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October 2011
The Federal Communications Commission held a nearly three hour-long public hearing at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to discuss recent findings on the needs of local coverage in journalism.
The hearing consisted of three panels of media experts that focused on different topics: broadband access, broadcasting rights and new digital media. The topics...
August 2011
Philadelphia city officials estimate 41 percent of residents cannot afford computers or to pay for Internet access. But Mayor Michael Nutter plans to change that.
Philadelphia plans to set up 48 computer centers - like the one at the People’s Emergency Center - in other shelters, recreation centers and libraries.
It will also distribute more than 5,000 laptops to low-income families...
July 2011
The lack of correlation between the level of concentration in local wireless service markets and prices for those services “invalidates” any efforts by government officials to demand market-by-market divestitures as they review the proposed AT&T, Inc., acquisition of T-Mobile USA, Inc., according to Jeff Eisenach, managing director and principal at Navigant Economics.
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June 2011
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Program Director, Anne Neville, offered the keynote address Tuesday morning at the Broadband Breakfast Club’s June event, "The National Broadband Map: Policy, Consumer and Economic Development Implications.”
Neville, who oversees the development of the National Broadband Map, kicked off the event with an...
June 2011
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies held a panel on Wednesday on how the federal government should promote broadband adoption and access to underserved communities. The panel served as an update the National Broadband Plan, which came out one year ago.
“The biggest mistake we made when working on the plan was using the current framework to solve tomorrow’s...
March 2011
The bipartisan technology policy group TechNet gathered government officials and leading broadband scholars Tuesday to present the first set of academic research using data from the national broadband map.
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Ying Li and Mikyung Baek from the Joint Center on Political and Economic Studies looked at the correlation between broadband availability, income and race in Los Angeles, Chicago and...
March 2011
Nearly a year after the issuance of the National Broadband Plan (NBP), the plan's lead architect told a policy gathering on Wednesday that the Federal Communications Commission did not take the right approach to increasing broadband adoption among low-income households, and that it should be changed.
Blair Levin, who was Executive Director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative at the FCC...
March 2011
As the one-year anniversary of the National Broadband Plan looms near, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Joint Center) hosted a forum on March 2 entitled, The National Broadband Plan and the Underserved – One Year Later.
A program of the Joint Center’s Media and Technology Institute (MTI), this event was geared toward discerning progress in implementing the Plan...
Press Release
July 2011
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies invites you to a Technology Policy Forum sponsored by its Media and Technology Institute on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, on “The New Digital Profile: Managing Privacy in an Evolving, Mobile Internet.”The role that privacy plays in broadband adoption and social media has emerged as a key policy issue. With more new adopters, particularly...
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June 2011
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Program Director, Anne Neville, offered the keynote address Tuesday morning at the Broadband Breakfast Club’s June event, ”The National Broadband Map: Policy, Consumer and Economic Development Implications.” Highlights of the program included discussion of research institutions' usage and sharing of the data. Dr. Nicol Turner-...
Archived Research
March 1, 2006
During the last decade, technology has changed significantly and the diffusion of various forms of technology throughout the United States has been widespread, but uneven. Measuring the Divide examines the "digital divide" and several of the major factors that affect Internet use across and within racial groups, especially among African Americans. It also looks at how those who do have Internet...
January 1, 2000
The numbers reported in this factsheet are based on the Joint Center's 1998 and 1999 National Opinion Polls. The 1998 responses are from telephone interviews with 1,606 adults, conducted in September 1998. The sample included a national general population sample of 850 and a national sample of 850 African Americans. The 1999 responses are based on telephone interviews with 1,678 adults, a...
