New communication technologies and the public interest : Comparative perspectives on policy and research / Edited by Marjorie Ferguson

Contributor(s):

Ferguson, Marjorie [ed.]

Series: Sage communications in society seriesPublication details: London : Sage, 1986Description: 197 pISBN:

0803997280

Summary: New communication and information technologies are now transforming economic, social, cultural and political life throughout the world. This book explores some of the theoretical, research and policy issues arising from such a transformation. The editor and contributors adopt a comparative approach from a range of social science perspectives to challenge many of the popular myths and futurologists' scenarios about the positive as well as the negative effects of the new technologies. Seminal studies in Part One explore theoretical perspectives related to the new media, examine media-centred versus society centred theories and offer a socio-economic model of information technology in the post-industrial, service society. Part Two takes a comparative look at policies and strategies in different industrialized societies, notably the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan. The effects of technological, rather than social, determinism, as well as the issue of unequal access to information technology are discussed. Deregulation in the United States and its effects on telecommunications and broadcasting policies at a national level are considered in Part Three in conjunction with the threat posed to individual and corporate privacy by international databanks. The final section, Part Four, presents a comparative overview of policies and approaches that have been adopted across a range of cultures and systems, from the diverse experience of Europe to Canada and Japan. These perspectives provide essential insight into emerging global trends, and suggest directions for future research. (Font: Editor)

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Acknowledgements -- Preface -- I. Theoretical perspectives: 1. Is media theory adequate to the challenge of new communications technologies? / Denis McQuail ; 2. The social economics of information technology / Ian Miles, Jonathan Gershuny ; 3. Information and some economics of the information revolution / Stan Metcalfe -- II. Industrial, cultural and social strategies: 4. The challenge of neo-technological determinism for communication systems, industry and culture / Marjorie Ferguson ; 5. Unequal information: access and exclusion in the new communications market place / Peter Golding, Graham Murdock -- III. Issues of regulation and privacy: 6. Regulation and deregulation: telecommunication politics in the United States / Muriel G. Cantor, Joel M. Cantor ; 7. Information law, policy and the public interest / James Michael -- IV. Comparative policy perspectives: 8. Policy perspectives for new media in Europe / Denis McQuail ; 9. Europe and new communication technologies / Nicole Dewandre ; 10. Broadcasting policy in Canada / Richard Collins ; 11. The Japanese approach to the development of new residential communications services / Jill Hartley -- Postscript: the emerging agenda -- Abbreviations -- Index -- Notes on contributors

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