, Denison University Two recent events in the world of sex-related Internet services underline ongoing problems that Americans have with intimacy and digital technology. A recent...
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