[Air-L] Please recommend an excellent textbook on " ICT Policy "

Tue Jan 6 10:19:30 PST 2015

I'm glad we're sharing this information. Thanks everyone. I teach both and undergraduate and graduate course in information policy and also use Sandra's book. I'm excited about the Internet Law text, thanks Meg!

I want to add that I also include a few selected chapters about the policy process and policy analysis. In the undergraduate class this turns out to be a guiding feature of the course and in the grad course it's something we review over one or two lectures and go back to if needed. 

Eugene Bardach's "A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis" breaks down the process into 8 steps. I find this a very effective way to introduce my undergraduates to the processes going on in conjunction with the issues. You can find a review here: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2012/09/11/book-review-a-practical-guide-for-policy-analysis-by-eugene-bardach/ 

Generally, I focus the course around a current debate - this quarter it will be Net Neutrality. We then look at the background history of policy and other contemporary issues while following the debates and legislation related to the main issue.

Kris

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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Please recommend an excellent textbook on " ICT Policy "

I would second Michael on this.
Indeed, I attempted to send this previously - but fouled up (too many email accounts ...)

I teach a MA-level course, provocatively titled "Pornography, Protection, and Power", which focuses on the challenges of Internet regulation in particular.
Lots of articles are necessary for the obvious reasons - too many changes, too quickly, etc.  But I've found two books to be quite useful:

R. Mansell and M. Raboy (Eds). 2011. The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy.  (Available online)

Braman, Sandra. 2012.  Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power. MIT Press.

Mansell and Raboy collect an extensive number of articles that represent a very wide range of issues, approaches, and perspectives, including attention to diverse cultural dimensions, gender matters, North vs. South, etc.
Their introductory chapter is good for an a first overview of main histories, developments, and topics - but Sandra's text goes into all of this in much greater detail.  She also provides extensive bibliographic essays for each of her chapters that will benefit both beginning and seasoned researchers in these domains.
The two also balance one another very nicely as Sandra provides strong coverage of U.S.-based developments, interests, approaches, etc., which are largely only referred to in the Mansell and Raboy collection.
From my perspective, Sandra's concluding chapter is especially helpful as a masterful summary of what might be called the state of play between the diverse interests, agents and stakeholders, principle conflicts, etc.
vis-a-vis policy trends, the relationships between social theory and information policy, and so on - all with a clear and consistent focus on the implications of all of these for democratic processes and values.

Will be happy to learn in turn what others might find useful as well!

Good luck and best wishes,
- charles ess

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On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Michael T Zimmer <zimmerm at uwm.edu> wrote:

> I’d also suggest Sandra Braman’s “Change of State: Information, 
> Policy, and Power”
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> Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center 
> for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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> On Jan 6, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Meg Ambrose <Meg.Ambrose at georgetown.edu 
> <mailto:Meg.Ambrose at georgetown.edu>> wrote:
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> I use James Grimmelmann's Internet Law: Cases and Problems 4.0 
> <http://internetcasebook.com/>.  My students love the content and the 
> price (pay-what-you-want). It's intense but gets students into cases, 
> legislation, committee findings, etc. without bogging them down. I 
> can't recommend the text enough for graduate students.
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:03 AM, joo-seong Hwang <jameshwang9 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jameshwang9 at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
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> I will open a graduate class next semester on "ICT Policy".
> I would like to teach and discuss on such various topics as 
> telecommunication regulation policies, convergence policies, IT 
> industry promotion policies, personal data protection, intellectual 
> property rights, science and technology policies on ICT...etc.
>
> I know that these topics are too broad to be covered in a single textbook.
> That is why I have done it with a long list of individual papers 
> instead. I hope I could find a compatible one this time.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> James
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