{"id":143,"date":"2015-02-12T18:53:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/?p=143"},"modified":"2015-02-12T18:53:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:53:39","slug":"net-neutrality-in-the-networked-public-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/2015\/02\/12\/net-neutrality-in-the-networked-public-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality in the Networked Public Sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I published a <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/publications\/2015\/score_another_one_for_the_internet\">new paper<\/a> on the net neutrality debate in the public sphere with my co-authors Rob Faris, Bruce Etling, Dalia Othman, and Yochai Benkler.  In this paper, we use the Media Cloud Controversy Mapper to identify over 16,000 stories about net neutrality from 2013-12-01 to 2014-11-17.  We use that data to perform a variety of types of analysis to explore the networks of language and influence within the controversy.  <\/p>\n<p>Our core finding is that the networked public sphere played a key role in changing FCC policy on net neutrality.  Several key periods of debate during the controversy look a lot like traditional elite agenda setting (court makes a decision reported by national newspapers, FCC insider leaks upcoming ruling to the Wall Street Journal, etc.).  But during the key months before Obama&#8217;s announcement of support for net neutrality, the dominant modes of agenda setting were a viral video, an online comment campaign, and an internet protest by pro-net neutrality activists.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the network maps we drew for individual weeks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/files\/2015\/02\/thumbnail_maps.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/files\/2015\/02\/thumbnail_maps-1024x801.png\" alt=\"thumbnail_maps\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/files\/2015\/02\/thumbnail_maps-1024x801.png 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/files\/2015\/02\/thumbnail_maps-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/files\/2015\/02\/thumbnail_maps.png 1602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I published a new paper on the net neutrality debate in the public sphere with my co-authors Rob Faris, Bruce Etling, Dalia Othman, and Yochai Benkler. In this paper, we use the Media Cloud Controversy Mapper to identify over 16,000 stories about net neutrality from 2013-12-01 to 2014-11-17. We use that data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}