New communication technology and the public interest : compartive perspectives on policy and research / edited by Marjorie Ferguson
Imprint
London : Sage, 1987
Edition
1st ed
Descript
197 p
CONTENT
Theoretical perspectives: -- Is media theory adequate to the challenge of new communications technologies -- The social economics of information technology -- Information and some economics of the information revolution -- Industrial, cultural and social strategies: The challenge of neo-technological determinism for communication systems, industry and culture -- Unequal information: access and exclusion in the new communications market place -- Issues of regulation and privacy: Regulation and deregulation: telecommunication politics in the United States -- Information law, policy and the public interest -- Comparative policy perspectives: Policy persptective for new media in europe -- Europe and new communication technologies -- Broadcasting policy in Canada -- The Japanese approach to the development of new residential communications services