Public access to the Internet / edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Internet and the National Information Infrastructure / Brian Kahin -- Balancing the commercial and public-interest visions of the NII / Lewis M. Branscomb -- Public access issues : an introduction / James Keller -- The WELL : a regionally based on-line community on the Internet / Cliff Figallo -- Atheism, sex, and databases : the net as a social technology / Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj -- Learning and teaching on the Internet : contributing to educational reform / Beverly Hunter -- Issues in the development of community cooperative networks / Frank Odasz -- Public access to the Internet : American Indian and Alaskan Native issues / George Baldwin -- The role of public libraries in providing public access to the Internet / Carol C. Henderson and Frederick D. King -- The Internet and the poor / Richard Civille -- Meeting the challenges of business and end-user communities on the Internet : what they want, what they need, what they're doing / Daniel Dern -- Models for the Internet local loop / Miles Fidelman -- Internet architectural and policy implications for migration from high-end user to the "new user" / Terrence P. McGarty and Carole Haywood -- Pricing the Internet / Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Hal R. Varian -- Service models and pricing policies for an integrated services Internet / Scott Shenker -- Pricing and competition policies for the Internet / Michael A. Einhorn -- Network analysis issues for a public Internet / Hans-Werner Braun and Kimberly C. Claffy.