TPRC49
September 22-24, 2021 Virtual Conference

Program Overview

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Link to papers accessible on SSRN

Wednesday, September 22

10:15 am ET - Conference Welcome, Nicol Turner Lee

10:30 am ET - Paper Sessions (specific papers listed here)

12 noon ET - Paper Sessions (specific papers listed here)

1:30 pm ET - Plenary Session, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, ITU and Chike Aguh, U.S. Dept of Labor

2:30 pm ET - Panel Session: Radio Frequency Spectrum Efficiency – New Developments and Trends, Moderator: Dale Hatfield
Poster Session

3:30 pm ET - Town Hall - The information Society: Restoring the Future, Facilitators: Johannes Bauer, Michigan State University and Eli Noam, Columbia University with remarks from The Honorable Ro Khanna, U.S. Representative, Sherry Turkle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robin Mansell, London School of Economics, Pamela Samuelson, University of California Berkeley

4:30 pm ET - Networking

Thursday, September 23

10:15 am ET - Conference Welcome, Nicol Turner Lee

10:30 am ET - Paper Sessions (specific papers listed here)

12 noon ET - Paper Sessions (specific papers listed here)

1:30 pm ET - Plenary Session: Comments by Adrianna Furness, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and Student Paper Presentations

2:30 pm ET - Panel Session: Here Comes the Quantum ARPANET, Moderator: Jane Bambauer, University of Arizona
Poster Session

3:30 pm ET - Panel Session: Global cyber governance issues in a multi-polar world, Moderator: Milton Mueller, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Friday, September 24

10:15 am ET - Conference Welcome, Nicol Turner Lee

10:30 am ET - Paper Sessions

12 noon ET - Paper Sessions

1:30 pm ET - Fireside Chat: Acting Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, FCC and Nicol Turner Lee, Brookings Institute, Introduction by David Don, Comcast

2:30 pm ET - Panel: The Technical and Policy Considerations of using Machine Learning tools in Content Moderation, Moderator: Dhanaraj Thakur, Center for Democracy & Technology
Poster Session

3:30 pm ET - Closing Panel: What COVID taught us about the future of technology and TPRC? Moderator: Nicol Turner Lee, TPRC Board Chair, and Senior Fellow, Governance Studies and Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

Paper Sessions Wednesday, September 22

10:30 am ET

1. Broadband-Mobile
Moderator: Peter Stenberg, George Mason University

• Next-G Wireless: Learning from 5G Techno-economics to Inform Next Generation Wireless Technologies
  Edward Oughton, George Mason University and William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Impact of mobile Internet use cases on socioeconomic wellbeing of individuals in Bangladesh and Ghana
  Himani Mehta, University of Pennsylvania, Christopher S. Yoo, University of Pennsylvania, Leon Gwaka, University of Pennsylvania, and Muge Haseki, University of Pennsylvania, 

• Cardinality Bundling Under Oligopoly – a Simulation Model
  Petrus H. Potgieter, University of South Africa and Bronwyn Howell, Victoria University of Wellington

2. Law & Economics-EU Regulation 
Moderator: Jennifer Huddleston, American Action Forum

• Platforms Within the AVMSD Regulatory Architecture: A VSPs Governance Model
  Ivana Kostovska, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sally Broughton Micova, University of East Anglia

• The Effect of Hate Speech Regulation on German Twitter
  Raphaela Andres, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research and Olga Slivko, Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University

• EU competence creep in the field of national security: Implications for mass surveillance of online communication
  Sarah Eskens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

3. Tech-Equity
Moderator: Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood, Florida International University

• Digital Inclusion Alchemy by Internet Backpack: ICT Policy Implications of Edge Computing & Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Education
  Lee W. McKnight, Syracuse University, Wednaud J. Ronelus, New York City Schools & Alchemists Club, Danielle Smith, Syracuse University, and Prasanta Ghosh, Syracuse University 

• Sharing Unfairly: Racial Bias on Airbnb and the Role of Comments
  Floor Fiers, Northwestern University and Nathan Walter, Northwestern University

• Creating a Digital Bridge: Lessons and policy implications from a technology access and distribution program for low-income job seekers
  Stacey Wedlake, University of Washington, Yvette Iribe Ramirez, University of Washington, Kathleen Carson, Seattle Jobs Initiative, Chris Jowaisas, University of Washington, David Keyes, City of Seattle Information Technology, and Matthew Houghton

4. Privacy-Empirical Assessments 
Moderator: Pam Dixon, World Privacy Forum

• Antitrust & Privacy: It’s Complicated
  James C. Cooper, George Mason- Antonin Scalia Law School and John M. Yun, George Mason- Antonin Scalia Law School

• Value of Personal Health/Medical Data and Potential of the Personal Health/Medical Data Market
  Atsushi Ozu, University of Tokyo, and Teppei Koguchi, Shizuoka University

