Making public-service telecommunications : past and present challenges to networked information infrastructures / / guest editor Professor Dan Schiller

• Pubblicazione: Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 v.)
• Disciplina: 384;384.068
• Soggetto topico: Telecommunication; Telecommunication policy
• Altri autori: SchillerDan <1951->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Table of contents -- Guest editorial -- The public interest and the global, future telecommunications landscape -- The hidden history of US public service telecommunications, 1919-1956 -- Regulatory economics and its discontents: some theoretical and historical observations -- Democracy of, in and through communication: struggles around public service in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century -- The labouring of the public service principle: union convergence and worker movements in the North American communication industries -- Constructing closed-captioning in the public interest: from minority media accessibility to mainstream educational technology -- Searching for universal access: the public interest, the FCC and the regulation of international telecommunications -- Telecom musings: public service issues in India -- ''Universal service'' and China's telecommunications miracle: discourses, practices, and post-WTO accession challenges -- The letter of the law: telecommunications and the corporate person -- Network neutrality is the new common carriage.
• Sommario/riassunto: The opportunity to revisit the subject of public service telecommunications is both timely and important.This e-book contains a selection of papers presented at a conference on "Making public-service telecommunications:past and present challenges to networked information infrastructures" organized by the Center for Advanced Study,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in April 2006.
• Titolo autorizzato: Making public-service telecommunications
• ISBN: 1-280-84748-4; 9786610847488; 1-84663-395-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911138365403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II