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Having all the right connections : telecommunications and rural viability
- Title
- Having all the right connections : telecommunications and rural viability / edited by Peter F. Korsching, Patricia C. Hipple, and Eric A. Abbott.
- Publication
- Westport, CT : Praeger, 2000.
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- Description
- xvi, 348 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-329) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Theory, Policy, and Practice: Setting the Stage for Rural Telecommunications. 1. Rural America and the Information and Communications Revolution / Peter F. Korsching, Patricia C. Hipple and Eric A. Abbott. 2. Policy Initiatives and Rural Telecommunications / Dom Caristi. 3. Telephone Companies: Providing All the Right Connections for Viable Rural Communities / Peter F. Korsching and Sami El-Ghamrini. 4. When Public Leadership Outperforms Private Leadership: The Case of Public Telecommunications Utilities / Montgomery Van Wart, Dianne Rahm and Scott Sanders -- Pt. II. Using Telecommunications in the Rural Community. 5. Rural Business and Telecommunications Technologies / G. Premkumar. 6. The Community Newspaper in an Online Society / Eric A. Abbott and Walter E. Niebauer, Jr. 7. Rural Libraries: Conflicting Visions and Realities in the Information Age / Eric A. Abbott and Bridget Moser Pellerin.
- 8. Municipal Governments' Use of Telecommunications: Leading the Charge or Lagging Behind? / Erin K. Schreck and Patricia C. Hipple. 9. Telecommunications: A Complex Prescription for Rural Health Care Providers / Patricia C. Hipple and Melody Ramsey. 10. Farmers, Computers, and the Internet: How Structures and Roles Shape the Information Society / Eric A. Abbott, J. Paul Yarbrough and Allan G. Schmidt -- Pt. III. Making the Connections. 11. What Happens When Information Technologies Are Forced on Rural Community Organizations? The Case of Iowa State University Extension / Eric A. Abbott and Jennifer L. Gregg. 12. Telecommunications and Economic Development: Chasing Smokestacks with the Internet / Brent Hales, Joy Gieseke and Delfino Vargas-Chanes. 13. On-Ramps and Road Blocks to the Information Superhighway / Peter F. Korsching, Eric A. Abbott and Patricia C. Hipple.
- ISBN
- 0275965821 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99086113
- OCLC
- 43245858
- ocm43245858
- SCSB-3949943
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries