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Stevie Converse & Megan Tady
The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, in partnership with Michigan State University, has been awarded $2 million in federal stimulus funds to help create a media-based economy in the city. And a team of professors at Rice University is pioneering a project to use “white spaces” to bring high-speed Internet to their community.
Public interest groups and tech innovators are cheering an FCC report that may clear the way for using empty TV channels to connect millions of people to the Internet. And dozens of small, independent magazines have been forced to shut down their operations.