Stiegler - Regulating the Web: network neutrality and the fate of the open Internet

John Nathan Anderson has been researching and writing on media policy and activism for the last two decades. A pirate radio and remix culture practitioner, former broadcast journalist, and refugee from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, he is now an Assistant Professor and Director of Broadcast Journalism in the Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Jeremy Carp recently graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. His prior publications focus on the creation of state-level regulatory systems and the evolution of SinoUnited States relations. In 2013 he will be pursuing a J.D. degree with an emphasis in regulatory law.

Benjamin Cline received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. His past research has dealt primarily with rhetorics of social intervention, especially in the areas of religious communication and new media. He has taught in several different institutions throughout the United States and now serves as Assistant Professor of Speech and Communication at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico. He lives in Silver City with his wife, Jamie, two dogs, and a cat.

Michael Daubs researches the influence of user-generated media on the production, consumption, distribution, and understanding of media. In the past, he has investigated aesthetic remediation, participatory journalism and animation and his recent work examines activist movements, social networking, and inter media agenda setting. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

Brian Dolber is Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at SUNY College at Oneonta. His research interests are at the intersection of media history, media activism and labor. Dolber served as the Entertainment Industries Caucus Congressional fellow in the office of Rep. Diane Watson (DCA), where he worked on net neutrality legislation and other media policy issues. His dissertation is the winner of the 2012 American Journalism Historians Association Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize.

Dan Faltesek has worked in the legacy media, new media, and is Assistant Professor of Social Media at Oregon State University.

Michael Felczak is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication at Si- University (Vancouver, Canada) whose research interests span culture, communication, and technology. He has recently published and presented work on the politics of network neutrality, social diversity and technology, pedagogy and wikis, communication rights and policy, scholarly communication, and the practices of free/open source software.

Mark Grabowski is Assistant Professor at Adelphi University in Long Island, where he teaches media law and Web journalism. Previously, he was a column-ist for AOL News and a reporter for the Providence Journal and Arizona Republic . He holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law. His most recent scholarly work, Are Technical Difficulties at the Supreme Court Causing a Disregard of Duty? was published in 2012 in the Journal of Law, Technology and Internet and republished in The Romanian Judges Forum Review .

Pallavi Gunigani is currently a Legal Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware. She holds a B.A. in English and economics from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law and a PG.D. in European Union competition law from Kings College London. She was an early adopter of blogging and a laggard for Facebook and Twitter.

Danny Kimball is a PhD candidate in the Media and Cultural Studies program in the Communication Arts department at the University of WisconsinMadison. He is writing a dissertation on the role of network neutrality policies and open Internet infrastructures in shaping the potential for a more inclusive and participatory public sphere. He has presented his work at international communications and media studies conferences and has served as coordinating editor for The Velvet Light Trap .

Isabella Kulkarni is a B.A. student at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Patrick Schmidt is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of Legal Studies at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds a B.A. from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University. He has published articles in a variety of journals, including Election Law Journal . Judicature, Justice System Journal . Law and History Review , and Political Research Quarterly , and his the author of Lawyers and Regulation: The Politics of the Administrative Process (2005), Human Rights Brought Home: Socio-Legal Perspectives on Human Rights in the National Context (2004), and Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices (2009), the latter two in collaboration with Simon Halliday.

Tina Sikka is a Lecturer in Communication Studies at Fraser International College, housed within Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Since completing a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr. Sikka has been working on a number of projects involving the application of a critical theory of technology approach to the study of new media and the environment. She is currently writing a book for Springer Press on geoengineering and climate change.

Dan Sprumont is a Project Manager at BarkleyREI, a full-service interactive web marketing agency specializing in higher education and tourism. Sprumont graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2010 with a bachelors in Communications Media and in 2011 with a masters in Adult Education and Communication Technology. Sprumont currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Zack Stiegler is Assistant Professor of Communications Media at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching focus on communication law and policy, media history and theory, and critical approaches to popular culture. His research has appeared in the Journal of Communications Media Studies . Sociology Study, the Journal of Popular Music Studies . Javnost: The Public , and the Journal of Radio and Audio Media .

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