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Title

Broadband: policy, innovation, use

Author(s)

Given, Jock;  Watkins, Jerry

Abstract

This issue of Communication, Politics & Culture is mainly about the relationship between what people might do with better broadband and the government policies designed to get it to them. It is less about the headlines the NBN has attracted for the past year, and more about smaller stories—getting infrastructure to distant, hard-to-serve communities that will probably never get fibre access networks; getting people interested in using better broadband; anticipating problems that might arise and proposing solutions; speculating about alternate futures and their relationship to communications histories. There’s a particular focus on broadband in non-metropolitan communities—in Canada, Australia’s Central Desert, the North Queensland city of Townsville and the island state, Tasmania—and on the kinds of services that have already migrated so sweepingly to online delivery (banking) or that are thought likely to be such transforming parts of the NBN world (health and education).

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Communication, Politics and Culture, Vol. 43, no. 1 (2010), pp. 1-6

Publication year

2010

FOR Code(s)

1608 Sociology;  2001 Communication and Media Studies;  2002 Cultural Studies

Keyword(s)

Broadband network;  Communications technologies;  Editorial;  Media policy

Publisher

School of Media and Communication, RMIT University

ISSN

0038-4526

Publisher URL

http://www.rmit.edu.au/mediacommunication/cpc

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 The authors. The accepted manuscript of the paper is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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