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Join the ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Foundation’s Media Policy Initiative to mark the release of Susan Crawford’sÌýCaptive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly PowerÌýin the New Gilded Age. In the book, Crawford uses the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBCU as a framework to explore how deregulatory changes in policy have created a communications crisis in America. From smartphones and television programming to the cost of high-speed Internet access,ÌýCaptive AudienceÌýillustrates how a handful of companies control our information destiny. As a consequence, tens of millions of Americans are being left behind. Many people pay too much for too little Internet access, and speeds are slow. But everyday people can change this story— and what happens in the year ahead could change the game for good.

On Twitter? Use #CaptiveAudience to join the conversation online.

Participants:

Susan CrawfordÌý
Author, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly PowerÌýin the New Gilded Age
Professor, Cardozo Law School
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Director, Open Technology Institute, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Foundation
Vice President, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Foundation