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New Communications Technologies Applications, Policy, and Impact, Fourth Edition Paperback - 2000 - 4th Edition

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Author: Michael Mirabito; Barbara Morgenstern
ISBN: 9780240804293

by Mirabito, Michael M.; Barbara L. Morgenstern

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This exciting new edition of New Communications Technologies provides vital information on the new and emerging technologies that will shape the way communicators do business in a rapidly changing world. In addition to technological background on computers, information storage, fiber optics, mobile communications, and digital television, you will discover the social and economic ramifications of these evolving technologies. As technological convergence continues to accelerate, it will be increasingly important for communications professionals to be on top of these rapidly changing technologies and their impact on society. While exploring the underlying concepts that drive technological change, New Communications Technologies, Fourth Edition focuses on the latest and most important trends. This text includes chapters on information services such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, wireless communications, email and privacy, the new technologies, and the first amendment. The book also includes coverage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as well as extensive information on satellites and launch systems. The new edition has been expanded and updated to include increased coverage of legal topics, a new foreword and contributions from Barbara Cochran, President of the Radio-Television News Directors Association. There is a new companion Web site at www.focalpress.com/companions

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Much has been written about the communication revolution-some of it realistic, some of it not.

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Title New Communications Technologies Applications, Policy, and Impact, Fourth Edition
Author Mirabito, Michael M.; Barbara L. Morgenstern
Binding Paperback
Edition number 4th
Edition 4
Pages 280
Publisher Focal Press, Stoneham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date November 2000
ISBN 9780240804293

About the author

Michael Mirabito is a Professor and supervises the Distance Education and other academic information units at Marywood University in Pennsylvania. He is also a consultant specializing in the new communications technologies, and has written a book about video cameras on NASA's space probes.Barbara Morgenstern is a Professor at the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in New York and specializes in teaching media law. She is also involved in curriculum development, particularly as it pertains to communications law.