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Information Policy |
Prof. Yale Braunstein |
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IS 221 |
Spring 2008 |
OUTLINE & REFERENCE LIST
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This course outline has been revised
and re-organized from past years--hence the new color scheme. Although there are
several new readings (and even new topics), I still include a number of
"classics" for many of the topics as I believe they are useful to
show the development of specific issues and how we think about them. There are
often unavoidable overlaps across the sections. Also, the course continues to
have more of a North American focus than one might find in a similar course
taught elsewhere in the world. Specific topics will depend, to some
extent, on the interests of the class. This reference list is designed to be
both a preliminary course outline and a useful starting point for research in
several policy- related areas. Color coding:
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1. Background on
Information Policy--Domestic
S.
Braman, "Defining information: An approach for
policy makers," Telecommunications Policy, Sept. 1989, pp. 233-42.
C.
Shapiro & H. Varian, "
L.
R. Schiff, Informed Consent: Information Production and Ideology (
Yochai Benkler, "Intellectual Property and the Organization
of Information Production." Available at: http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/irlaec/v22y2002i1p81-107.html
Older references that may provide additional insights:
Paul
Starr, The Creation of the Media: Political
Origins of Modern Communications (Basic Books:
I. Rowlands & S. Vogel, Information Policies: A
Sourcebook (London: Taylor Graham, 1991).
M. R. Rubin, Information
Economics and Policy in the
V.
J. Yurow, et al., Issues in Information Policy,
S. Nora & A. Minc, L'informatisation de la Societe
(La Documentation Francaise, 1978); translated as The
Computerization of Society (MIT Press, 1980). [The introduction by Daniel Bell is particularly
interesting.]
Cheryl
Buchwald, "
2. Background on
Information Policy--International
Ithiel de Sola Pool,
"A Shadow Darkens," Chapter 1 in Technologies of Freedom,
(Belknap/Harvard Univ. Press, 1983).
The Bangemann Report.
G.
Mastrini and D. de Charras,
"Twenty Years Mean Nothing: From NWICO to WSIS" Global Media and
Communication (Dec 2005; Vol. 1, pp. 273 - 288). Available at: http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/3/273.pdf
K.
W. Grewlich, "The Power of Global Communication:
Data Highways and Multimedia-Competition and Cooperation," in (M. Jussawalla).
N.
D. Karunaratne, "Policy Challenges in the
Emergent Borderless World," in (M. Jussawalla).
M.
Kirby, "The Human Genome Project-Promise or Problems?" in (M. Jussawalla).
[Aspen
Institute] Bits Across Borders: Policy Choices for
International Multimedia and Digital Services (1996).
G.
Shultz, "The Shape, Scope, and Consequences of the Age of
Information." Current Policy No. 811, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Dept.
of State, March 21, 1986 (4 pp.).
J.
Bortnick, "National and International
Information Policy," Jour. Amer. Soc. Inf. Sci. 36: 164-68 (May
1985).
Canadian-U.S.
Conference on Communications Policy, Cultures in Collision (New York: Praeger, 1984).
Special sub-section: "It not our First
Amendment"
German Embassy (
German Embassy (
D. Coursey,
"Yahoo!: Pedaphiles, no; Nazis, yes," ZDNet
News, Nov. 22, 2000. [About Yahoo auctions in
L.
E. Deskins, "UNESCO's Proposal to License
Journalists: Protection vs. Control." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Association for Education in Journalism (65th,
3. Ethics & Policy
Jane B. Singer, "Objectivity in an Interconnected
World," Media Ethics online,
Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring 2007). Available at: http://www.mediaethicsmagazine.com/news/2007/07/01/AnalysesCommentary/Spring.2007.Vol.18.No.2objectivity.In.An.Interconnected.World-2923328.shtml
Jeffrey
Shallit, "Public Networks and Censorship,"
in P. Ludlow, ed., High Noon on the
Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace. (Cambridge, MA &
London: MIT Press, 1996). Available at: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/ola.html
John
Perry Barlow, "A Declaration of the
David Brin, "Getting Our Priorities
Straight," in P. Ludlow, ed., Crypto
Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias. (
http://books.google.com/books?id=PGcazfru0R8C&pg=PA27&sig=98NRU8F3JR3ZwV59KSRyp1ic2cQ#PPA31,M1
4. Privacy
J.
