Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0010
Jenna Kammer
This exploratory study investigated the experiences of students using school-issued devices to access information for school and lifelong learning. 1:1 programs have evolved to enable learning anywhere, allowing students to complete coursework both inside and outside school while taking their school-issued devices with them. This qualitative study suggests that school-issued devices have many restrictions that impact access to information, free-agent or instructor-led learning, and information autonomy, identifying a need for public information and learning agencies, such as libraries and schools, to address these constraints.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0009
Hernan Galperin, Heonuk Ha
Limited participation in broadband subsidy programs is a growing concern among policymakers and a puzzle for researchers. This study examines participation in Lifeline and the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) across US counties. We propose that local attitudes toward welfare represent an important factor in the take-up of broadband subsidies. To test this hypothesis, we model program participation on multiple covariates using two different measurements that approximate local attitudes toward welfare. The findings indicate that program participation is inversely related to anti-welfare attitudes at the county level. We discuss theoretical contributions and implications for program design.
{"title":"Welfare Stigma and the Take-Up of Consumer Broadband Subsidies","authors":"Hernan Galperin, Heonuk Ha","doi":"10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Limited participation in broadband subsidy programs is a growing concern among policymakers and a puzzle for researchers. This study examines participation in Lifeline and the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) across US counties. We propose that local attitudes toward welfare represent an important factor in the take-up of broadband subsidies. To test this hypothesis, we model program participation on multiple covariates using two different measurements that approximate local attitudes toward welfare. The findings indicate that program participation is inversely related to anti-welfare attitudes at the county level. We discuss theoretical contributions and implications for program design.","PeriodicalId":55617,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141716232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0012
Y. Wu, Xukang Wang
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI), exemplified by models like ChatGPT, presents both opportunities and challenges. As these technologies become increasingly integrated into various aspects of society, the need for a harmonized legal framework to address the associated risks becomes crucial. This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the disruptive impact of generative AI, the legal risks of AI-generated content, and the governance strategies needed to strike a balance between innovation and regulation. Employing a three-pronged methodology—literature review, doctrinal legal analysis, and case study integration—the study examines the current legal landscape; synthesizes scholarly works on the technological, ethical, and socioeconomic implications of generative AI; and illustrates practical challenges through real-world case studies. The article assesses the strengths and limitations of US governance strategies for AI and proposes a harmonized legal framework emphasizing international collaboration, proactive legislation, and the establishment of a dedicated regulatory body. By engaging diverse stakeholders and identifying critical gaps in current research, the study contributes to the development of a legal framework that upholds ethical principles, protects individual rights, and fosters responsible innovation in the age of generative AI.
{"title":"Balancing Innovation and Regulation in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence","authors":"Y. Wu, Xukang Wang","doi":"10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI), exemplified by models like ChatGPT, presents both opportunities and challenges. As these technologies become increasingly integrated into various aspects of society, the need for a harmonized legal framework to address the associated risks becomes crucial. This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the disruptive impact of generative AI, the legal risks of AI-generated content, and the governance strategies needed to strike a balance between innovation and regulation. Employing a three-pronged methodology—literature review, doctrinal legal analysis, and case study integration—the study examines the current legal landscape; synthesizes scholarly works on the technological, ethical, and socioeconomic implications of generative AI; and illustrates practical challenges through real-world case studies. The article assesses the strengths and limitations of US governance strategies for AI and proposes a harmonized legal framework emphasizing international collaboration, proactive legislation, and the establishment of a dedicated regulatory body. By engaging diverse stakeholders and identifying critical gaps in current research, the study contributes to the development of a legal framework that upholds ethical principles, protects individual rights, and fosters responsible innovation in the age of generative AI.","PeriodicalId":55617,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141691183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0008
Billie Ventimiglia, Dennis J. Smith, Marcia Mardis
High-speed broadband internet is a necessary utility. However, internet service providers are often unwilling to take on the costs of serving rural areas. Federal investments to expand rural broadband have gone underutilized due to insufficient community awareness and planning practices. We explore university–community broadband planning in two rural Florida counties to demonstrate where partnership and local efforts have enabled constructive discussions toward better connectivity. We highlight similarities and differences that inform how the university and residents leveraged community capital, and we explore the planning practices employed in each case. We conclude with recommendations for community-based partnerships for broadband planning in rural communities.
