Making Public-Service Telecommunications : Past and Present Challenges to Networked Information Infrastructures
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"...
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| Language: | English |
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Bradford :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 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