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The James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law at Michigan State University

The James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law at Michigan State University, dedicated to original research on current issues of information and communication management, law and policy! The Quello Center is located in the Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media department of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

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• Jim Quello Eulogies

  2010-06-26T12:39:13-05:00
  

  A memorial service was held at Arlington National Cemetery on June 22, 2010 to commemorate the life of Jim Quello.  Here you will find the remarks at the service by Richard Wiley, Brian Fontes, and Dick Quello.  Mr. Wiley, a former chair of the FCC, is managing partner of Wiley Rein, where Jim worked as a consultant after he left the Commission.  Mr. Fontes is CEO of the National Emergency Number Association and once served as Jim Quello’s chief of staff at the FCC.  Both are long-time friends of Jim.  Dick Quello is Jim Quello’s son.

  Eulogy by Richard Wiley

  Eulogy by Brian Fontes

  Eulogy by Dick Quello

• April 30, 2010: Lecture by Jonathan Obar, Pennsylvania State University

  2010-04-26T15:47:35-05:00
  

  “Evaluating FCC Policy Processes and Policy Outcomes”

  

  Jonathan Obar
  Ph.D. Candidate
  Mass Communications, College of Communications
  The Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, PA

  Jonathan Obar is an instructor and doctoral candidate in the College of Communications at Penn State University.  His research has addressed the relationship between media policy, media institutions and satisfaction of the public interest in both the United States and Canada. His work has been published in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Communication Law & Policy, Journalism Studies and Harvard’s Program on Information Resources Policy, and has been cited in correspondence with the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.

  Sponsored by Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law and the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University.

  For further information, please contact Steve Wildman at swildman@msu.edu or 517.432.8004, or Joy Mulvaney at the Quello Center at 517.432.8001, mulvaney@msu.edu.

• April 15, 2010: Lecture by Marcel Machill, University of Leipzig, Germany

  2010-04-02T01:17:07-05:00
  

  “The Power of Search Engines: How Cyberspace Influences Journalists’ Daily Work Routines”

  Professor Marcel Machill
  Chair, Journalism & International Media Systems
  University of Leipzig, Germany

  Prof. Dr. Marcel Machill holds the Chair of Journalism II and is a tenured professor of journalism and international media systems at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and has academic degrees from three countries.  From 1997 to 1999 Dr. Machill was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard University where he earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.  He studied journalism and psychology in both Paris, France, and Dortmund, Germany.  He holds an MA (1993) from the French journalism institute Centre des Formation des Journalistes (CFJ), and a diploma from the University of Dortmund.  In 1997 he graduated with a PhD from the chair of media policy and media economy.
   
  In his research, Dr. Machill strives to combine research results from journalism/media science and computer science. His current focus is on digital gatekeepers, Internet governance, media policy & law, international journalism and online journalism. His international work includes research and teaching at the Universities of Zurich and St. Gallen (Switzerland) and several universities in Germany.
  

  Sponsored by Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law. For further information, please contact Steve Wildman at swildman@msu.edu or 517.432.8004, or Joy Mulvaney at the Quello Center at 517.432.8001, mulvaney@msu.edu.

• March 24, 2010: Lecture by Benjamin Cramer, Pennsylvania State University

  2010-03-19T18:48:16-05:00
  

  “Telecommunications Policy and Environmental Protection”

  Benjamin Cramer, Ph.D.
  Pennsylvania State University
  College of Communications
  State College, PA

  Benjamin W. Cramer was previously Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Department of Legal Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He earned his doctorate at Pennsylvania State University, where he taught a senior-level course in mass media law and an introductory class on media literacy and democratic theory, and worked as a researcher for the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment. His doctoral dissertation dealt with government transparency and environmental law in the USA, while he has also completed research in intellectual property law and political communications. He has published three peer-reviewed law journal articles on government transparency and telecommunications policy, and has presented his research at ten academic conferences.

  Sponsored by Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law and Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University

  For further information, please contact Steve Wildman at swildman@msu.edu or 517.432.8004, or Joy Mulvaney at the Quello Center at 517.432.8001, mulvaney@msu.edu.

• February 18, 2010: Lecture by Lian Jian, University of Michigan

  2010-02-12T14:08:29-05:00
  

  

  “I Scratched Yours:  The Prevalence of Reciprocation in Feedback Provision on eBay”

  Lian Jian
  Ph.D. Candidate
  School of Information
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  Lian Jian is an information economist, with a strong background in electrical engineering.  She earned a Master’s degree at Virginia Tech in Science and Technology Policy, and is now completing her Ph.D. in Information at the University of Michigan. She studies the strategic behavior of individuals in online information aggregation systems, using multiple different research methods.  Examples of her applied research include a game-theoretic model of generalized reciprocity in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, lab experiments on manipulation by bidders in prediction markets, an econometric study of choice of feedback provision strategy by users on eBay, and a data-driven study of why people stop contributing to Wikipedia.

