Research Catalog

Title

The Information explosion : the new electronic media in Japan and Europe / edited by Mick McLean.

Publication

London : F. Pinter, 1985.

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Additional Authors

McLean, Mick.

Description

xiv, 130 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Research papers on the development and application of electronics- based mass media (information technology) in France, Germany, Federal Republic, Japan and the UK - presents forecasts of Japanese economic development; examines experiments with Videotex and telematics services, optical fibre systems, communications satellites, etc.; discusses social implications for employment, family life and the quality of life; includes comparisons between the approaches of Japan, EC countries and the USA towards the use of electronic media. Diagrams, graphs, map.

Subject

• Telecommunication
• Information networks
• Videotex systems
• Telecommunications

Genre/Form

• graph.
• map.
• research paper.
• carte géographique.
• étude de recherche.
• graphique.
• estudio de investigación.
• gráfico.
• mapa.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Japan and Asia in the year 2000 / Saburo Okita -- The United Kingdom experience of viewdata / Frank Burgess -- Optical fibre systems tests in the German Federal Republic / Manfred Lange -- Telematics / François Henrot -- The socio-economic role of the new electronic media / Hiroshi Miyakawa -- Is the general public in Europe ready to accept videotex? / Hans Gassmann -- Family life in the new media era / Shigetomo Yui -- The new media and Japan's Information Network System / Tadasu Murakami -- A new era of information networks / Mamoru Mitsugi -- Computer and communication technologies for the information society / Yasuo Kato -- Satellite broadcasting in Japan / Tsutomu Okada.

ISBN

0861875354

LCCN

^^^89186680^

OCLC

• 20453273
• SCSB-11092724

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library