Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Assistant Professor

Center for Public Policy and Administration / Communication
308 Machmer Hall
(413) 545-3455
mfuentes@comm.umass.edu
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Education: Ph.D. in Communication: University of Texas, Austin, 2007

Research Interests: telecommunication and community media policy; technology and inequality; global communications; social movements and new media technologies

Martha Fuentes-Bautista is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Communication. She conducts research on the social and policy implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with a particular focus on how ICTs exacerbate or alleviate social inequalities. She also has investigated the institutional contexts of ICT adoption and use in Latin America and the U.S. Publications include “Reconfiguring Public Internet Access in Austin, TX: WiFi’s Promise and Broadband Divides” (Government Information Quarterly). A recent Faculty Research/Healey Endowment grant is supporting data collection and analysis concerning the role played by local broadband interventions on the ability of Western Massachusetts communities to expand universal service—findings that will inform state and federal programs charged with advancing broadband coverage.

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