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Johannes M. Bauer is the Quello Chair for Media and Information Policy in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. He also serves as the Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center at Michigan State University.
Bauer is a social scientist with Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria.
Bauer joined Michigan State University in 1990. From 1993 until 1998, he directed the Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. Between 2001 and 2009, he held several management positions at the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law. Bauer taught and researched as a visiting professor at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (2000-2001); the University of Constance, Germany (2010); and the Institute of Media and Communications Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2012). He served as the Chairperson of the Department of Media and Information from January 2013 through May 2019.
His research covers a wide range of issues related to the evolution of communications and information industries, in particular the design and effects of public policies towards these industries, and business strategies in network industries, often from a comparative and international perspective. Ongoing projects address issues of digital inequality with an emphasis on the homework gap, the design of 5G markets and policy, digital innovation, network neutrality, and cybersecurity. Earlier projects dealt with the role of Internet Service Providers in botnet mitigation, the changing role of the state in telecommunications, and the governance of next-generation communications networks and services. Funded, among others, by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the OECD, and the ITU, his work is published in journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Information Economics and Policy, Applied Economics, Government Information Quarterly, Communications & Strategies, Telematics & Informatics, and Info.
Bauer has worked in advisory capacity with public and private sector organizations in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and training programs for professionals from government and industry. Service to the academic community includes roles as consulting editor of Telecommunications Policy, and membership on the editorial boards of Information Economics and Policy, the Journal of Information Policy, and the International Telecommunications Policy Review. From 2010 through 2013, Bauer served as the Chairperson of TPRC, the Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the iSchools Board of Directors and a Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of LIRNEasia, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
In 2005, he founded Synthesys, Inc., a company specializing on developing practical solutions to complex problems in business and public policy.
Bauer, J.M. (2018), The Internet and income inequality: socio-economic challenges in a hyperconnected society, Telecommunications Policy, 42(4): 333-343.
Bauer, J.M. & Knieps, G. (2018), Complementary innovation and network neutrality, Telecommunications Policy, 42(2): 172-183.
Garcia-Murillo, M., MacInnes, I., & Bauer, J.M. (2018). Techno-unemployment: A framework for assessing the effects of information and communication technologies on work, Telematics & Informatics, 13(7): 1863-1876.
Bauer, J.M. and Latzer, M. (eds.) (2016), Handbook on the Economics of the Internet, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Asghari, H., van Eeten, M.J.G., & Bauer, J.M. (2015), Economics of fighting botnets: Lessons from a decade of mitigation, IEEE Privacy & Security, September/October: 16-23.
Bauer, J.M. (2015), Governing the mobile broadband ecosystem, International Telecommunications Policy Review, 22(2): 1-27.
Bauer, J.M. (2014), Platforms, systems competition, and innovation: reassessing the foundations of communications policy, Telecommunications Policy, 38.
Bauer, J.M., Madden, G., & Morey, A. (2014), Effects of economic conditions and policy interventions on OECD broadband adoption, Applied Economics, 46(12): 1361-1372.
Bauer, J.M. & Obar, J.A. (2014), Reconciling political and economic goals in the net neutrality debate, The Information Society, 30(1), p. 1-19.
LaRose, R., Bauer, J.M., DeMaagd, K., Chew, H.E., Ma, W., & Jung, Y. (2014), Public broadband investment priorities in the United States: an analysis of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, Government Information Quarterly, 31(1): 53-64.
Local loop unbundling is the regulatory process of allowing multiple telecommunications operators to use connections from the telephone exchange to the customer's premises. The physical wire connection between the local exchange and the customer is known as a "local loop", and is owned by the incumbent local exchange carrier. To increase competition, other providers are granted unbundled access.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security.
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the President's principal adviser on telecommunications policies pertaining to the United States' economic and technological advancement and to regulation of the telecommunications industry.
The telecommunications policy of the United States is a framework of law directed by government and the regulatory commissions, most notably the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Two landmark acts prevail today, the Communications Act of 1934 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The latter was intended to revise the first act and specifically to foster competition in the telecommunications industry.
Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, a destination address, or method of communication.
Henry Isaac Ergas is an economist who has worked at the OECD, Australian Trade Practices Commission as well as at a number of economic consulting firms. He chaired the Australian Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee set up by the Australian Federal Government in 1999 to review Australia's intellectual property laws as they relate to competition policy.
The James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law is a research center at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Part of the Department of Media and Information at the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, the Quello Center is dedicated to original research on issues of information and communication management, law and policy. It is named for former Federal Communications Commission chairman James H. Quello.
Steven S. Wildman is a U.S. scholar, academician and researcher who teaches and researches at one of the top-rated American communications programs at the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Wildman also serves as co-director of the university's Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law.
There are several approaches to defining the substance and scope of technology policy.
The Internet in the United States grew out of the ARPANET, a network sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s. The Internet in the United States in turn provided the foundation for the worldwide Internet of today.
Eli M. Noam is a professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School, and holds the Paul Garrett Chair in Public Policy and Business Responsibility. He is the director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). He works on the economics, management, and policy of media and the digital world, most recently on global media ownership and on next-generation “Cloud-TV”. He has written over 400 articles and has authored, edited, and co-edited over 30 books.
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The Federal Communications Commission Open Internet Order of 2010 is a set of regulations that move towards the establishment of the internet neutrality concept. Some opponents of net neutrality believe such internet regulation would inhibit innovation by preventing providers from capitalizing on their broadband investments and reinvesting that money into higher quality services for consumers. Supporters of net neutrality argue that the presence of content restrictions by network providers represents a threat to individual expression and the rights of the First Amendment. Open Internet strikes a balance between these two camps by creating a compromised set of regulations that treats all internet traffic in "roughly the same way". In Verizon v. FCC, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated portions of the order that the court determined could only be applied to common carriers.
Net bias is the counter-principle to net neutrality, which indicates differentiation or discrimination of price and the quality of content or applications on the Internet by ISPs. Similar terms include data discrimination, digital redlining, and network management.
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