Description: -- The latest on new applications and technological trends in communications
-- Expanded legal discussions, exploring the First Amendment, Copyright, and Encryption
-- Contemporary issues like E-business, and convergence
-- A newly up-dated website. Provides thorough coverage of social implications of technological change

New Communication Technologies, Fourth Edition, provides vital information on the new and emerging technologies that will shape the way communicators do business in a rapidly changing world. In addition to technological background on computers, information storage, fiber optics, mobile communications and digital television, the reader will discover the social and economic ramifications of these evolving technologies. As technological convergence continues to accelerate, it will be more and more important for communications professionals to be on top of these rapidly changing technologies and their impact on society.

While exploring the underlying concepts that drive technological change, New Communications Technologies, 4E, focuses on the latest and most important trends. This text includes chapters on information services (the internet and the world wide web), wireless communications, email and privacy, the new technologies, the first amendments. The book also covers the telecommunications Act of 1996 and more coverage of satellites and launch systems.

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