Aalok Mehta
Professional Staff Member at House Appropriations Committee
Technology, Telecommunications, and Internet Policy
House Appropriations Committee
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Washington DC
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Professional Staff Member
Truman National Security Project
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Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Fellow
Internet Law & Policy Foundry
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Inaugural Fellow
Federal Communications Commission
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Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Senior Policy Advisor
White House, National Economic Council
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Policy Advisor
White House Office of Management and Budget
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Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Program Examiner
Self Employed
Freelance Writer and Editor
Public Knowledge
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Google Policy Fellow
Free Press
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C. Edwin Baker Policy Fellow
New America Foundation
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Washington D.C. Metro Area
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COMPASS Policy Fellow
Society for Neuroscience
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Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Writer
The Dana Foundation
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Web Journalist
National Geographic Society
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Senior Writer/Editor
The Washington Post
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News Producer
American Chemical Society
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Associate Editor, Chemical and Engineering News
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Dissertation: Domestic and International Tensions in Artificial Intelligence Policy
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University of Southern California
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M.P.P.
Sol Price School of Public Policy
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University of Southern California
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Master of Arts (M.A.)
Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
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University of Southern California
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BA
Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy
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Rice University
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During the 2012 US presidential debates, more than five million connected viewers turned to social media to respond to the broadcast and talk politics with one another. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examines the prevalence of humor and its relationship to visibility among connected viewers live-tweeting the debates. Based on a content analysis of tweets and accounts, we estimate that approximately one-fifth of the messages sent during the debates consisted of strictly humorous content. Using retweet frequency as a proxy for visibility, we found a positive relationship between the use of humor and the visibility of individual tweets. Not only was humor widespread in the discourse of connected viewers, but humorous messages enjoyed greater overall visibility. These findings suggest a strategic use of humor by political actors seeking greater shares of attention on social media.
Beyond Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and Visibility Among Connected Viewers of the 2012 US Presidential Debates
Social Media + Society
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118761201
In the open Internet debate, well-established economic analysis procedures fail to produce a coherent answer about key points of contention or to fully encompass the Internet’s value-generating aspects. Although this does not completely derail the privileged position of economism within communications policy, it does open a seam for a broader set of values and concerns around net neutrality to emerge. This provides a richer set of narratives that advocates can use to engage and enlarge their constituencies, but it also directly primes and activates certain elements of the citizenry. In this way, advocacy organizations have been able to inject a variety of values, not just commercial concerns, into the policy maker calculus and sustain a unique level of public engagement. In particular, three major characteristics of the net neutrality debate, if not necessary, seem at least sufficient to engender broad public engagement on an arcane regulatory issue.
Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy:  Values in the U.S. Net Neutrality Debate
International Journal of Communication
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In this paper, we examine the provenance, reliability, and uses of mobile demand forecasts and find that several highly visible spectrum demand estimates over the past several years have exceeded actual traffic, which may have biased spectrum allocation decisions and policies in socially suboptimal ways.
Overestimating Wireless Demand: Policy and Investment Implications of Upward Bias in Mobile Data Forecasts
CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Technology Policy
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In this article, we explore the history of spectrum policy and review advantages and disadvantages of current management practices in light of current technological and economic trends. The evidence suggests that not only is spectrum sharing becoming more important and feasible, but that a framework that makes sharing the default approach offers significant political, economic, and societal benefits. Exclusive-use licenses will still be desirable in many circumstances, but they should have the burden of proof.
The Spectrum Opportunity: Sharing as the Solution to the Wireless Crunch
International Journal of Communication
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/download/2239/1054
Various countries and companies are making significantly different choices in structuring mobile platforms, with differing consequences for openness. Openness played an essential role in fostering broad-based innovation throughout the wired internet, and was a key factor in its success. As much internet use moves to mobile platforms, we can expect the characteristics of these platforms, in particular their degree of openness, to play a similarly important role in shaping the future evolution of communications. The goal of this paper is to explicate these choices so we can begin to analyze their likely consequences.
Comparing Mobile Openness: Case Studies of United States, United Kingdom, France, China, India & Brazil
Sep 2011
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Wilson Center Congressional Cybersecurity Lab
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Wilson Center Foreign Policy Fellowship
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CopyrightX
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Wilson Center Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Truman National Security Project
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Co-Lead, Technology and Innovation
Federal Communications Commission
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Intern and Fellow Mentor
Education
Executive Office of the President, The White House
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Intern Mentor
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Washington, DC
Anne Hobson
Public Policy Manager, AR/VR at Meta
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San Francisco, CA
Joe Mornin
Associate at Cooley LLP
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San Francisco Bay Area
Adi Kamdar
Associate at Durie Tangri LLP
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Piscataway
MANSI AMIN
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Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Lindsey Baker
Director at NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors)
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Rochester, NY
Leah Farrar
President, Internet Law and Policy Foundry | Cyber Fellow, YPFP
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Kristian Stout
Director of Innovation Policy at International Center for Law & Economics
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Westminster, CO
Mark Colwell
Telecommunications Policy and Business Strategy Expert
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Washington, DC
Annaliese Yukawa
Legislative Assistant/ Professional Staff Member at House of Representatives
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Washington, DC
Paul Eisler
Senior Director, Cybersecurity at USTelecom | The Broadband Association
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Washington, DC
Lara D. Crouch
Senior Professional Staff Member (Indo-Pacific) at United States Senate
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Washington, DC
Spencer Nelson
Managing Director of Research at ClearPath
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Washington, DC
Philip Tizzani
Professional Staff Member, House Appropriations Committee
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Washington, DC
Grant Schneider
Director at the National Security Council
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Washington, DC
Hannah Thoburn
Professional Staff Member, Committee on Foreign Relations at United States Senate
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Washington, DC
Alejandro Zendejas
Fellow at U.S. Department of State
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Washington, DC
Mario Loyola
Professor, Florida International University, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute. National Review.
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Aalok Mehta
Creative Content Producer
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Raleigh, NC
Aalok Mehta
Process Engineer II at Biogen
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Aalok Mehta
Staff Professional Services Consultant at Splunk
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Singapore
Aalok Mehta