Transforming Everything?
Evaluating Broadband's Impacts Across Policy Areas
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 April 2022
- ISBN 9780190082888
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 156x239x15 mm
- Weight 381 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 figures 176
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Transforming Everything? describes broadband as a social technology and offers policymakers the necessary evidence to assess whether broadband programs are truly empowering the communities they serve.
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Broadband, or high-speed internet, has been called the most important infrastructure challenge of the century. It has the potential to connect remote communities, streamline health care services, and support innovation across education, economics, and numerous other fields. Given the growing and widespread investments in broadband, how can citizens and policymakers determine whether the promise of broadband is being fulfilled?
Transforming Everything? offers a comprehensive guide to the complexities and possibilities of broadband as a social technology. It addresses challenges for evaluating broadband initiatives across diverse contexts and proposes guidance and methods for evaluation for policymakers and researchers. Contributors draw on pioneering research in program evaluation and information technology to explore broadband applications in health, education, and civic engagement. They also address key measurement and evaluation challenges in the field today, including issues in privacy and security and inadequate research methods for target populations. Collectively, the chapters in this volume raise important questions for improving research and evaluation in broadband use and producing actionable evidence in a highly dynamic environment.
Transforming Everything? prepares readers with a critical understanding of broadband technology and the necessary evidence to assess whether broadband programs and policy are truly empowering the communities they serve.
As the world invests in new broadband initiatives to meet unmet needs and foster innovation, this book demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary evaluation tools for effective policy making. An essential read for anyone interested in a comprehensive policy approach accounting for diversity in broadband connectivity, adoption, and use.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
Introduction: Broadband as Experimentation and Policy Learning
Karen Mossberger, Eric W. Welch, and Yonghong Wu
PART I Evaluation In the Context of Broadband
1. The Changing Context for Broadband Evaluation
William Lehr
PART II Diverse Methods
2. Measuring Broadband and Its Impacts
John B. Horrigan
3. Using Random Experiments to Measure the Impact of Computers, the Internet, and Other Forms of Technology on Educational Outcomes
Robert Fairlie
4. Broadband Adoption and Ethnographic Approaches
Jessica Crowell
5. Addressing Spatial Inequality in Broadband Use and Community- Level Outcomes
Caroline J. Tolbert, Karen Mossberger, Natasha Gaydos, and Mattia Caldarulo
PART III Asking the Right Questions
6. Broadband for Telemedicine and Health Services
Sharon Strover
7. Opportunities and Challenges in Advancing Broadband- Enabled Government Services
Alfred T. Ho
8. 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
