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BL
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1041390
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b795760
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| Title & Author
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--And communications for all : : a policy agenda for a new administration /\ edited by Amit M. Schejter.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, MD :: Lexington Books,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xxiv, 350 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0739134833
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: 1282494325
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: 6612494328
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: 9780739134832
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: 9781282494329
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: 9786612494321
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0739129198
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0739129201
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9780739129197
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9780739129203
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Broadband, Internet, and universal service : challenges to the social contract of the twenty-first century / Jorge Reina Schement -- Digital media, modern democracy, and our truncated national debate / Ernest J. Wilson III -- Public scholarship and the communications policy agenda / Robert W. McChesney -- International benchmarks : the crisis in U.S. communications policy through a comparative lens / Amit M. Schejter -- Competition and investment in wireline broadband / Marvin Ammori -- U.S. cable TV policy : managing the transition to broadband / Richard D. Taylor -- A spectrum policy agenda / Jon M. Peha -- The way forward for wireless / Rob Frieden -- Rethinking the media ownership policy agenda / Philip M. Napoli -- Universal service / Krishna Jayakar -- America's forgotten challenge : rural access / Sharon L. Strover -- Municipal broadband / Andrea H. Tapia -- The future of the e-rate : U.S. universal service fund support for public access and social services / Heather E. Hudson -- Public service media 2.0 / Ellen P. Goodman -- Creating a media policy agenda for the digital generation / Kathryn Montgomery -- Race and media : several key proposals for the next administration / Leonard M. Baynes.
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| Abstract
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In ... And Communications for All, 16 leading communications policy scholars present a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the new federal administration. This agenda emphasizes the potential of information technologies to improve democratic discourse, social responsibility, and the quality of life along with the means by which it can be made available to all Americans. Schejter has assembled an analysis of the reasons for the failure of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and offers an international benchmark for the future of telecommunications. Addressing a range of topic.
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Telecommunication policy-- United States.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- Media Communications.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Telecommunications.
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Telecommunication policy.
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Telekommunikationspolitik
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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384.0973
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| LC Classification
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HE7781.A75 2009eb
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| Added Entry
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Schejter, Amit M.
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