Transforming everything? evaluating broadband's impacts across policy areas / edited by Karen Mossberger, Eric W. Welch, and Yonghong Wu.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xvii, 241 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Mossberger, Karen. |
| Other author/creator | Welch, Eric W. |
| Other author/creator | Wu, Yonghong (Professor of public administration) |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Abstract | "Broadband internet use is often heralded for its transformative potential in a broad range of policy areas, but there is scarce evidence on whether this is so, and how it can be utilized most effectively by organizations and communities. While the attribution of change to programmatic efforts is a familiar challenge in evaluation research, broadband technologies present some particular issues for evaluation: the "black box" problem of understanding user behavior; the complexity of theorizing about the interaction between technology and policy-specific processes; and understanding change over time. How can we better address both the challenges and the opportunities for evaluating broadband initiatives? This chapter introduces the plan of the volume in the context of answering these questions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021029418 |
| ISBN | 9780190082871 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780190082888 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |