In the book, you describe how this would kind of break from some previous ways of regulating tele communications in the united states. The shift can seem quite subtle, in part because the administration, especially in 92, 90 threes, it goes back and forth in language. But what you see overtime is that the executive branch, in particular, moves telle communications away from a goal of universal service to something like universal access. This was then written into law, most notably in 19 96 with the reform of the 19 34 teler communications act.
Paris Marx is joined by Dan Greene to discuss how the Clinton administration reframed poverty through the lens of the internet and how that transformed the missions of key institutions like libraries and schools.
Dan Greene is an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. He is the author of “The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.” Follow Dan on Twitter at @Green_DM.
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