H. Moor, "The Ethics of Privacy Protection," Library Trends
39:69-82 (1990).
R.
W. Kastenmeier, et al., "Communications Privacy:
A Legislative Perspective,"
F.
Weingarten, "Communications Technology: New Challenges to Privacy," John
Marshall Law Review 21:735-53 (1988).
U.
S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, The
Electronic Supervisor: New Technologies, New Tensions (Washington, D.C.:
USGPO, 1987)
U.
S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic Surveillance and
Civil Liberties (
T.
Baker, "Does Privacy Have a Principle," Stanford Law Review
26: 1161-89 (1974).
RFID Switchboard, "What Does
Privacy Mean in the Context of RFID?" and "Technological Alternatives
for Privacy." Available at: http://www.rfidsb.com/index.php?page=rfidsb&c_ID=131
RFID Switchboard,
"Framing the RFID Privacy Policy." Available at: http://www.rfidsb.com/index.php?page=rfidsb&c_ID=150
U.S. National Inst. for Science &
Technology, "NIST Issues Guidelines for Ensuring RFID Security (April
2007)." http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/rfidsecurity.html (Full report at: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-98/SP800-98_RFID-2007.pdf )
5. Digital Convergence--a
Variety of Aspects and Views
(A) Convergence is here; it just doesn't look like what we
expected.
Local telecom
regulation during the transition
Y.
Braunstein, "Economic Issues of Local Regulatory Forbearance." Pacific
Telecommunications Conference, January 2007.
Available at: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~bigyale/Braunstein-Econ%20Issues%20Local%20Regl%20Forbearance%20111906.pdf
Competition in Wired
Video Delivery
Y.
Braunstein, "Expected Consumer Benefits from
Wired Video Competition in
(B) The Mass Media, Common Carriage, Media Ownership
Rob Frieden, "What Do
Pizza Delivery and Information Services Have in Common? Lessons From Recent Judicial and Regulatory Struggles with
Convergence," presented at The Wharton Colloquium on Media and
Communications, Philadelphia,
Eli Noam, "The Impending Doom of Common Carriage"
(March 15, 1994), 18 Telecommunications Policy 435 (1994).
Available at: http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citinoam11.html
FCC
Media Bureau, Further Report on the Packaging and
T.
J. Brennan, "Integrating Communication Theory into Media Policy: An
Economic Perspective," Telecommunications Policy 16: 460-474 (Aug.
1992)
B.
M. Compaine, Anatomy of the Communications
Industry: Who Owns the Media?,
(White Plains: Knowledge Ind. Publ., 1983). (Earlier versions titled Who
Owns the Media?.)
B.
M. Owen, The Economics of the Freedom of
Expression (
John
F. Sturm, "Time for Change on Media Cross-Ownership Regulation," 57 Fed. Comm. L.J. 201 (2005).
C.
Edwin Baker, "Media Concentration: Giving up on Democracy," 54
Y.
Braunstein, " The
FCC's Financial Qualification Requirements: Economic Evaluation of a Barrier to
Entry for Minority Broadcasters," FCLJ, Vol. 53, Number 1 (Dec. 2000),
pages 69-89. Available at: http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v53/no1/braunstein.pdf
(C) Content Regulation
Sandra Braman, "The
Ideal v. the Real in Media Localism: Regulatory Implications," 12 Comm. L. & Policy 231 (Summer, 2007).
Philip M. Napoli and Sheea
T. Sybblis, "Access to Audiences as a First
Amendment Right: Its Relevance and Implications for Electronic Media
Policy," 12
Adam Thierer, "Why
Regulate Broadcasting? Toward a Consistent First Amendment
Standard for the Information Age," 15 Commlaw Conspectus 431(2007).
