Looks awesome @ppopiel.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Important new research into the contradictions of US broadband policy by two leading political economists.

🚨 New article out, great colab w/ @davidberman.bsky.social, assessing the primary U.S. response to the digital divide: the corporate subsidy. Using mixed methods, we show how networked "digital equity" reinforces network monopoly. @miccenter.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2BPFG...

I agree with one caveat: once you go down the strategic route, it is 100% in bounds for your interlocutors to be suspicious of your motives when you are trying to tell the truth. This is becoming a problem for the abundance program I think.

New piece from me and @davidberman.bsky.social, previewing our research on the rollout, implementation, and experience of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) before and after its end www.benton.org/blog/lived-b...

the same administration screaming at universities about “merit” is also elevating unqualified hacks to critical positions, which makes you wonder about what they mean by “merit”

If you won't believe me, here's Paul musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...

Thrilled that my article “On Optimization: Cultural Labor in Platform Capitalism” has just been published in New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New piece out with @davidberman.bsky.social giving a preview of our study of post-pandemic efforts to address the digital divide in Philadelphia, especially Comcast's central role in it www.benton.org/content/digi...

So proud of the big things happening at our Pennsylvania Broadband Research (PBR) Institute! @christopherali.bsky.social @saschameinrath.bsky.social @davidberman.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social @abbysimmerman.bsky.social +Aaron Hyzen @mic-center.bsky.social @bellisariograded.bsky.social