| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 631 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword: Into the Age of Information / William O. Baker -- Preface / Benjamin M. Compaine, William H. Read -- Introduction: Information Resources: Knowledge and Power in the 21st Century / Anthony G. Oettinger -- Ageless Issues -- Telling Ripe from Hype in Multimedia: The Ecstasy and the Agony / Anthony G. Oettinger -- Will Computer Communication End Geography? / Vincent Mosco -- New Age Technology -- A Convergence of Form and Function: Compunications Technologies / Anthony G. Oettinger -- Understanding Computers and Communications / Robert W. Lucky -- Understanding Digital / Anthony G. Oettinger -- Standards: The Rough Road to the Common Byte / Martin C. Libicki -- Information as a Resource -- Building Blocks and Bursting Bundles / Anthony G. Oettinger -- Publishing as a Creature of Technology / Jerome S. Rubin, Janet Wikler -- Communications--For Better or for Worse / Daniel Bell -- Information Business -- Charting Change: The Harvard Information Business Map / Anthony G. Oettinger, John F. McLaughlin, Anne E. Birinyi -- Size, Growth, and Trends of the Information Industries, 1987-1996 / Derrick C. Huang -- Managing Information: Back to Basics / Benjamin M. Compaine, John F. McLaughlin -- Knowledge as a Strategic Business Resource / William H. Read -- New Competition and New Media / Benjamin M. Compaine -- Information Policy -- Information and Communications Policy Research--More Important, More Neglected / Eli M. Noam -- Policies for Freedom / Ithiel de Sola Pool. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Information resources management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Information resources management. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Compaine, Benjamin M.
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Read, William H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Information resources policy handbook. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262032643 (DLC) 98048229 (OCoLC)40174880 |
| ISBN |
0585070156 (electronic book) |
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9780585070155 (electronic book) |
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0262032643 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9780262032643 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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0262270722 (electronic book) |
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9780262270724 (electronic book) |
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