{"product_id":"transforming-everything-karen-mossberger-9780190082888","title":"Transforming Everything?: Evaluating Broadband's Impacts Across Policy Areas","description":"Broadband, or high-speed internet, has been called the most important infrastructure challenge of the century. It has the potential to connect remote communities, streamline health care services, and support innovation across education, economics, and numerous other fields. Given the growing and widespread investments in broadband, how can citizens and policymakers determine whether the promise of broadband is being fulfilled? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransforming Everything?\u003c\/em\u003e offers a comprehensive guide to the complexities and possibilities of broadband as a social technology. It addresses challenges for evaluating broadband initiatives across diverse contexts and proposes guidance and methods for evaluation for policymakers and researchers. Contributors draw on pioneering research in program evaluation and information technology to explore broadband applications in health, education, and civic engagement. They also address key measurement and evaluation challenges in the field today, including issues in privacy and security and inadequate research methods for target populations. Collectively, the chapters in this volume raise important questions for improving research and evaluation in broadband use and producing actionable evidence in a highly dynamic environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransforming Everything?\u003c\/em\u003e prepares readers with a critical understanding of broadband technology and the necessary evidence to assess whether broadband programs and policy are truly empowering the communities they serve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Mossberger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190082887\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190082888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.39h x 6.13w x 0.61d","brand":"Karen Mossberger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945742958847,"sku":"9780190082888","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e103ca55-a6be-4d1d-a7d0-37ac67cced07.jpg?v=1681509610","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transforming-everything-karen-mossberger-9780190082888","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}