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Telecom Tensions (McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2019) Today’s internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom Tensions Mike Zajko considers the tensions inherent to this role between private profits and the public good, competition and cooperation, neutrality and discrimination, surveillance and security and asks what consequences arise from them.<\/p>\n Many understand the internet as a technology that cuts out traditional gatekeepers, but as the importance of internet access has grown, the intermediaries connecting us to it have come to play an increasingly vital role in our lives. Zajko shows how the individuals and organizations that keep these networks running must satisfy a growing number of public policy objectives and contradictory expectations. Analyzing conflicts in Canadian policy since the commercialization of the internet in the 1990s, this book unearths the roots of contemporary debates by foregrounding the central role of internet service providers. From downtown data centres to publicly funded rural networks, Telecom Tensions explores the material infrastructure, power relations, and political aspirations at play.<\/p>\n Theoretically informed but grounded in the material realities of people and places, Telecom Tensions is a fresh look at the political economy of telecommunications in Canada, updating conversations about liberalization and public access with contemporary debates over privacy, copyright, network neutrality, and cyber security.<\/p>\n (Description Source: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n Mike Zajko<\/strong> is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He received his BA from the University of Calgary, his MA from the University of Calgary, and his PhD from the University of Alberta. While completing his PhD, Dr. Zajko began teaching at both the University of Alberta and MacEwan University before relocating to the Okanagan in 2018 to accept a position as assistant professor in the\u00a0Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\u2019 Department of History and Sociology. His research focuses primarily on governance, internet policy, security, and social media.<\/p>\n https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycktzcew<\/a><\/p>\n From the Publisher \u2013 McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press<\/a> Paper ISBN: 9780228005896 The\u00a0University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em>\u00a0aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/p>\n Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/p>\n
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