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In the years it takes to raise a child, parents face many challenges that are both helped and hindered by parenting through a period of unparalleled digital innovation. In Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross draw on extensive research with a group of diverse parents in the U.K. to reveal how digital technologies shape parenting today, as parents forge new territory with little precedent or support.
If there’s one thing that this year’s COVID-19 crisis has made clear it’s that digital media and technology play a huge role in adolescents’ lives. Right now, as schools, peer networks, and communities have been pushed entirely online, the stakes couldn’t be higher for creating a digital ecosystem that supports all kids and families.
Media has a huge impact on how kids perceive themselves and the world around them. And while the movement to challenge stereotypes and make kids' media more inclusive and diverse has been gaining momentum, many children still don't see themselves reflected on-screen. Today, as racial and social injustice in our country reaches a fever pitch, creating and updating media that celebrates diversity and inclusion has never been more pressing.
Rural broadband infrastructure is often financed using public and private sources of capital. Private sources tend to be community banks. But not as much is known about bank financing than about funding from government sources:
The hearing will provide members an opportunity to examine policy issues before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and review the agency’s ongoing activities and proceedings.
Witnesses
The uses and effects of technological change permeate through all of our systems, including our democracy. Yet given political polarization and uncertain legal rules, our current climate presents unique challenges to our ideas and values of democracy. How might we use and think about technology to better serve our democratic institutions?
Wireless networks underpin almost every aspect of modern micromobility. Without them, it would be impossible to do things like manage a global fleet of scooters or track down a customer’s bike when it gets stolen or lost.
But the connectivity choices available to micromobility companies are limited. Both WiFi and Bluetooth have short range, and cellular data plans can be pricy. However, thanks to new advances in low-power, long-range networking technology, the connectivity landscape is changing.
The July tech antitrust hearing in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee stands to be historic. With the CEOs of Silicon Valley’s four most important firms — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Google’s Sundar Pichai — all testifying, this may be the moment Americans finally get answers about what makes Big Tech tick and the implications the industry holds for competition in an increasingly digital world.
An essential part of the 5G technology evolution is the rapid implementation and sanctity of 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) technology. By standardizing or “opening” the protocols and interfaces between the various subcomponents in the RAN, we will move to an environment where networks can be deployed with a more modular design without being dependent upon a single vendor.
Open RAN technology and how the U.S. Congress can help facilitate a network evolution with the potential to create economic opportunities while increasing supply chain diversity and promoting competition.
Television executives from E.W. Scripps, Tegna and the National Association of Broadcasters will assess what progress the industry is making toward diversity and inclusion both in front of and behind the camera and in its news coverage of minority communities during a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch Webinar.