TY - BOOK ID - 137137496 TI - After Net Neutrality : A New Deal for the Digital Age AU - Pickard, Victor AU - Berman, David Elliot PY - 2019 SN - 0300249101 PB - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Telecommunication policy KW - History KW - United States. KW - USA UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137137496 AB - A provocative analysis of net neutrality and a call to democratize online communication   This short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a more equitable framework for regulating access to the internet. Pickard and Berman argue that we should not see internet service as a commodity but as a public good necessary for sustaining democratic society in the twenty-first century. They aim to reframe the threat to net neutrality as more than a conflict between digital leviathans like Google and internet service providers like Comcast but as part of a much wider project to commercialize the public sphere and undermine the free speech essential for democracy. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the key concepts underpinning the net neutrality battle and rallying points for future action to democratize online communication. ER -