Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Network Nation – Inventing American Telecommunications
So, who would I recommend this book to? Obviously, scholars in the field will find this book incredibly profitable. Given today’s tumultuous politics of telecommunications in North America the book offers advocates, members of the public, and policy makers a concise history of what went on in the preceding two centuries of telecommunications regulation. Continue reading
Released: Literature Review of Deep Packet Inspection
The abstract for my recently completed literature review of deep packet inspection, as well as a link to download the .pdf version of the review. Continue reading
Review: Surveillance or Security?
In Security or Security? The Real Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, Susan Landau focuses on the impacts of integrating surveillance systems into communications networks. Her specific thesis is that integrating surveillance capacities into communications networks does not necessarily or inherently … Continue reading
Review of Telecommunications Policy in Transition
It might be hard to justify the cost of a decade-old communications policy text, but this collection has aged quite well. If network neutrality, peering, copyright, or comparative deployment policies are in your line of interest then this is a wonderful book to add to your collection! Continue reading
