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Beyond the Pandemic?

Exploring the Impact of Covid-19 on Telecommunications and the Internet
2023 ᛫


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Summary


This book contains an Open Access chapter


The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and society globally. In addressing the crisis, the Internet proved incredibly important in enabling many to shift physical work, education, and social activities online and facilitating the tracking of the progress of the pandemic.


Beyond the Pandemic? is the first edited collection to concentrate on the dynamic and complex relationship between the Internet and the role it played in responding to the pandemic. Covid-19 accelerated the digital economy transformation, changing the way work, education, and social engagement is organized, potentially permanently. The collection of international scholars who contributed to this volume offer insightful perspectives on how the Internet ecosystem responded and was changed as a consequence of Covid-19; the sectoral consequences of shifting activity online that the Internet enabled for many, but not for all; and the implications for regulatory policies.


Given how central digital technologies are to all aspects of business, society, and government, Beyond the Pandemic? is integral to the exploration of the sectoral consequences of the Internet for business managers, policymakers and researchers engaged in planning and study for the digital economy future and planning for future pandemics.

Table of contents

  • Chapter 1. Introduction; Jason Whalley, Volker Stocker, and William Lehr

  • Chapter 2. Covid-19 and the Internet: Lessons Learned; Volker Stocker, William Lehr, and Georgios Smaragdakis OPEN ACCESS
  • Chapter 3. Covid-19 and the Shift to Remote Work; Scott Marcus
  • Chapter 4. Digital Transformation of Educational Institutions Accelerated by Covid-19: A Digital Dynamic Capabilities Approach; André Renz and Romy Hilbig
  • Chapter 5. The Smart City and Covid-19; William Webb
  • Chapter 6. How Covid Accelerated the Restructuring of UK Retail; Jason Whalley and Peter Curwen
  • Chapter 7. Regulatory and Broadband Industry Responses to Covid-19: Cases of Uganda, Peru and the Caribbean; Mark Jamison, Dorothy Okello, Roxana Barrantes, and David Cox
  • Chapter 8. Beyond the Pandemic? Exploring the Impact of Covid on Spectrum Use and Management; Mohamed El-Moghazi
  • Chapter 9. Net Neutrality in the USA During Covid-19; Roslyn Layton and Mark Jamison
  • Chapter 10. Trends in Cybercrime During the Covid-19 Pandemic; Josephine Wolff
  • Chapter 11. Pandemics and Infodemics: How Covid-19 is Reshaping Content Regulation; Tatiana Tropina
  • Chapter 12. Beyond the Pandemic: Towards a Digitally Enabled Society and Economy; Volker Stocker, Jason Whalley, and William Lehr

About the authors



Jason Whalley is Professor of Digital Economy at Northumbria Business School, Northumbria University, UK.

Volker Stocker is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and TU Berlin, Germany.

William Lehr is a research scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, USA.