Life in the Fast Lane: Net Neutrality and the Fight for Access to an Open Internet
As consumers of the Internet, we have only ever known net neutrality. It is a guiding principle of the worldwide web and it defines how we interact with content, consumables, and each other in the digital age. This presentation will explore net neutrality, how it remains an important concept in our digital lives, and why it may be one of the defining political battles of the 21st Century
R. James Wertz, Ph.D.
Dr. Wertz serves as the Director of the Honors Program at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and is an Assistant Professor of journalism and digital media as well as the journalism program coordinator in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations. Dr. Wertz has also taught courses in U.S. and Latin American history in Edinboro University’s Department of History, Anthropology, and World Languages. A Reading, Pa. native, Wertz earned concurrent Bachelor Degrees in History and Speech Communication from Edinboro University, received a master’s degree from The American University in Washington, D.C., where he studied the history of American politics and culture in post-1945 America, and completed his Ph.D. in Communications Media and Instructional Technology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