  Sponsored by Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law and Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University.

  For further information, please contact Steve Wildman at swildman@msu.edu or 517.432.8004, or Joy Mulvaney at the Quello Center at 517.432.8001, mulvaney@msu.edu.

• Farewell to our Friend, Namesake and Inspiration: James Quello 1914-2010

  2010-01-25T19:12:22-05:00
  

  

  MSU alum James H. Quello, former commissioner and acting chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, passed away on Jan. 24 at the age of 95 in Alexandria, VA. The Quello Center was founded to honor his life and legacy of public service.

  For more information on Jim Quello’s life and legacy, please click this link.

  To see a collection of photos Jim Quello at various events and places, please click this link.

• November 11, 2009: Rick Ducey, Chief Strategy Officer, BIA/Kelsey Advisory Services

  2009-10-15T13:51:23-05:00
  

  Rick Ducey will visit the department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media to speak to undergraduate classes and PhD students.

  Rick Ducey is the Chief Strategy Officer for BIA Advisory Services. Rick assists clients with their business planning and sales models, strategic research and market assessment, designing and implementing IT strategies.

  A known expert and frequent speaker on the transforming media ecosystem, Rick is the program director for BIA’s conference, “Winning Media Strategies” and for the continuous advisory service called Transformative Media Strategies (TMS). Both programs address how new technologies, competition, shifting consumer demographics and media usage trends are driving changes in the media ecosystem and what traditional media companies must do to be successful in the new environment.

  Prior to joining BIAfn in 2000, Rick was a top executive at the National Association of Broadcasters. He was Senior Vice President of NAB’s Research and Information Group. In this position, he was in charge of the association’s new technology assessment, audience and policy research, strategic planning, information systems, including all Internet operations and he also developed publications and seminars.

  Before joining NAB in 1983, Rick was a faculty member in the Department of Telecommunication at Michigan State University where he taught and did research in the areas of emerging telecommunication technologies and strategic market research. He also served on the graduate management faculties of George Mason University and George Washington University in telecommunications management and the University of Maryland, where he taught strategic market management and research methodologies. He published a number of research articles and papers in these areas and serves on editorial boards of leading scholarly journals in the communications field. He worked at radio stations WSOQ-AM/WEZG-FM and Upstate Cablevision in North Syracuse, NY.

  Rick received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University; M.S. from Syracuse University and B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

• November 19, 2009: QUELLO ANNUAL LECTURE

  2009-10-12T16:55:08-05:00
  

  

  “Governing the Revolution in Global Information and Communications Markets” (PDF)

  Peter F. Cowhey, Senior Counselor, US Trade Representative; Dean and Qualcomm Professor, UC San Diego (on leave)

  Post-lecture reception sponsored by the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media’s ICT for Development Lecture Series.

  Please REGISTER by sending an email to .

  Peter Cowhey is serving as the Senior Counselor to the US Trade Representative while on leave from his position as Dean and Qualcomm Professor at the University of California, San Diego.

  He has served as Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies since 2001.  He is the former Director of the University of California system’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and head of policy studies for the California Institute on Telecommunications and Information Technology.

  Cowhey’s research has especially focused on the political economy of international trade, investment and regulatory policies.  He served as the Senior Counselor to the Chairman and Chief of the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1997.  During this time the Commission completely revamped its global competition policies and worked intensively with USTR on forging a WTO agreement on basic telecommunications services.  His newest book is Transforming Global Information and Communications Markets: The Political Economy of Change (MIT Press, 2009).

  Cowhey serves on the boards of the Grameen Foundation, the Institute of the Americas, and the California Council on Science and Technology.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Affairs.

  Cowhey holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University, and a master’s and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

• Beyond Broadband Access: Data-based Information Policy for a New Administration

  2009-08-26T13:02:56-05:00
  

  Workshop Program (pdf)

  An experts workshop co-organized by the Quello Center with the Institute for Information Policy, The Pennsylvania State University; School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Rutgers University; School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; and The New America Foundation.

• “Browsing as the killer app: Explaining the rapid success of Apple’s iPhone”

  2009-04-08T14:50:02-05:00
  

  Dr. Joel West of San Jose State University will give a talk entitled “Browsing as the killer app: Explaining the rapid success of Apple’s iPhone.”

  Joel West (www.JoelWest.org) is associate professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the San José State University College of Business. His research interests include innovation strategies in the ICT sector, technical entrepreneurship and innovation policy. He is the co-editor of Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford, 2006) and is currently working on a book on the San Diego telecommunications industry entitled From MIT to Qualcomm. He holds an S.B. from MIT and a Ph.D. from UC Irvine, and spent 20 years as a software industry engineer, manager and entrepreneur.

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