Broadcast - Telecom
Convergence
August 2007. The Center
has been commissioned to investigate
the convergence of broadcasting and
telecommunications in the United States. The
report will survey the current regulatory
regime in the US and the way it is
responding to broadcast-telecom convergence,
assess the impact of such convergence on
related industries, analyze the policy
implications of convergence, and identify
trends and project the future direction they
will take. The research will focus
especially on IPTV, mobile broadcasting
services, digital broadcasting and video
franchising in the cable TV and telephone
industries. The sponsor
is South Korea's Electronic and
Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI).
ETRI Senior Researcher Sangkyu Byun will
come to Syracuse as Visiting Scholar in
September to assist with the report.
Research
on Wireless Net Neutrality
October 2006. Working at the OECD in Paris,
Dr. Mueller initiated research on the role of
vertical integration across handsets,
connectivity and content in the evolution of
the mobile internet. It attempts to document
two important aspects of the industry: 1) how
extensive these vertical relationships are in
the mobile Internet, and 2) whether vertical
ties are strengthening or weakening as the
technology improves and mobile Internet grows
in scope and significance.
Research
on Handset Convergence presented at ICIS06
May 9, 2006. Conjoint research by Milton
Mueller and Yuri Park on the convergence of
telephone handsets and digital cameras was presented at the International Conference on
Imaging Science (ICIS) in Rochester, NY. The
new paper uses conjoint research to
investigate whether camera phones will replace
stand-alone digital cameras, or supplement the
sales of digital cameras and increase sales of
related digital imaging services?
Conference site
EGov Executive Master's Degree
May, 2007. Eight
Universities and Institutes from Europe to
Asia and North America are partnering to offer
a globalized Executive Master's degree on
E-Governance in 2007. The degree program will
be offered by the
Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (EPFL). Students
will literally travel the world exploring new
applications and best practices in ICTs and to
benefit from instruction by some of the
world's most prominent experts. Curriculum
will cover both "e-government" (i.e., the use
of ICTs to improve government operations and
service delivery) and policy and governance
issues associated with the growing
dependence on information-communication
technology. The SU School of Information
Studies is offering the North American
module.
Convening
in New York reviews "Movement in the Making" Research
October 28 2005. Fifteen of the
world's top scholars on social movements and
international communication-information policy
from the disciplines of political science,
sociology, communication, information studies,
law and policy studies met in New
York October 28 to review and discuss results from the
Center's research on transnational collective
action in communication-information policy.
The convening was made possible by the
Ford Foundation’s Electronic Media Policy
Program
