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Mission
The James and Mary Quello Center seeks to conduct high-quality research that will stimulate and inform debate on media, communication and information policy for our digital age.
Continuity of a Pioneering Center:• Arguably the First Endowed Center of its Kind (1998)• ‘Center for Telecommunication Management and Law’• Founding Director, Prof Steve Wildman (1999-2014),
FCC Chief Economist (2013)
Maintaining Key Strategic Advantages: • FCC Commissioner James H. Quello’s Legacy (24 yrs)• Independence of Endowment via 200 Donors ($5M)• Exceptionally Strong Advisory Board• Ties to Department and College of ComArts & Sciences
Evolving Directions, Topics and Team• New Internet and Digital Age Focus• Even More Multi- and Inter-disciplinary• New Director, Bill Dutton, 2014• New Researchers (Reisdorf, Shapiro &
Yankelevich, 2015)• Additions to Advisory Board• Strategic Use of Internet and Social Media
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Research TeamCentral Core of Researchers• Bill Dutton, Internet Studies, Politics & Policy• Bianca Reisdorf, Sociologist, Digital Inequalities• Mitch Shapiro, Communication Strategy• Aleksandr Yankelevich, Economist, Competition & Policy
MSU Associates and Faculty, including:• Johannes Bauer, Economist, Media & Information• Adam Candeub, Center for IP and Communication Law• Thomas Jeitschko, Economics Department• Tongtong Li, Electrical Engineering • R. V. Rikard, Trifecta, Media & Information
Colleagues Across US and Worldwide
Media and Information Policy IssuesProblems (Privacy,
Freedom of Expression, Inequalities)
Political-Social-Institutional Contexts (Development, Cities,
Households, Gov’t)
Policies (Net Neutrality,
Communication Act, Internet Governance)
Innovations (IoTs, Wearables)
Illustrative Research at the Quello Center
Innovation-led• The Future of Mobile• Wireless and Last Mile Access
Context-driven• ICT4Detroit and Digital Inequalities in Michigan• WKAR Post Spectrum Auction
Policy-based• Net Neutrality• Specialized Services & Competition
Problem-based• The Rise of Internet Policy and the Fifth Estate• Multi-Stakeholder v Multi-Lateral Governance of the Internet
Innovative Approaches, including:Theoretical Perspectives:• The Fifth Estate Conception of Power Shifts• New Institutionalism Perspectives on Policy Processes• Zooming in on Inequalities (Urban (Detroit), Rural, Prisons)
Empirically Anchored Approaches:• Multimodal Survey Designs for Detroit• National Broadband Availability Dataset• Case Study & Quasi-Experimental Insights on Network
Neutrality • Going ‘Local’ such as Michigan Divides, Detroit & WKAR
MSU and WKAR 2016
FCC Spectrum Auction
MSU Auction WKAR TV ($206M)
MSU Keeps Spectrum, Partners with Detroit Public Broadcasting, Creates Opportunities for Innovative Research
Illustrative Reports and PublicationsBauer, J. M. and Dutton, W. H. (2015), ‘The New Cyber Security Agenda’, for World Bank Development Report.
Dutton, W.H. and Graham, M. (2014), Society and the Internet (Oxford University Press).
Dutton, W. H. (2015), ‘Multistakeholder Governance?’, for World Bank Development Report
Reisdorf, B. C., & Groselj, D. (2015). ‘Internet (non-) Use Types and Motivational Access: Implications for Digital Inequalities Research’, New Media & Society, Online First.
Reisdorf, B. C., & Jewkes, Y. (2016). ‘(B)Locked Sites: Cases of Internet Use in Three British Prisons’, Information, Communication & Society, 1-16.
UNESCO (2015), Keystones to Foster Inclusive Knowledge Societies. Paris: UNESCO.
Internet and Social Media Outreach
Quello Blog http://quello.msu.edu
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/QuelloCenter/
Twitter @QuelloCenter
Paper Series at SSRN, Publications, and Videos at Vimeo
News Via Constant Contact
Quello Lectures, Seminars, and Speaking Engagements