Transforming everything? : evaluating broadband's impacts across policy areas

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Transforming everything? : evaluating broadband's impacts across policy areas

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evaluating broadband's impacts across policy areas

Statement of responsibility

Karen Mossberger, Eric W. Welch, and Yonghong Wu

Contributor

• Mossberger, Karen
• Welch, Eric W
• Wu, Yonghong, (Professor of public administration)

Subject

• Broadband communication systems -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Broadband communication systems -- Social aspects -- United States
• Telecommunication policy -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"Broadband internet use is often heralded for its transformative potential in a broad range of policy areas, but there is scarce evidence on whether this is so, and how it can be utilized most effectively by organizations and communities. While the attribution of change to programmatic efforts is a familiar challenge in evaluation research, broadband technologies present some particular issues for evaluation: the "black box" problem of understanding user behavior; the complexity of theorizing about the interaction between technology and policy-specific processes; and understanding change over time. How can we better address both the challenges and the opportunities for evaluating broadband initiatives? This chapter introduces the plan of the volume in the context of answering these questions"--

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non fiction

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• dictionaries
• bibliography