LEA Telecommunications Series
Highway of Dreams: A Critical View Along the Information Superhighway
1st Edition
By A. Michael Noll
October 01, 1996
This important volume reviews the history of the telecommunication superhighway pointing out its beginnings in the interactive TV and broadband highway of the wired cities more than two decades ago. It explains the technological uncertainties of the superhighway and many of its futuristic services,...
Telecommunications Politics: Ownership and Control of the information Highway in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Bella Mody, Johannes M. Bauer, Joe Straubhaar
September 01, 1995
This volume brings together scholars and policymakers to address the issue of telecommunications policy in developing countries. It elaborates on the position that economics and technology determine the framework for discussion, but politics makes the decision. Politics, in this case, refers to the...
Toward A Competitive Telecommunication Industry: Selected Papers From the 1994 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerald W. Brock
September 01, 1995
Providing an authoritative perspective on the best current research regarding telecommunication policy, this book is based on the 22nd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. The papers focus on the critical policy issues created by increasing competition in the industry. The book ...
The People's Right To Know: Media, Democracy, and the Information Highway
1st Edition
Edited
By Frederick Williams, John V. Pavlik
November 01, 1993
This important volume presents the pros and cons of a national service that will meet the information needs and wants of all people. In the preface, Everette E. Dennis, Executive Director of The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, asks, "What will a true information highway -- where most citizens ...