Friday, May 6, 2011

Net Neutrality on Wikipedia

When I read the wikipedia entry on "net neutrality" and one thing that appeared not so obvious to me is the negative affect that net neutrality has to offer.  It seemed like there were only pros to the issue and nothing saying anything about the negative impact it might have on society. 

I also looked up "Internet Traffic" on wikipedia, which showed a lot of numbers from past years of internet activity as well as the predicted activity for the next two years.  Since 1994 petabytes per month has gone from .02 to 30,864.50 which is a tremendous increase since the internet has begun.  In two years it is estimated to increase over 25,000 more!  This statistic makes the net neutrality issue make more sense in the way that there is more money in the business that is constantly on the rise. 

After looking at European internet articles, there seems to be an issue with cyber spam and a need for regulation and a sense of security for those who are accessing the internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic

By using the omnifile database, I searched "net neutrality" then within that search I searched "Europe" then I narrowed it down to full texts so that I could easily see what each article had for input on the Internet in Europe.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Internet and broadband and net neutrality

The search engine I used was the omnifile database on the SCU library database website.  I used it because it has always given me quality results in past research assignments along with the fact that it is a large resource for scholarly articles.
I first searched "Internet" into the database.  I then searched within those results for "broadband".  To narrow it down even further I searched "net neutrality".  46 results came up and I decided to continue my research from there. 
The best URL that I found was http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.sculib.scu.edu/hww/results/getResults.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/results/results_common.jhtml.35
There are two articles under this website that I used to gain the information for the topic of my research.

The individual responsible for this research is Lee L. Selwyn; Helen E. Golding.  Federal Communcations Law Journal
The other article I looked at is written by  Brooke Ericson.  Administrative Law Review

These sites are journals that have been uploaded to the Internet. 

The information written by Selwyn and Golding was published in 2010 and the article written by Ericson was also published in 2010.

There is a great deal of explanation about how the broadband network came into existence and how the Internet services have become more advanced to benefit the society.  These websites help explain the functions of the Internet in our society and the ability of the public to access the Internet on a daily basis.

Everything I found on these articles was very reliable and thorough on the topic of broadband and net neutrality within the search of the Internet