1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455923403321

Autore

Babe Robert E.

Titolo

Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government / / Robert E. Babe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993

©1990

ISBN

1-282-05627-1

9786612056277

1-4426-8042-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

384/.0971

Soggetti

Telecommunication - Canada - History

Telecommunication policy - Canada - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Mythologies of Canadian Telecommunications -- 2. Telecommunications Today -- 3. Onset of Electronic Communication -- 4. Cartelization -- 5. The Telegraph Coast-to-Coast -- 6. Inception -- 7. Independent Telephones -- 8. The Politics of Government Control -- 9. Western Reaction -- 10. Local-Exchange Competition in Ontario and Quebec -- 11. Long-Distance Competition and Reversed Rate Rebalancing -- 12. Natural Monopoly: Arguments and Evidence -- 13. Unnatural Monopoly: Predatory Pricing and the Cost Inquiry -- 14. Rate Regulation -- 15. Juggling Corporate Forms -- 16. Broadcasting -- 17. Cable Television -- 18. Communications Satellites -- 19. Electronic Publishing -- 20. Political Economy -- 21. An Information Revolution? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study provides Canada's first comprehensive, integrated treatment of the emergence and development of key communication sectors: telegraph telephones, cable TV, broadcasting, communication satellites, and electronic publishing. By focusing on real institutions,



actual (and frequently predatory) business practices, and law and regulatory policies, in both historical and contemporary perspectives, Babe helps demystify current communication issues.Stressing the flexibility of communication 'technologies' on the one hand, and the element of corporate power on the other, Babe reintroduces the principle of corporate/governmental responsibility for communication outcomes, a principle that has been largely drowned out by the shrill cries of 'Information Revolution.'

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910214919303321

Autore

Aji Hélène

Titolo

Fonctions du Cliché : du Banal à la Violence / / Claudine Raynaud, Peter Vernon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tours, : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2017

ISBN

2-86906-475-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AmossyRuth

BeerGillian

BowlbyRachel

DanielDominique

DesblachesClaudia

EtcheverryMichel

FabreClaire

Frau-MeigsDivina

Hennard-DutheilMartine

KershnerSybille

MarzolaAlessandra

NetMariana

PorteousVéronique

PoulainPascale

RaynaudClaudine

SturgessCharlotte

TrotignonBéatrice

VernonPeter

Soggetti

Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Literature (General)

cliché

stylistique

stéréotype



psychologie

littérature de langue anglaise

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The first meaning of the word "cliché" is "positive": in typography a cliché is a metal plate upon which an image is reproduced in relief. In photography, however, cliché is a "negative" and, indeed, its most current acceptation is that of commonplace, banality, cultural stereotype, repetition. It makes reproduction possible and authorizes it. Bearing the positive and negative poles in mind, together with the dynamic of their potential inversion, one arrives at the core of the concept of cliché. The aim of the conference was to look at the various forms of manifestation of the cliché as well as the roles played by the cliché in discourse and text, while attending to the relations of the commonplace with banality and violence. As such, it was a logical follow up on our previous reflexion on cultural, historical and textual breaking points ("Usure et rupture").



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697925703321

Titolo

Final report [[electronic resource] ] : IEA Wind Annex XX : HAWT aerodynamics and models from wind tunnel measurements

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Golden, Colo : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 85 pages) : illustrations

Collana

NREL/TP ; ; 500-43508

Altri autori (Persone)

SchreckScott

Soggetti

Wind turbines - Research

Aerodynamic load - Measurement

Wind power

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed January 13, 2009).

"December 2008."

"The IEA Wind agreement, also known as the Implementing Agreement for Co-operation in the Research, Development, and Deployment of Wind Energy Systems, functions within a framework created by the International Energy Agency (IEA)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 82 ).