TY - BOOK ID - 61130660 TI - The paradoxes of network neutralities PY - 2019 SN - 9780262043007 9780262355070 0262355078 0262355086 0262043009 PB - Cambridge : MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Human rights KW - Industrial and intellectual property KW - Mass communications KW - Computer architecture. Operating systems KW - United States KW - Network neutrality KW - Telecommunication policy KW - Competition KW - Government policy KW - Internet neutrality KW - Net neutrality KW - Internet governance KW - Network neutrality - United States KW - Telecommunication policy - United States KW - Competition - Government policy - United States KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61130660 AB - "Media reform activists rejoiced in 2015 when the FCC codified network neutrality, approving a set of Open Internet rules that prohibitedproviders from favoring some content and applications over others?only to have their hopes dashed two years later when the agency reversed itself. In this book, Russell Newman offers a unique perspective on these events, arguing that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment rather than counter to it; perversely, it served to solidify the continued existence of a commercially dominant internet and even emergent modes of surveillance and platform capitalism. Going beyond the usual policy narrative of open versus closed networks, or public interest versus corporate power, Newman uses network neutrality as a lens through which to examine the ways that neoliberalism renews and reconstitutes itself, the limits of particular forms of activism, and the shaping of future regulatory processes and policies. Newman explores the debate's roots in the 1990s movement for open access, the transition to network neutrality battles in the 2000s, and the terms in which these battles were fought. By 2017, the debate had become unmoored from its own origins, and an emerging struggle against “neoliberal sincerity” points to a need to rethink activism surrounding media policy reform itself." -- ER -