The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) urges the Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules preserving open and nondiscriminatory access to the internet.
The debate about network neutrality is complex and contentious, but we wish to address a specific myth advanced by network neutrality opponents: that this regulation would stifle innovation and create disincentives for investment in next-generation broadband networks.
The AEJMC rejects this claim.
The most important internet innovations have not come from network providers, but from creative outsiders who built their inventions on top of a neutral network. Requiring network neutrality is vital to preserve competition and investment in internet content, services, and applications.
The FCC should codify the internet openness principles that already guide the agency, and Congress and the courts should support this move. The rules would protect both consumers and innovators of content, services, and applications from unfair discrimination by internet service providers. Perhaps most importantly, these rules would help preserve and develop the internet as a key tool for communication that serves our democracy.
This statement was issued by the President of AEJMC and through the President’s Advisory Council.
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. The Association’s mission is to advance education, foster scholarly research, cultivate better professional practice and promote the free flow of communication.
This is a great explanation of media convergence from CBS Sunday Morning.
I recently stumbled upon a great resource from Texas Tech University professor Brian Brown. It is a web page that summarizes a few of the predominant theories in Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Group, Organizational, and Mass Communication. You can access the web page by clicking here.
The theories section of the website is still a little bare right now. I have been working to get as many links to relevant communication theories posted, but as you can imagine this is a significant task. If you have any links or have written a summary of a major communication theory, please email it to admin@communication-theory.com. You will be credited as the source for any summaries that you send. Thank you for your help.
This is a very extensive collection of online resources for communication studies. What it lacks in organization it well makes up for in relevance. Access it by clicking here.
This is a well produced video that uses Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory to analyze the effects of video game violence.
Here is a great resource put together by Bob Craig, an associate professor in the Department of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder. It provides a good introduction to the major theorists, theories, and fields in communication research. You can access this website by clicking here.
The International Assocation for Media and Communication Research has put together a great collection of academic journals that are completely free to access. These could be very useful if you’re having trouble finding an article through your library’s collection. Also, since some of these are not based in the U.S., they may give different perspectives in your research. You can access this list by clicking here.