Moyers & Company. Who's Widening America's Digital Divide?
Description
America has a wide digital divide: high-speed Internet access is available only to those who can afford it, at prices much higher and speeds much slower in the U.S. than they are around the world. But that doesn't have to be the case, says Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology, and innovation and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. In this edition of Moyers & Company, Crawford joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public interest. As a result, says Crawford, all of us are at the mercy of the biggest business monopoly since Standard Oil in the first Gilded Age a hundred years ago.
Runtime
31 min
Subjects
- Telecommunication (105)
- Digital divide (7)
- Political planning (192)
- Public policy (69)
- Policy sciences (61)
- Computer networks (77)
- Educational technology (286)
- Internet (163)
- Business law (30)
- Instructional systems (72)
- Computer-assisted instruction (27)
- Digital media (308)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2013
Database
Films on Demand
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