The Future of Internet Policy

Peter Decherney is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and the author of Hollywood’s Copyright Wars (2012). Victor Pickard is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and the author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy (2014).

Introduction: Internet Policy Crises Part I: The Pre-History of Internet Policy 1. The Air Belongs to the People 2. Infrastructure in the Air Part II: The Future of Internet Policy 3. Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible: Three Radically Democratic Internet Policies 4. Hyper-power and Private Monopoly: The Unholy Marriage of (Neo)corporatism and the Imperial Surveillance State 5. The Return of Ideology and the Future of Chinese Internet Policy 6. The US Digital Divide: A Call for a New Philosophy 7. Crypto War II 8. Persistent Pursuit of Personal Information: A Historical Perspective on Digital Advertising Strategies 9. The Media Policy Tower of Babble: A Case for ‘‘Policy Literacy Pedagogy’’ 10. Utopian Games 11. Fair Use Goes Global 12. The Great Evasion: Confronting Market Failure in American Media Policy 13. The Death and Life of a Great American Agency 14. "What is wrong cannot be made right" – Why has media reform been sidelined in the debate over "social justice" in Israel?