It's Time: Reimaging Universal Service for Digital Life

This article provides a brief introduction to a timely set of papers critically discussing universal service in telecommunications and proposing policy option. This is a longstanding public policy issue, moving once more into the foreground in Australia. The article puts the papers into context, and argues for the need to reconnect universal service policy with fertile and productive research, policy, social and technology innovation in other areas. Finally, the paper argues for the urgent need to fundamentally reimagine universal service to achieve the still relevant goal of access for all to essential communications technology.

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“Involuntary self‐employment” as a public policy issue: a cross‐country European review

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research ◽

10.1108/13552551011027002 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 112-129 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Teemu Kautonen ◽

Simon Down ◽

Friederike Welter ◽

Pekka Vainio ◽

Jenni Palmroos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Self Employment ◽

Cross Country ◽

European Review

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Exploiting Existing Opinion

Predicting the Presidency ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691170374.003.0006 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

George C. Edwards

Keyword(s):

Research Policy ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Abraham Lincoln ◽

Bill Clinton ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Strategic Defense Initiative ◽

White House ◽

The Public ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Strategic Defense

This chapter examines how the president exploits existing opinion on policies by showing the public how its views are compatible with his policies or by increasing the salience of White House initiatives that are popular with the public. Using Abraham Lincoln as an example, the chapter explains how the president can exploit the congruence of the public’s views with those of the White House by articulating opinion in a way that clarifies its policy implications and shows the public that its wishes are consistent with his policies. It also considers how framing and priming allows the president to define what a public policy issue is about, citing the experiences of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and media resistance to the White House’s framing of issues. Finally, it shows how the president can influence fluid public opinion by analyzing Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and George W. Bush’s stem cell research policy.

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The Case of “Illicit Appropriation” in the Use of Technology

Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-094-5.ch012 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 210-229

Author(s):

Eduardo H. Calvillo Gámez ◽

Rodrigo Nieto-Gómez

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Human Computer Interaction ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Final Conclusion ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Use Of Technology ◽

Current Events ◽

Technological Means ◽

The Individual ◽

Computer Interaction

In this chapter, the authors play the devil‘s advocate to those who favor strict government supervision over technology itself. The authors’ argument is that technology is a “neutral” mean to an end, and that the use of technology to detract social deviations is dependent on public policy and social behavior. To elaborate their argument they propose the concept of “illicit appropriation”, based on the Human Computer Interaction concept of appropriation. The authors argue that sometimes appropriation can be geared towards activities that can be considered as illicit, and in some cases criminal. They illustrate the use of illicit appropriation through a series of case studies of current events, in which they show that either a state or the individual can rely on illicit appropriation. The authors’ final conclusion is that the use of technology to combat social deviations is not a technological problem, but a public policy issue, where a delicate balance has to be found between the enforcement of the law by technological means (approved by legislation), the user experience, the civil liberties of the individual and the checks and balances to the power of the state. This chapter is written from the expertise of the authors on Human Computer Interaction and Security Studies.

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The Role of Cognitive Responses as Mediators of Alcohol Warning Label Effects

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing ◽

10.1177/074391569501200106 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 57-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

J. Craig Andrews ◽

Richard G. Netemeyer ◽

Srinivas Durvasula

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Future Research ◽

Cognitive Responses ◽

Warning Label ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

The Relationship

The authors examine an important public policy issue, namely, the effectiveness of federally mandated and proposed alcohol warning labels. Specifically, warning label cognitive responses are tested as mediators of effects of five different alcohol warning label types on label attitudes. On the basis of requirements for ANOVA-based mediation, net support arguments mediated 76% of the warning label treatment effect on label attitudes. Following requirements for regression-based mediation, net support arguments mediated the relationship from attitude toward drinking to label attitudes. Public policy implications and future research directions are provided.

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Matter Unmoored: Trash, Archaeological Consciousness and American Culture and Fiction in the 1980s

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875816000578 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 553-571 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

TIM JELFS

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Cultural Significance ◽

Mass Consumption ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

The Relationship ◽

Late Twentieth Century ◽

Epistemological Complexity

This article considers the cultural significance of the garbage panics of the 1980s, including the voyage of the infamous Mobro 4000 “garbage barge.” The article argues that the trash at the centre of these panics is important to our understanding of both the 1980s and the present because it demanded – and still demands – that Americans see and understand it as a class of matter unmoored from temporal as well as spatial boundaries. The alarming durability of the supposedly ephemeral refuse of a culture of mass consumption invoked an “archaeological consciousness” prone to muse upon the longevity of material remains. This consciousness was expressed in various cultural and discursive arenas throughout the 1980s, revealing that durable detritus was not just a pressing public policy issue but a marker of cultural anxieties emerging out of the operations of archaeological consciousness. From concerns about contingency of the mass-consuming culture of the late twentieth-century United States to reflections on trash's own epistemological complexity, trash spoke in unexpected ways throughout the 1980s, raising important questions about the relationship between producers of culture and their audience, whose receptiveness to the urgencies of archaeological consciousness suffers from a frustrating transience as far as trash is concerned.

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