{"title":"Planning for Rural Broadband","authors":"Billie Ventimiglia, Dennis J. Smith, Marcia Mardis","doi":"10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 High-speed broadband internet is a necessary utility. However, internet service providers are often unwilling to take on the costs of serving rural areas. Federal investments to expand rural broadband have gone underutilized due to insufficient community awareness and planning practices. We explore university–community broadband planning in two rural Florida counties to demonstrate where partnership and local efforts have enabled constructive discussions toward better connectivity. We highlight similarities and differences that inform how the university and residents leveraged community capital, and we explore the planning practices employed in each case. We conclude with recommendations for community-based partnerships for broadband planning in rural communities.","PeriodicalId":55617,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141698449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0007
Sharon Strover, Whitney Nelson, Sheila Lalwani
To explore the expanding role of libraries in providing internet access and promoting digital literacy, this article examines ten libraries in one state that developed Digital Navigator programs. Representing a mix of small and rural as well as metropolitan and large libraries, the libraries’ efforts offer a different philosophy in dealing with digital divide factors. This research investigates how libraries launched Digital Navigator programs, the processes behind developing them, and how they reflect notions of information access. This investigation analyzes the circumstances and controversies more broadly, which can shape digital information strategies in public libraries.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0003
Anja Noster
This article explores the potential of leveraging insights from innovation policy studies to enhance the analysis of journalism support, particularly innovation policies for journalism. It adopts a conceptual approach, applying the policy mix concept to media systems literature, yielding three benefits. First, it offers a holistic framework for researchers to consider different building blocks of policymaking supporting journalism innovation. Second, it broadens the conceptualization of journalism support beyond financial assistance. Finally, it develops recommendations for a future research agenda, encouraging both scholarly work and practical solutions for a robust journalism support infrastructure in the digital age.
{"title":"Ending the Subsidies Ice Age","authors":"Anja Noster","doi":"10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the potential of leveraging insights from innovation policy studies to enhance the analysis of journalism support, particularly innovation policies for journalism. It adopts a conceptual approach, applying the policy mix concept to media systems literature, yielding three benefits. First, it offers a holistic framework for researchers to consider different building blocks of policymaking supporting journalism innovation. Second, it broadens the conceptualization of journalism support beyond financial assistance. Finally, it develops recommendations for a future research agenda, encouraging both scholarly work and practical solutions for a robust journalism support infrastructure in the digital age.","PeriodicalId":55617,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141035780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0004
Bagdagul Zhaparalina, K. Sheryazdanova, G. Kakenova, Saule Aliyeva
This article examines how information cooperation influences Kazakhstan’s foreign policy. Through systematic analysis and comparison methods, this article identifies key trends and differences in information cooperation among Central Asian countries. Strengthening regional contacts and Kazakhstan’s engagement in international organizations emerge as pivotal outcomes of this interaction. Diplomatic services, regional initiatives, media projects, and cybercrime counteraction play essential roles in creating a modern information landscape in Kazakhstan. This research provides a foundation for future studies on information cooperation in Central Asia and its broader international implications.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0005
Rohan Grover, Kyooeun Jang, Li Wen Su
What values and conceptualizations of data are being advanced through new data protection regulations in Asia? This article answers this question with a comparative analysis of data protection regulations in China, India, and South Korea. The article identifies four key dimensions of divergence: conceptualizations of personal and sensitive information, cross-border data transfer restrictions, state exceptions, and considerations for platforms. This leads to three conclusions: local notions of “privacy” are animated by complex domestic priorities and geopolitics, data protection regulations contribute to platform governance, and local exceptions to data protection regulations reveal diverse political strategies to manage citizen-state relations.
{"title":"Beyond Digital Protection(ism)","authors":"Rohan Grover, Kyooeun Jang, Li Wen Su","doi":"10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.14.2024.0005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 What values and conceptualizations of data are being advanced through new data protection regulations in Asia? This article answers this question with a comparative analysis of data protection regulations in China, India, and South Korea. The article identifies four key dimensions of divergence: conceptualizations of personal and sensitive information, cross-border data transfer restrictions, state exceptions, and considerations for platforms. This leads to three conclusions: local notions of “privacy” are animated by complex domestic priorities and geopolitics, data protection regulations contribute to platform governance, and local exceptions to data protection regulations reveal diverse political strategies to manage citizen-state relations.","PeriodicalId":55617,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141043344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.13.2023.0013
Christopher Ali
{"title":"Universal Access and Its Asymmetries: The Untold Story of the Last 200 Years","authors":"Christopher Ali","doi":"10.5325/jinfopoli.13.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.13.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55617,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138961337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.13.2023.0014
Lee Shaker, Antoine Haywood
As traditional local media decline, how might state and local governments provide support for local information infrastructure? We offer a proposal for states (or communities) to tax digital entertainment and then leverage existing community media centers (CMCs) to facilitate the distribution of the proceeds to local media outlets. Compared to other public subsidy plans, this approach is viable nationwide without federal action and offers several advantages that could lead to more immediate and durable support for local information infrastructure. To contextualize our proposal, we model both the possible revenue generation and distribution of funding that would result from its implementation.
{"title":"Using a Digital Entertainment Tax to Strengthen Local Information Infrastructure in The United States: A Conceptual Exploration","authors":"Lee Shaker, Antoine Haywood","doi":"10.5325/jinfopoli.13.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.13.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As traditional local media decline, how might state and local governments provide support for local information infrastructure? We offer a proposal for states (or communities) to tax digital entertainment and then leverage existing community media centers (CMCs) to facilitate the distribution of the proceeds to local media outlets. Compared to other public subsidy plans, this approach is viable nationwide without federal action and offers several advantages that could lead to more immediate and durable support for local information infrastructure. To contextualize our proposal, we model both the possible revenue generation and distribution of funding that would result from its implementation.","PeriodicalId":55617,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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