Ellen P. Goodman, "Media Policy Out of the Box:
Content Abundance, Attention Scarcity, and the Failures of Digital
Markets," 19
(D) Broadband Industry Structure
OECD,
Communications Outlook 2005 (OECD:
Rob
Frieden, "Lessons from broadband development in
My favorite statement on the NII: "The National Information
Infrastructure is currently inactive. For historical and research purposes the
following information will remain available online for six months." (No longer available at
William J.
Clinton & Albert Gore, Jr., "A Framework for Global Electronic
Commerce." Available at: http://www.technology.gov/digeconomy/framewrk.htm
W.
S. Baer, "Government Investment in Telecommunications
Infrastructure," in National Research Council, Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board, The Changing
Nature of Telecommunications/ Information Infrastructure (1995).
R.
E. Kahn, "Economic Dividends of Government Investment in Research and
Technology Development," in NRC, The Changing Nature...(1995)
J.
A. Hart, R. R. Reed & F. Bar, "The Building of the Internet:
Implications for the Future of Broadband Networks," Telecommunications
Policy 16: 666-689 (Nov. 1992)
M.
Kapor, Building the Open Road: The NREN as
Test-Bed for the National Public Network (Network Working Group RFC-1259,
September 1991); Available at: http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1259.html
National
Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Keeping the
U.S. Computer Industry Competitive (2 vols.,
1990).
Amy
Friedlander, "Infrastructure: The Utility of Past as Prologue?" in Fostering
Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology.(Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1998) 165-187.
M. Jussawalla & R. D. Taylor, ed., Information
Technology Parks of the
National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Signposts
in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation (National
Academies Press, 2005).
(E) Infrastructure and New Technologies (VoIP, mobile, etc.)
Kas Kalba, Telecom
in the Time of Crash, Program on Information Resources Policy,
ITU, "VoIP around the world," ITU News 1,
2005, pp. 9-12.
Jeff
Tyson and Robert Valdes, How VoIP Works. Available at: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ip-telephony.htm
.
Global Internet Policy Initiative, "Voice-over-IP: The Future of
Communications," April 2002. Available at: www.internetpolicy.net/practices/voip.pdf.
Richard Ling and Birgitte Yttri,
eds., Perpetual contact: mobile
communication, private talk, public performance (
James B. Murray, Jr., Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular
Revolution in
Yale M.
Braunstein and Kas Kalba,
"Reviewing 3G 'Optimism': Services, Segments and Stages of Reality,"
paper presented at the 8th International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia
Communications, October 5-8, 2003,
(F) Access, Universal Service, Interconnection
[As
a topic, universal service includes aspects of several issues, including access
to information, public vs. private provision, user fees, the functioning of
markets, and common carrier policy. Below are a few interesting cites and a
link to the FCC's Universal Service home page.]
Rob
Frieden, "Killing With Kindness: Fatal Flaws in
the Universal Service Funding Mission and What Should be Done to Narrow the
Digital Divide", presented at the 33rd Annual Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia
(Sep. 24, 2005). Available at: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/m/rmf5/TPRC05.ppt
Milton
L. Mueller, Jr., Universal Service:
Competition, Interconnection, and Monopoly in the Making of the American
Telephone System (1997).
M.
Mueller & J. Schement, "Universal Service
from the Bottom Up: A Profile of Telecommunications Access in
M.
Mueller, "Universal Service in Telephone History: a Reconstruction," Telecommunications
Policy 18:352-69 (July 1993).
U.
S. Federal Communications Commission, Common Carrier Bureau,
Available at: http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/universal_service/welcome.html
6. Net Neutrality
Rob Frieden, "Network Neutrality or
Bias?--Handicapping the Odds for a Tiered and Branded Internet," 29
Rob Frieden,
"Internet 3.0: Identifying Problems and Solutions to the Network
Neutrality Debate," 1 International Journal of Communications,
461 (2007); available at: http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/160/86.
