The James and Mary Quello CenterDepartment of

Media & InformationMichigan State University

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

@QuelloCenter

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

Envisioning the Quello Center’s Future

Stimulate & Inform Local

& Global Debates

Increase Scale of High-Quality,

Grant-Supported Research

Local-Global Research

Addressing Global Issues

Collaborative Hub for

Communication Policy Research

Question Taken-for-Granted

Assumptions