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Tables of Contents for Networking Knowledge for Information Societies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of tables, figures and boxes
xiii
Prologue... Networking knowledge for information societies
xv
Chris Freeman
About...
3
14
Robin Mansell
Rohan Samarajiva
Amy Mahan
Inquiry...
17
54
Robin Mansell
Rohan Samarajiva
Amy Mahan
Universities, Research and the Public Interest
24
4
Nicholas Garnham
Universities in the Knowledge Economy
28
6
Peter Sheehan
The University, ICTs and Development in the Information Society
34
8
John B. Goddard
James Cornford
The Role of the Social Sciences in Policy Oriented Telecom Research
42
5
John Langdale
Integrating Social Sciences into Information Society Policy
47
7
Jean-Claude Burgelman
Virtual Solutions to Real Problems
54
6
Bella Mody
Challenging Orthodoxy
60
11
Liora Salter
Change...
71
80
Rohan Samarajiva
Robin Mansell
Amy Mahan
Utility Deregulation in the United States: A Critical Evaluation
79
7
Harry M. Trebing
Telecom Policy for Information Economies: Unregulation is not Enough
86
4
Aileen Amaraudos Pisciotta
The Toppling of the Natural Monopoly Doctrine
90
2
Edwin B. Parker
Never-ending International Telecommunication Union Reform
92
4
Tim Kelly
From Arctic Village to Alice Springs: Rural Telecom Myths and Realities
96
7
Heather E. Hudson
Setting the Reform Agenda: What Next, After Privatisation?
103
6
Marcio Wohlers de Almeida
Ricardo Tavares
Policy and Regulatory Challenges of Access and Affordability
109
6
Alison Gillwald
Technical Aspects of Rural Telecom
115
3
Rudi Westerveld
Carleen F. Maitland
Spectrum Management: Private Property Rights or Commons
118
5
Johannes M. Bauer
Spectrum Allocation Controversies
123
4
Martin Cave
3G Auctions: A Change of Course
127
5
John Ure
A Competitive Market Approach to Interconnection Payments
132
9
David Gabel
Multi-Utility Regulation: Yet Another Convergence?
141
10
Jens C. Arnhak
Next...
151
72
Robin Mansell
Rohan Samarajiva
Amy Mahan
Information Society Revisited: PICTuring the Information Society
160
6
Ian Miles
Falling Behind on ICT Adoption Indicators: Can We Afford This?
166
8
John W. Houghton
Information Societies: Towards a More Useful Concept
174
5
Knud Erik Skoub
Evolving the Information Society in the Caribbean: The Paradox of Orderliness
179
5
Roderick Sanatan
Revealing the Ties that Bind: Property and Propriety in the Information Age
184
4
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Information Age
188
7
Peter S. Anderson
Technology Determinism, the State and Telecom Surveillance
195
7
Peter Shields
Opportunities and Risks for India in the Knowledge Society
202
5
B. P. Sanjay
Infrastructure Development and the Digital Divide in Asia
207
5
Meheroo Jussawalla
Linking Information, Technologies and the Consumer Interest
212
4
Supriya Singh
Theses on Information
216
7
Jorg Becker
Bias...
223
48
Rohan Samarajiva
Robin Mansell
Amy Mahan
C is for Convergence (and Communication, Content, and Competition)
228
4
Sally Wyatt
Knowledge or `Know-less' Societies
232
7
Paschal Preston
When More is Less: Time, Space and Knowledge in Information Societies
239
6
Edward Comor
The Telecom-Economy Nexus: Innis and Du Boff Revisited
245
4
Cho, Sung Woon
Back to the Future of the Internet: The Printing Press
249
5
Ang, Peng Hwa
James A. Dewar
The `Information Economy', Economics, and Ecology
254
6
Robert E. Babe
Bridging the Gap: Processes of Communication and Institutions of Political Economy
260
5
Vincent Mosco
Concrete Analyses Versus Abstract Deduction
265
6
Anders Henten
What...
271
64
Amy Mahan
Robin Mansell
Rohan Samarajiva
Regulation and the Ethics of Distance: Distance and the Ethics of Regulation
279
7
Roger Silverstone
In Search of the `Shared Moment'
286
6
Anthony Smith
Global Media and Cultural Diversity
292
6
Gaetan Tremblay
Media Ownership -- Does It Matter?
298
5
Werner A. Meier
Latin American Media: A Long View of Politics and Markets
303
8
Elizabeth Fox
Silvio Waisbord
Towards an Information Society: The Need for a Policy Perspective
311
4
Binod C. Agrawal
Media Policy and the Public Interest
315
5
Marc Raboy
Radical Media Projects and the Crisis of Public Media
320
8
John D. H. Downing
Towards a World System Perspective on Cross-National Web Research
328
7
Joseph Turow
Rivka Ribak
Epilogue... Economics of Infrastructures: The Ultimate Challenge?
335
8
Rolf W. Kunneke
Notes
343
2
Bibliography
345
34
Acronyms
379
4
Contributors
383
18
Author Index
401