Background to the Digital Society / Economy

COURSE MATERIALS

Course Units   Weeks 2 & 3: The setting - Background to the Digital Society / Economy   Week 4: RF Spectrum Policy   Week 5: Satellite TV (Kristen)   Week 6 WED 5/15, 12:30-3:00pm (So-Hye): Broadband internet access   Week 7: Wireless Competition Policy -- EU vs. US (Topsy)   Week 8: Wi-Fi - Creative Destruction? (Agnes)   Week 9: San Diego's Telecom Valley (Caroline)   Other  Weeks 2 & 3: The setting - Background to the Digital Society / Economy Title / Author File Format File Type Date Added The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain by James Boyle  Required PDF Document Reading 8 Apr 2002 Tools: The Drivers of E-Commerce by · Cohen, Stephen, J. Bradford DeLong, Steven Weber, and John Zysman  in the BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project ed., Tracking a Transformation: E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2001). Pp. 3-26  Required PDF Document Reading 8 Apr 2002 What Is The Internet (And What Makes It Work) by Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf  December 1999  Required HTML Document Reading 8 Apr 2002 How New Is Today's Economy? by Brad De Long  Required HTML Document Reading 8 Apr 2002 The New Economy: Background, Questions, Speculations by DeLong, J. Bradford and Lawrence Summers  Required PDF Document Reading 8 Apr 2002 The Assessment: Economics of the Internet by Andrew Graham  Oxf Rev Econ Policy 2001 17: 145-158.  Required PDF Document Reading 8 Apr 2002 The Economics of the Internet: Infrastructure and Regulation by Martin Cave and Robin Mason  Oxf Rev Econ Policy 2001 17: 188-201  Required PDF Document Reading 8 Apr 2002  Week 4: RF Spectrum Policy Title / Author File Format File Type Date Added The Wireless Craze, The Unlimited Bandwidth Myth, The Spectrum Auction Faux Pas, and the Punchline to Ronald Coase's "Big Joke": An Essay on Airwave Allocation Policy. by Thomas W. Hazlett  AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper 01-02. January 2001.  Required PDF Document Reading 17 Apr 2002 Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment by Yochai Benkler  11 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 287 (1998)   Required PDF Document Reading 17 Apr 2002 The Next Frontier for Openness: Wireless Communications by Eli Noam  Paper for the 2001 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, October 26, 2001 Alexandria, Virginia  Required HTML Document Reading 17 Apr 2002 Wireless Data Blaster by David Leeper  Scientific American, May 2002  Required HTML Document Reading 17 Apr 2002 RADIO-SIGNAL TECHNICALITIES Scientific American, May 2002  Optional HTML Document Reading 24 Apr 2002  Week 5: Satellite TV (Kristen) Title / Author File Format File Type Date Added Pakistani Television Politics in the 1990s: Responses to the Satellite Invasion Required PDF Document Reading 3 May 2002 Blueprints for Egypt's Satellite Channels: Regrouping the Options by Redefining the Debate Required PDF Document Reading 3 May 2002 Thatcherism and the emergence of Sky Televisionby King, Anthony  Media, Culture & Society 20, no. 2(1998): 277-2  Required PDF Document 3 May 2002 Poor policy and dubious law: Pornography satellite television and the British state by McPherson, Campbell  Media, Culture & Society 21, no. 5 (1999): 687-6  Required PDF Document 3 May 2002 Full reading list by Kristen  This documents contains links to various papers and news stories, in addition to the four journal articles listed above. These are all optional, but it would be good if you could look at a couple of them in advance of Monday's class.  Optional Microsoft Word 3 May 2002  Week 6 WED 5/15, 12:30-3:00pm (So-Hye): Broadband internet access Title / Author File Format File Type Date Added Resolving Policy Chaos in High Speed Internet Access by Roger G. Noll  SIEPR Policy paper No. 01-013 (January 2002)  Required PDF Document Reading 3 May 2002 The Vertical Dimension of Cable Open Access by James Speta  71 Colo. L. Rev. 975 (2000)   Required PDF Document 6 May 2002 The Next-Generation Internet: Promoting Innovation and User-Experimentation by Bar, François, Stephen Cohen, Peter Cowhey, Brad DeLong, Michael Kleeman, and John Zysman  in Tracking a Transformation: E-commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries, The BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project Task Force on the Internet, eds., Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001. (pp. 435-473)  Required PDF Document 6 May 2002 Investment in Cable Broadband Infrastructure: Open Access is Not an Obstacle by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason  A policy research study, with research support from the OpenNet Coalition.  Required PDF Document 6 May 2002  Week 7: Wireless Competition Policy -- EU vs. US (Topsy) Title / Author File Format File Type Date Added Spectrum Auctions and Efficient Resource Allocation: Learning from the 3G Experience in Europe Required PDF Document 9 May 2002 The Telecoms Trade War: The United States, The European Union and The World Trade Organization Required PDF Document 9 May 2002 From Open Networks to Open Markets: How Public Policy Affects Infrastructure Investment Decisions Required PDF Document 9 May 2002 Standards for Personal Communications in Europe and the United State Required PDF Document 9 May 2002 European Telecommunications Infrastructure by Martin Cave and Luigi Prosperetti  Oxf Rev Econ Policy 2001; 17:416-431  Required PDF Document 9 May 2002 M-Commerce: Advantage, Europe McKinsey Quarterly (free registration is required to view article)  Required PDF Document 9 May 2002  Week 8: Wi-Fi - Creative Destruction? (Agnes) Title / Author File Format File Type Date Added When the FCC Knocks on Your Door by Jim Wagner  ISP-Planet, May 16, 2002  Optional HTML Document Reading 21 May 2002 Commission Amends Part 15 of its Rules to Facilitate Development of High Speed Wireless Services. 5/16/02  Optional Microsoft Word Reading 21 May 2002 A New Paradigm in Intellectual Property Law? The Case Against Open Sources by Mathias Strasser  Required HTML Document 2 Jun 2002 Wi-Fi's bright future signals new strategy by Christina Torode  Crn; Jericho; Feb 18, 2002;   Required HTML Document 2 Jun 2002 Entering the 'W' zone by Stuart J Johnston  InfoWorld; Mar 11, 2002  Required HTML Document 2 Jun 2002 Introduction to Wireless LANs by WLANA  Required PDF Document 2 Jun 2002 Wireless LANS - Poised for Untethered Growth by Jeff Abramovitz  Required PDF Document 2 Jun 2002 WLAN security on the rise by Dave Molta  Network Computing; Manhasset; Feb 4, 2002   Required HTML Document 2 Jun 2002  Week 9: San Diego's Telecom Valley (Caroline) Title / Author File Format File Type Date Added Clusters and the new economics of competition by Porter, M.E.  Harvard Business Review, November-December 1998  Required PDF Document 3 Jun 2002 Assessing Finland's Wireless Valley: Can the pioneering continue? by Steinbock, D.  Telecommunications Policy, 25: 71-100 (2001).   Required PDF Document Reading 3 Jun 2002 3G by any other name The Economist, Jan 10th 2002   Required Microsoft Word Reading 3 Jun 2002 The Tortoise and the Hare The Economist, Mar 14th 2002   Required Microsoft Word 3 Jun 2002