Milton Mueller

Milton Mueller is a Professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. He teaches and does research on the political economy of communication and information, using the theoretical tools of property rights analysis, institutional economics and both historical and quantitative social science methods. He has a longstanding interest in the history of communication technologies and global governance institutions. Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.

Mueller's most recent research projects explore the efforts of citizens and activists to shape communication and information policy, both globally and nationally. His acclaimed book Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002) was the first (and still the best!) scholarly account of the Internet governance debates. Mueller was a co-founder, with Kathy Kleiman, of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) (NonComm) and was chair of NCUC from 2003 - 2005.

[edit] Contact

• mueller [at] syr.edu

Also see: Books

External Links

• Mueller's home page
• The Internet Governance Project