The 2015 FCC decision on Net Neutrality and the debate over ICANN reform raise the question about the future structure of the Internet. The paper concludes that the centrifugalism due to fundamental economics and national priorities will transform the current system into a loose and partly...

Conventional wisdom assigns primacy to content production, with distribution as the commodity adjunct. But is this perspective correct? The paper looks both analytically and empirically at this question, and concludes a. that distribution is the dominant factor; and b. that the trends in both...

We are in the midst of the emergence of a new video media system, based on large-scale and global cloud providers. This system challenges traditional regulatory policy in the media field. The paper analyzes the emerging new policy issues and the persistence of several old issues. This will lead...

The Internet is generally held to be a force for job growth. However, this view is empirically incorrect in the short term. The paper will show negative impacts, with the Internet a force of inequality. This leads to an analysis of how to deal with the losers in the information economy, and how...