The information resources policy handbook : research for the Information Age / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine, William H. Read.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Compaine, Benjamin M.

Read, William H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information resources management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Information resources management.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 631 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

To understand the Information Age one must understand the concept of information as a resource. Like other basic resources, such as energy and materials, information resources are building blocks of society. But unlike energy and materials, they are far more abundant and versatile. Information resources include computers, telecommunications, the mass media, and financial services, all created or changed by the movement from analog to digital. This collection looks at the factors underlying digital technologies as well as the resulting public and strategic policy issues.

Contents:

Foreword: Into the Age of Information / William O. Baker xi

Introduction: Information Resources: Knowledge and Power in the 21st Century / Anthony G. Oettinger xxiii

I Ageless Issues 1

Evergreen: 1 Telling Ripe from Hype in Multimedia: The Ecstasy and the Agony / Anthony G. Oettinger 3

2 Will Computer Communication End Geography? / Vincent Mosco 29

II New Age Technology 75

Evergreen: 3 A Convergence of Form and Function: Compunications Technologies / Anthony G. Oettinger 77

4 Understanding Computers and Communications / Robert W. Lucky 85

5 Understanding Digital / Anthony G. Oettinger 111

6 Standards: The Rough Road to the Common Byte / Martin C. Libicki 195

III Information as a Resource 237

Evergreen: 7 Building Blocks and Bursting Bundles / Anthony G. Oettinger 239

8 Publishing as a Creature of Technology / Jerome S. Rubin, Janet Wikler 289

9 Communications

For Better or for Worse / Daniel Bell 303

IV The Information Business 321

Evergreen: 10 Charting Change: The Harvard Information Business Map / Anthony G. Oettinger, John F. McLaughlin, Anne E. Birinyi 323

11 Size, Growth, and Trends of the Information Industries, 1987-1996 / Derrick C. Huang 347

12 Managing Information: Back to Basics / Benjamin M. Compaine, John F. McLaughlin 363

13 Knowledge as a Strategic Business Resource / William H. Read 379

14 New Competition and New Media / Benjamin M. Compaine 405

V Information Policy 421

Evergreen: 15 Information and Communications Policy Research

More Important, More Neglected / Eli M. Noam 423

16 Policies for Freedom / Ithiel de Sola Pool 431

17 Regulating Communications in the 21st Century: New Common Ground / Patricia Hirl Longstaff 453

18 FCC Reform: Does Governing Require a New Standard? / William H. Read, Ronald Alan Weiner 491

19 Cybercommunities and Cybercommerce: Can We Learn to Cope? / Anne Wells Branscomb 531

20 Cyberrules: Problems and Prospects for On-Line Commerce / Debora Spar 549

21 Political Gridlock on the Information Highway / W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight, Richard J. Solomon 575

22 Information Resources in the 21st Century / Benjamin M. Compaine, William H. Read 601.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0585070156

9780585070155

0262032643

9780262032643

0262270722

9780262270724

OCLC:

42922489

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Restricted for use by site license.