Christopher S. Yoo, "Network Neutrality and the Economics of Congestion,"
94 Geo. L.J. 1847 (2006).
Christopher S. Yoo,
"Beyond Network Neutrality," 19 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 1, (2005).
Christopher S. Yoo,
"Would Mandating Broadband Network Neutrality
Help or Hurt Competition? A Comment on the End-to-End
Debate," 3 J. on Telecom. & High Tech. L. 23, 51 (2004).
Brett Frischmann & Barbara van Schewick, "Yoo's Frame and
What It Ignores: Network Neutrality and the Economics of
an Information Superhighway," 47 Jurimetrics
J. (forthcoming); available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014691.
Craig McTaggart, "Was The Internet Ever Neutral?" paper
presented at the 34th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet
Policy, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia (rev. Sep.
30, 2006); available at: http://web.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2006/593/mctaggart-tprc06rev.pdf.
Tim Wu, "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination," 2 J. Telecom & High Tech Law 141 (2005); available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=388863.
Mark A. Lemley and
Nicholas Economides, "Net Neutrality--Non-Discrimination and
Digital Distribution of Content through the Internet." Available at: http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1096&context=nyu/lewp
. Slides available at: http://www.slideshare.net/arnic/nick-economides-net-neutrality-on-the-internet
.
7. General Consumer Issues
(including Health and Medicine)
National
Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, For the
Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information (1997).
State
of
Samples of sites that assist in online diagnosis for
mental illness: [Important: see all disclaimers
below!]
H. B. Noble, "E-Medicine--A special report: Hailed as a Surgeon General,
Koop is faulted on web ethics." New York Times, Sept. 5, 1999.
Health On the Net Foundation
is the leading organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and
reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient
use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization,
accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
8. Ownership of
Information: Property Rights
R.
H. Coase, "The Problem of Social Cost," Jour.
of Law and Economics 3: 1 (1960). Also available at: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2186(196010)3%3C1%3ATPOSC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
[A good discussion is in: "School's
Brief: Of Bees and Lighthouses," The Economist (Feb. 23, 1991), pp.
72-73.]
H. Demsetz, "Toward a Theory of
Property Rights," Amer. Econ. Rev. 57: 347-59 (1967).
Available at: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282(196705)57%3A2%3C347%3ATATOPR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
Special sub-section:
residual rights
Writers
Guild of
R. K. Filer, "A Theoretical Analysis of the Impact of
Artists' Resale Royalties Legislation," Jour. of Cultural Econ. :1-28 (Summer 1984).
T. Goetzl & S. A.
Sutton, "Copyright and the Visual Artist's Display Right,"
Special sub-section:
databases
Y. M. Braunstein, Economic Impacts of Database Protection in
Developing Countries Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights,
World Intellectual Property Organization (
Alternative
views available at:
More general:
William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner, The Economic Structure
of Intellectual Property Law,
[See
also the first two readings in Section 11.]
9. Intellectual Freedom
J.-P.
Chamoux, "Free Speech and Property Rights,"
in (M. Jussawalla).
D.
E. Denning & H. S. Lin, eds., Rights and Responsibilities of
Participants in Networked Communities, National Research Council, Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board (1994).
P.
Wilson, "Copyright, Derivative Rights, and the First Amendment," Library
Trends 39:92-110 (Special Issue on Intellectual Freedom, Summer/Fall 1990).
10. Access to Information
C.
A. Lynch, "Future Roles of Libraries in Citizen Access to Information
Resources through the National Information Infrastructure," in National
Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The
Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure (1995).
Government Information Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1989 (Special issue discussing the OTA
report).
P. Hernon and C. R. McClure, Public Access To Government Information: Issues, Trends, And Strategies,
2nd ed. (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988).
American
Library Association, Commission on Freedom and Equality, Freedom And Equality Of Access To Information: A Report To The
American Library Association (Chicago: ALA, 1986). (Referred
to as Lacy Commission Report.)
N.
