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Ellen Goodman’s report on the FCC’s Broadband Plan

Posted by Patricia Aufderheide on Mar 19, 2010

We’re proud to bring you the first report from Center for Social Media Fellow Ellen Goodman, who is Professor at Rutgers School of Law and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the FCC working part time on the FCC’s Future of Media Project:

This week, the FCC released its epic National Broadband Plan. The Plan largely deals with telecommunications infrastructure issues – how can we get more ubiquitous and faster broadband. Although the Plan is very focused on the bottom line of how ubiquitous broadband can support social and democratic flourishing, it actually
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