Hilliard, Robert L. (author) and Keith, Michael C. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24025
Notes:
242 pages., Authors examine how "the short-term financial gains from consolidation in radio have resulted in the demise of local radio services to individual communities, concomitantly resulting in the not-so-long-term possible demise of radio itself."
13 pages., via online journal., Drawing on the increasing body of literature on policy stakeholders and the ever-growing acknowledgement that communication policy is crafted by more than just parliamentarians and formal communication regulators this paper examines the role that another set of regulators plays in communication policy: agriculture regulators. Based on a study of the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS), this paper explores alternative agents of communication policy. More specifically, through document analysis we examine the way in which the Rural Utilities Service has shaped rural broadband policy in the United States over the last three decades. The implications for this research are wide, as it brings another policy actor into the policy making melee, and pushes communication policy scholars to consider the role that non-traditional communication regulators play in the communication policy making process.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25732
Notes:
Via MAP web site. 1 page., "Given the tremendous need for access to spectrum throughout America - in rural, suburban, and urban environments - it is critical that the Commission foreclose use of white spaces only where engineering tests prove there is a genuine risk of harmful interference."
