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Reconfiguring public access in the post-convergence era: The social construction of public access to new media in Austin, Texas.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reconfiguring public access in the post-convergence era: The social construction of public access to new media in Austin, Texas./
Author:	Fuentes-Bautista, Martha.
Description:	376 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-12, Section: A, page: 4906.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3290881
ISBN:	9780549349686

Reconfiguring public access in the post-convergence era: The social construction of public access to new media in Austin, Texas.
Fuentes-Bautista, Martha.

Reconfiguring public access in the post-convergence era: The social construction of public access to new media in Austin, Texas. - 376 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-12, Section: A, page: 4906.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2007.

This dissertation examines the impacts of shifting federal and state regulation on localities and on their efforts to extend public access to new technologies by exploring how libraries, diverse community sites and commercial hotspots have configured their services and programs in Austin, Texas in the last decade. Historically, regulation to ensure public access to communication and information systems have been regarded in the United States as an expression of government's concerns about preserving the public interest in the media. Since the early 1990s, diverse policy initiatives promoting public access to information and communication technology (ICT) sought to fulfill ideals of equity and democracy in the information age. However, an increasing preponderance of neoliberal ideology in current policy discourses, coupled with the explosive growth of high-speed, mobile networks, and individual-based, social software applications are challenging traditional notions of public access in communication policy. Since 2002, federal and state governments have ended a decade of direct government support to local, non-profit and community-based programs that facilitated public access to ICT. Over the same period, they have increasingly pursued a market-oriented approach to broadband access through the unlicensed spectrum, encouraging private enterprises to provider Wi-Fi and wireless services to consumers in restaurants, airports, and other public places. Such changes bear significant implications for issues of governance, participatory democracy and equity in the information age.

ISBN: 9780549349686Subjects--Topical Terms:

626625
Sociology, Theory and Methods.

Reconfiguring public access in the post-convergence era: The social construction of public access to new media in Austin, Texas.
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