• Worse Than Human?
  Derek E. Bambauer, University of Arizona and Michael Risch, Villanova University

5. Security-Data Breach 
Moderator: Marjory Blumenthal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• What Works? Measuring the Efficacy of Cyber Policy Interventions with Quasi-Experiments
  Karl Grindal, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Do Data Breaches Damage Reputation? Evidence from 45 Companies Between 2002 and 201S
  Christos Makridis, Arizona State University

• Enterprise Risk Management: Understanding the Role of Cyber Risk
  Sasha Romanosky, RAND Corporation and Elizabeth Petrun-Sayers, RAND Corporation

12 noon ET

6. Broadband-Rural 
Moderator: James Prieger, Pepperdine University

• Deploying Fiber in Appalachia: A Study of Fiber Deployment, Challenges, Funding, and the Impacts of Broadband Connectivity in Eastern Kentucky  

  Udayan Das, Saint Mary’s College of California and Keith Gabbard, People Rural Telephone Cooperative (PRTC)

• Remote and Indigenous Broadband: A Comparison of Canadian and US Regulatory Initiatives
  Heather Hudson, University of Alaska Anchorage, Rob McMahon, University of Alberta 

• The Effects of Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas: Evaluating the Connect America Fund Program 
  Luisa Nazareno, Georgia State University and Justina Jose, Georgia State University

7. Law & Economics-China 
Moderator: Rob Strayer, ITIC

• Regulation of platform market access by the U.S. and China: Neo-mercantilism in digital services
  Milton Mueller, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Karim Farhat, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Three Delusions and a New Path: the Political Economy of the Chinese Food Traceability System
  Blue Miaoran Dong, Carleton University

• Telecom’s Road to 2030: “What if We Were to Do Nothing?”
  Richard D. Taylor, Pennsylvania State University

8. Tech-Equity 2
Moderator: Alan S. Inouye, American Library Association

• Disparate Impacts of New Technologies on Women and Minorities: The Case of Broadband in the U.S.
  Peter Wang, Digital Markets Initiative, and Mark A. Jamison, University of Florida

• COVID-19 and African E-Learning Systems: Structural and Institutional Strategies for Resilience and Antifragility
  Patience Akpan-Obong, Arizona State University

• Spatial Patterns of Purposeful Social Networking and Socioeconomic Influences: Towards a Mature, Inclusive Networked Society in the U.S.  
  Avijit Sarkar, University of the Redlands, James Pick, University of the Redlands and Tridev Raut, University of the Redlands

9. Privacy-Ethics 
Moderator: Peter Winn, Department of Justice

• Social Media as Contractual Networks: A Bottom Up Check on Content Moderation Niva Elkin-Koren, Tel Aviv University, Giovanni De Grigorio, University of Oxford – Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Maayan Perel, Netanya Academic College

• Privacy Tradeoffs: Who Should Make Them, and How?
  Jane Bambauer, University of Arizona

• The View from Above: Framing of Digital Privacy in Post Cambridge Analytica Congressional Hearings
  Dmitry Epstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rotem Medzini, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

10. Security-Geopolitics
Moderator: Hannah Price, CSIS 

• A Comparative analysis of Cyber Sovereignty Policies in China and the EU
  Yik Chan Chin, Beijing National University and Ke Li, Beijing National University

• “Everyone Had to be Part of This:” Social Media and Uprising Participation Decisions
  Carolyn Gideon, Tufts University and Abigail Kukura

• A Systematic Approach to Reduce Digital Waste
  Steven Weber, University of California Berkeley

PAPER SESSIONS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

10:30 am ET Sessions

11. Broadband-State/Local Policy
Moderator: Randy May, Free State Foundation

• Do ‘Dig Once’ and Permitting Policies Improve Fiber Availability?
  Christina Biedny, Oklahoma State University, Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University and Roberto Gallardo, Purdue University

• A program evaluation of state broadband grant programs
  William Rinehart, Center for Growth and Opportunity

• Effects of Market Structure on Broadband Quality in Local U.S. Residential Service Markets
  Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin and Pablo Varas, University of Texas at Austin

12. Law & Economics-Platform Regulation
Moderator: Tarleton Gillespie, Microsoft

• Universal Digital Ad Transparency
  Laura Edelson, New York University, Jason Chuang, Mozilla and Erika Franklin Fowler, Wesleyan University, Michael Franz, Bowdoin College, Travis N. Ridout, Washington State University

• Too Hot to Handle?: Native Advertising and the Firestone Dilemma
  Eliezer Silberberg, University of Minnesota Law School

• Rethinking Product Liability Rules for Online Marketplaces: A Comparative Perspective
  Christoph Busch, University of Osnabrueck