L. Eaton, "Freedom and Equality of Access to Information: The Lacy
Commission Report," Library Trends 39:111-25 (1990).
11. Public vs. Private
Provision of Information
Information
Industry Association, "Meeting Information Needs in the New Information
Age: A Policy Statement on the Roles of the Public and Private Sectors." (Washington, DC: IIA, 1983).
D.
D. McDonald, "Public Sector/Private Sector Interaction in Information
Services" in M.E. Williams, ed., ASIS Annual Review of Information
Science and Technology, Vol 17, p. 83-98 (1982).
U. S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Public
Sector/Private Sector Interaction in Providing Information Services. 1982
12. User Fees for
Government-Provided Information
M.
D. Cooper & N. A. DeWath, "The Effect of
User Fees on the Cost of On-Line Searching in Libraries" in D. W. King, et
al., Key Papers in the Economics of Information (White Plains: Knowledge
Ind. Publ., 1983).
N.
A. Van House, Public Library User Fees (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1983)
C.
A. Casper, "Economic Pricing Models and Their Application to Library
Services" in R. M. Mason & J. E. Creps, Jr.,
Information Services: Economics, Management, and Technology (Boulder: Westview Press, 1981).
13. Information Markets
S.
M. Besen, et al., "Copyright Liability for Cable
Television: Compulsory Licensing and the Coase
Theorem," Jour. of Law and Economics 21:67-95 (1978).
N.
Economides, "Competition Policy in Network Industries: An
Introduction," in Dennis Jansen (ed.), The New Economy: Just How New is
It (
14. Standards, Elements of
Industrial Policy
N.
Economides, "Compatibility and the Creation of Shared Networks," in Guerrin-Calvert & Wildman (1991). Available at: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/91-16abs.html
H. L. Gandel, ed., Product Standardization and Competitive Strategy (Amsterdam &
New York: Elsevier, 1987).
Y. M. Braunstein & L. White, "Economics of Technical
Compatibility Standards," Antitrust Bulletin 30:337 (1985). Available at: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~bigyale/Braunstein_white_tech_comp_stds.pdf
RFID Switchboard, "RFID
Standards and Regulations." Available at: http://www.rfidsb.com/index.php?page=rfidsb&c_ID=175
15. RFID [Additional
references under Privacy, Standards, and National Security sections]
European Commission, Towards
an RFID Policy for
Web site: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/rfid/index_en.htm
Communication - steps towards a policy framework (March 2007):
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/rfid/doc/rfid_en.pdf
Complete online consultation report (March 2007):
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/rfid/doc/rfidswp_en.pdf
Workshop report (de Voort & Ligtvoet, August 2006):
Laurie
Sullivan, "Policy Gaps Impeding Government RFID Adoption," (Information Week, November 2004): http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=54200218
Beth
Givens, RFID and the Public Policy Void (August 2003). Available at: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/RFIDHearing.htm
Simson Garfinkel, Beth
Rosenberg, RFID: Applications, Security,
and Privacy. (Addison-Wesley Professional 2005).
16. Trans-border Data
Flows [See also cites
in International section above.]
M. Jussawalla, et al., "Major Issues in Information
Services Trade," in C. H. Lee and S. Naya, Trade
and Investment in Services in the Asia-Pacific Region (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1987).
P.
Robinson, "Transborder Data Flows: An Overview
of the Issues," in Transborder Data
Flows (North-Holland for OECD, 1985).
Peter Cowhey, "Building the Global
17. National Security
Stayed
tuned for additional links as this is an evolving topic:
Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic
Surveillance to Gather Foreign Intelligence Information -- January 5, 2006. Available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/m010506.pdf
U.
S. Department of Homeland Security, National Infrastructure Advisory Council
(NIAC), The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, (GPO, 2003).
Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/ .
U. S.
Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Defending Secrets, Sharing Data:
New Locks and Keys for Electronic Information (
S.
N. Milevski, "Federal Policy-Making and National
Security Controls on Information," Library Trends 39:132-44
.
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