كتاب
Economics of information technology and the media
| العنوان: | Economics of information technology and the media |
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| المؤلفون: | Low, Linda. |
| بيانات النشر: | Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : Singapore : World Scientific ; Singapore University Press, c2000. |
| سنة النشر: | 2000 |
| وصف مادي: | xvii, 335 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Information technology -- Economic aspects., Information technology -- Governmental policy., Mass media -- Economic aspects., Mass media policy., Telecommunication., Telecommunication equipment industry., Computer industry. |
| الوصف: | "This book has been specially written to provide an economics framework for analysing the nature and scope, as well as issues, pertaining to the new information and communication technology and revolution. It also presents some trends and perspectives from the Asia-Pacific region. The book will be useful to students, researchers and policy-makers in mass communication, information technology and the media."--Jacket. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | The economics of information -- Overview of information technology and the media -- A revolution in information and communications technology -- The nature and scope of information technology and the media -- The measurement of information and services -- Basic economic principles and concepts -- The laws of demand and supply -- Elasticity measures -- Indifference Curves -- Budget Lines -- Price effects -- Cost, revenue and profit -- Scale and economies -- Economies of scope -- Productivity -- Public goods and externalities -- Market structure and competition -- Market structure -- Perfect competition -- Oligopoly -- Monopoly -- Public policy and competition -- Who's who in competition -- Players and markets in information technology and the media -- Information technology and media markets -- Terminology and etymology of the mass media -- The telecommunications industry -- The computer industry -- The broadcast industry -- Broadcast television -- Cable and satellite television -- Radio -- Recording and motion pictures -- Newspapers -- Government intervention and regulation -- The theory of a public good -- The principal-agent theory -- Approaches to intervention -- State-owned enterprises -- Information as a public good -- The role of government information and the media -- Information technology, labour and employment -- New economics -- The economic impact on work -- Human resource development -- Technology and the market -- Technological trends and developments -- Technological convergence -- The architecture of computer technology -- The economics of networks and social capital -- Information management -- The nature of information management -- Reengineering -- Business process reengineering -- Learning organisations -- Tools for information management -- Public policy and the global economy -- National information policy -- A framework for a National Information Policy -- National information infrastructure -- Problems and issues -- Information technology and the media in the global economy -- Global information infrastructure -- International trade in services -- The general agreement on trade in services -- Global trade in telecommunications -- Issues in media and information economics -- Equity -- Privacy -- The legal and regulatory environment -- Socio-political issues -- Information technology in the Asia-Pacific -- Trends and applications in the Asia-Pacific -- Geographic shifts in the electronics industry -- Singapore's national information infrastructure -- Malaysia's national information infrastructure -- Hong Kong's national information infrastructure -- Comparative analysis and issues in the rest of Asia -- Conclusion and policy implications. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm43494012 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-981-02-3844-5 978-981-02-3843-8 981-02-3844-4 981-02-3843-6 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-332) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.008468272.8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9789810238445 9789810238438 9810238444 9810238436 |
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