13. Law & Economics-Network Contracts 
Moderator: Christos Makridis, Arizona State University

• The Risks and Rewards in Weaponizing Spectrum Planning at the International Telecommunication Union
  Rob Frieden, Penn State University

• Incentives and optimal time of investment in New Zealand’s building-blocks regulation of its FTTH open-access network
  Fernando Beltran, University of Auckland

• Smart Contracts, Real-Virtual World Convergence and Policy Implications
  William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

14. Spectrum
Moderator: Grace Koh, Nokia

• IMT-2020 Standardization: Lessons from 5G and Future Perspectives for 6G
  Mohamed El-Moghazi, NTRA and Jason Whalley, Northumbria University

• Novel-Infrastructure Bidders' Impact on Cost-Based Subsidy Auctions: Evidence from RDOF Phase I
  Jonathan Lee, The Brattle Group and Coleman Bazelon, The Brattle Group, Paroma Sanyal, The Battle Group

• Rivalrous Regulators: An Historical Analysis of the Dual Agency Approach to Spectrum Management

  Jeffrey Westling, R Street

12 Noon ET Sessions

15. Broadband-Measurement
Moderator: Hernan Galperin, University of Southern California

• Measuring Library Broadband Networks to Address Knowledge Gaps and Data Caps
  Colin Rhinesmith, Simmons University and Chris Ritzo, Measurement Lab

• Is remote working a privilege? A spatial Durbin approach of digital infrastructure and workplace mobility change during the COVID-19, Ryan Wang, Pennsylvania State University

• Measurement, Meaning and Purpose: Exploring the M-Lab NDT Dataset
  David Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sara Wedeman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

16. Law & Economics-Platform Regulation 2 
Moderator: Jonathan Levy

• Safeguarding Public Values in Cooperation with Big Tech Companies: The Case of the Austrian Contact Tracing App Stopp Corona
  Valerie Steinkogler, EMJMD DCLead

• A Comparative Lens on Prominence Regulation and Its Implications for Media Pluralism. a Working Paper
  Eleonora Maria Mazzoli, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Into the Next Generation of Online Video: OTT Video 3.0
  Eli Noam, Columbia University

 17. Law & Economics-Interconnection
Moderator: Jane Coffin, Internet Society

• The Importance of National Data Infrastructure in Low- and Middle-income Countries
  Sharada Srinivasan, University of Pennsylvania and The World Bank Group, Niccolo Comini, The World Bank Group and Michael Minges, ICT Data

• From Substitutes to Complements: The Changing Dynamics of Wired and Wireless Networks 
  Coleman Bazelon, The Brattle Group, Paroma Sanyal, The Battle Group

• The Rise and Evolution of Clouds and Private Networks – Internet Interconnection, Ecosystem Fragmentation  
  Volker Stocker, Weizenbaum TU Berlin, Günter Knieps, University of Freiburg and Christoph Dietzel, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics and DE-CIX

18. Global Network Policy 
Moderator: Stuart Brotman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Challenges in measuring the Internet for the public Interest
  kc Claffy, University of California San Diego and David Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• A Framework for Expressing Registration Data Directory Services (née Whois) Rules
  Steve Crocker, Edgemoor Research Institute

• The Diffusion of National Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policies: A Network Approach 
  Ryan Wang, Penn State University, Yang Bai, Penn State University, Jenna Grzeslo, Penn State University and Krishna Jayakar, Penn State University

19. Spectrum-Rights
Moderator: Mohamed El-Moghazi, National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt

• On the Coexistence of Disparate Spectrum Users: A Property Rights Mismatch approach
  Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburgh, Ilia Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh and Prashant Krishnamurthy, University of Pittsburgh

• A Macroeconomic Model of Federal and Commercial Spectrum Usage 
  Carolyn Kahn, The Mitre Corporation, Jack McQueston, The Mitre Corporation, Susan Hanson, The Mitre Corporation, Zekarias Hussein, The Mitre Corporation, Haeme Nam, The Mitre Corporation, and Dan Brown, The Mitre Corporation and

• Spectrum Rights in an Adaptive & Reconfigurable Wireless World 
  Rohit Singh, Carnegie Mellon University and Doug Sicker, University of Colorado Denver

Paper Sessions Friday, September 24

10:30 am Paper Sessions

20. Law & Economics-Big Questions 
Moderator: Armand Musey, Summit Ridge Group

• Is Speed Enough? Examining the Definition of Broadband and Its Implications for Public Policy
  David Reed, University of Colorado Boulder

• Mapping the 5G Leadership Landscape: The Impact of Global Telecommunications Standard Setting on U.S. Strategy and Policy
  Alexandra Bruer and Doug Brake, ITIF

• Social Media and Privacy Laws and Regulations in Mongolia
  Undrah Baasanjav, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

