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This collection of articles reviews some of the latest developments in telecommunications and electronic storage and processing devices, and provides a perspective on telecommunications capabilities currently available. Each section focuses on specific technologies or aspects of the communications environment. ^BSelected Contents: A Little Light, A Bright Promise: Fiber Optics; Teleconferencing: A Rapidly Growing Innovation; Cellular Phones: The Way We Communicate Today; GTE in Cerritos; Cable Television Regulation and Competition; Cable Television: Application and Technology; Communication Satellites; High Definition Television: The Next Generation; Interaction Video Graphics; Desktop: What's in Store for Publishing; Videocassette Recorders; Videodisc; The VCR of the 90s; Compact Discs; CD-ROM: Past and Present on Disc
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Social Foundations of the Mass Media is a historical examination of the intellectual debate over the extent of permissible freedom that should be allowed for the expression and discussion of conflicting ideas. The treatment begins with the ancient Egyptian concepts, extends through Middle Eastern writings, treats the Inquisition and concludes with modern concepts in the United States. Both the church and the state have long desired to repress dissident opinion fearing that their authority would be undermined. They have used persecution, laws, the courts and public opinion to try to impose their ideas upon an unwilling population. Thinkers from Aristotle to Zechariah Chafee, Jr., the renowned legal scholar at Harvard University, and Hugo Black, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, have had much to say about the role of journalists, writers and dissidents. Each of their ideas and those of many others appear in the Social Foundations of the Mass Media. The debate will continue well into the future, but the issues that have been raised over the centuries remain central to the debate today.
" ... presents a new political philosophy to help explain the concepts that define the limits of expression within the State. The focus is on the reason for the controls placed upon the media, and upon events and the laws as they shape the role of the State in controlling freedom of expression. In developing this philosophy, the history of the media, media law, and political philosophy are explored only as they relate to the philosophy."--Introduction.
Mass media has become an integral part of the human experience. News travels around the world in a split second affecting people in other countries in untold ways. Although being on top of the news may be good, at least for news junkies, mass media also transmits values or the lack thereof, condenses complex events and thoughts to simplified sound bites and often ignores the essence of an event or story. The selective bibliography gathers the books and magazine literature over the previous ten years while providing access through author, title and subject indexes.
" ... presents a new political philosophy to help explain the concepts that define the limits of expression within the State. The focus is on the reason for the controls placed upon the media, and upon events and the laws as they shape the role of the State in controlling freedom of expression. In developing this philosophy, the history of the media, media law, and political philosophy are explored only as they relate to the philosophy."--Introduction.