Exploring the Limits
Subtitle: Europe's Changing Communication Environment
By: by Ulrich Thomas Lange, Klaus Goldhammer
Contributors: Goldhammer, Klaus
Series: European Communication Council (ECC): Report 1997; European Communication Council (ECC): Report 1997
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9783642645365; 9783642607462
Subjects: Engineering; Telecommunication
Description: The ECC was formed in 1996 to discuss current developments in information and communication technologies and related perspectives for economics, politics and social systems. The 1997 report gives a scientific evaluation of some of the discussed trends in our society.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Introduction; title: Economic perspectives; title: Coping with information overload. Internet - on the verge of a modern society? The economics of new information and communication technologies; title: Social perspectives; title: New media in European households. Communication and decommunication. "Dedication"- the private and the personal in communication; title: Policy perspectives; title: Policy implications of economic and cultural value chains. Strategic alliances in the new communication environment. Public Service Broadcasting in the digital market place. The harmonisation of copyright and related rights. State intervention - the Japanese experience. Regulation in the USA - lessons for Europe?.