 21. Security-Infrastructure 
Moderator: Lisa Fowlkes, FCC

• Toward Grading Cybersecurity & Resilience Posture for Cyber Physical Systems
  Rohit Singh, University of Colorado Boulder, Shaun T. Hutton, Baylor University, Michael J. Donahoo, Baylor University and Doug Sicker, University of Colorado Denver

• Identifying Critical Infrastructure in a World with Network Cybersecurity Risk
  Christos Makridis, Arizona State University and Deven Desai, Georgia Tech

• The Networked Politics of Incident Response: Practices and Pressure Points
  Louise Marie Hurel, London School of Economics and Political Science and Laurin Weissinger, Tufts University

22. Law & Economics-Platform Competition 
Moderator: Jeff Prince, Indiana University

• Effects of Big Tech Acquisitions on Start-up Funding and Innovation
  Tiago Sousa Prado, Michigan State University

• Innovating Big Tech Firms and Competition Policy: Favoring Dynamic Over Static Competition 
  David Teece, University of California Berkeley and Nicolas Petit, European University Institute

• Anticompetitive Effects in Platform (and Non-Platform) Markets
  Thomas Nachbar, University of Virginia School of Law

23. Tech-User Studies
Moderator: Keyla Hernandez-Ulloa, FCC

• Characterizing User Comprehension in the STIR/SHAKEN Anti-Robocall Standard
  Imani Sherman, University of Florida, Daniel Delgado, University of Florida, Juan Gilbert, University of Florida, Jaime Ruiz, University of Florida and Patrick Traynor, University of Florida

• A comparative study of local broadcasters' Twitter utilization in different market conditions
  Sangyong Han, University of Pennsylvania Law School

• The Clickwrap as Platform Governance: Assessing the Frequency of Exploitative Interface Designs During Digital Service Sign-Up
  Jonathan Obar, York University and Lior Magalashvili, Ryerson University 

12 Noon ET Sessions

24. COVID
Moderator: Andrea O’Sullivan, The James Madison Institute

• An analysis of state level COVID 19 related legislation related to internet governance, access, infrastructure Ian Dunham

• Community Media in a Pandemic: Facilitating Local Communication, Collective Resilience and Transitions to Virtual Public Life in the U.S.
  Patricia Aufderheide, American University, Antoine Haywood, University of Pennsylvania and Mariana Sanchez Santos, American University

• Changes in Mobile Broadband Infrastructure in Rural Georgia During the Covid-19 Pandemic
  Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech University, Luisa Nazareno, Georgia State University and Cathy Liu, Georgia State University

25. Security-Policy Assumptions 
Moderator: Paul Matzko, Cato Institute

• Covenants Without the Sword: Market Incentives for Cybersecurity Investment
  Vaibhav Garg, Comcast Cable

• Answering the Cyber Oversight Call
  Amy C. Gaudion, Penn State Dickinson Law

• Cybersecurity in Working from Home: An Exploratory Study
  Mary Bispham, Kings College London, Sadie Creese, Oxford University, William Dutton, GCSCC, Patricia Esteve-Gonzalez, GCSCC and Goldsmith Michael, Oxford University

26. Law & Economics-New Topics 
Moderator: Tom Vartanian, Executive Director, Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center

• Regulating Cryptocurrencies: mapping economic objectives and technological feasibilities Petrus H. Potgieter, University of South Africa and Bronwyn Howell, Victoria University of Wellington

• In Banks we Trust: Banks as Custodians of Personal Data in Open Banking Ecosystems 
  Ine van Zeeland, imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Jo Pierson, imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• Compulsory Trade Secret Licenses
  David Levine, Elon Law

27. Tech-AI
Moderator: Ryan Hagemann, IBM Policy Lab

• Tech Trek: Gauging Residents’ Comfort Levels with Smart Technologies through a “Datawalk”
  Gwen Shaffer, California State University Long Beach

• Smart Cities and Ethical Policies: The Challenges of Public Cameras and AI
  Sharon Strover, University of Texas at Austin and Tiancheng Cao, University of Texas at Austin, Maria Esteva, University of Texas at Austin, and Soyoung Park, University of Texas at Austin

• Acceptance and Effective Use of Virtual Assistants Janice Hauge, University of North Texas and Erezi Ogbo, North Carolina Central University

28. Tech-Novel research
Moderator: Petrus Potgieter, University of South Africa

• Aligning Legal Definitions of Personal Information with the Computer Science of Identifiability
  Scott Jordan, University of California, Irvine

• Explaining Public Attitudes about Facial Recognition Technology
  Paul Brewer, University of Delaware, James Bingaman, University of Delaware, Wyatt Dawson, University of Delaware, Ashley Paintsil, University of Delaware and David Wilson, University of Delaware

• Smart Household Devices and the Negotiation of Public and Private Spaces
  Sara Gandrén, inTechrity i Karlstad AB, Nicklas Berild Lundblad, Stockholm University