| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps, charts |
| Contents |
Introduction: Broadband as experimentation and policy learning / Karen Mossberger, Eric W. Welch, and Yonghong Wu -- The changing context for broadband evaluation / William Lehr -- Measuring broadband and its impacts / John B. Horrigan -- Using random experiments to measure the impact of computers, the internet, and other forms of technology on educational outcomes / Robert Fairlie -- Broadband adoption and ethnographic approaches / Jessica Crowell -- Addressing spatial inequality in broadband use and community-level outcomes / Caroline J. Tolbert, Karen Mossberger, Natasha Gaydos, and Mattia Caldarulo Sharon Strover -- Opportunities and challenges in advancing broadband-enabled government services / Alfred T. Ho -- Digital media's impact on civic engagement : challenges and opportunities for evaluation research on broadband technologies, young people, and citizen engagement / Michael A. Xenos -- Conclusion: Evaluation for the broadband future / Eric W. Welch |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 23, 2022) |
| Subject |
Telecommunication policy -- United States
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Broadband communication systems -- Social aspects -- United States
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Broadband communication systems -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Broadband communication systems -- Law and legislation
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Telecommunication policy
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mossberger, Karen, editor.
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Welch, Eric W., editor.
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Wu, Yonghong (Professor of public administration), editor.
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| LC no. |
2021029419 |
| ISBN |
0190082909 |
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9780190082901 |
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9780190082918 |
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0190082917 |
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