Moving towards unsustainability: a study of the Chinese telecommunications regulation

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Li
Keyword(s):  
Telecommunications Regulation

Civic Cultures and Skills in European Digital Rights Campaigning

2014 ◽  
pp. 273-295
Author(s):  
Yana Breindl
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Telecommunications Regulation ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Copyright Enforcement ◽  
Gain Access ◽  
Law Making

Technical skills are increasingly necessary to successfully intervene in policy-making, especially when dealing with technical matters such as Internet or telecommunications regulation. Skills are rooted in experience and cultural practices. Dahlgren's concept of civic cultures is used in this chapter to investigate the cultural underpinnings of the emergent European digital rights movement that has repeatedly targeted EU legislation on copyright enforcement, software patents, and the Internet. The values and identity of the movement are investigated along with the way knowledge and information are processed and trust established through repeated practices in a variety of online and offline spaces. The analysis illustrates how digitally skilled actors can substantially affect policy-making by disrupting the course of parliamentary law-making at the European level. However, technical skills need to be complemented by social and political competencies to gain access and provide convincing input to political institutions that increasingly rely on extra-institutional expertise.

scholarly journals Viewpoint: Telecommunications and Internet Broadband Policy: Sorting Out the Pieces for Telerehabilitation

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate D. Seelman
Keyword(s):  
Federal Communications Commission ◽  
Personal Health Records ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Legal Authority ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Telecommunications Act Of 1996 ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
Telecommunication Services ◽  
Telecommunications Regulation ◽  
Broadband Policy

Technological change is accelerating and with it regulatory upheaval.  Most of us agree that providing universal telecommunication services to all our citizens is a worthy ideal.  Nonetheless, many of us do not agree that regulation should be the means to make broadband Internet services widely available. This Viewpoint begins sorting out pieces of the emerging United States, regulatory and policy puzzle for broadband Internet with an eye to the interests of telerehabilitation providers and consumers. Just how might changes in legal authority, regulation and agency jurisdictions impact us?Key words: telecommunications regulation, telerehabilitation, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Telecommunications Act of 1996, National Broadband Plan; Comcast vs. FCC; electronic health records (EHR); personal health records (PHR); health information technology (HIT), 

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