Arts and Technology

2007, 304 pages. Published by The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10013, (212) 629-8802, www.thenewpress.org

2008, 19 pages. Intelligent Television, 225 Duke Ellington Blvd., New York, NY, 10025, 212-316-5494, www.intelligenttv.com

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2008, 256 pages. Published by Profile Books Ltd.

2008, 319 pages. Published by The Penguin Press, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014

What is the best way to promote a vibrant and diverse exchange of educational information, cultural expression, and political discourse over the Internet? What type of service—commercial enterprise, government agency, or non-commercial organization—can be counted on to insure that quality and diversity are reflected prominently?

The Federal Communications Commission formally voted Friday (August 1, 2008) to uphold the complaint against Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, saying that it had illegally inhibited users of its high-speed Internet service from using popular file-sharing software. The decision, which imposes no fine, requires Comcast to end such blocking this year.

What was at stake

Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London, 2008, 297 pages, Edited by Diane Grams and Betty Farrell.

2007, 29 pages. The Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange, 666 Broadway Suite 500, NY, NY 10012, (212) 529-5300, www.fex.org/mjf

2007, 7 pages. The William Penn Foundation, Two Logan Square, 11th Floor, 100 North 18th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 988-1830, www.williampenfoundation.org

Arts and education grantmakers at an historic gathering in Santa Fe in October of 2007 agreed on the need to forge a new vision for public education in the United States and to collectively explore how the arts can help shape and realize that vision.

Convened by Grantmakers in the Arts and Grantmakers for Education, more than 100 foundation representatives met formally for the first time under the aegis of their two affinity organizations to debate and discuss the role of the arts in education.