Deciphering Cyberspace
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Deciphering Cyberspace: Making the Most of Digital Communication Technology, a collection of new chapters by media experts, social-psychologists, and legal scholars, lucidly explores the modern digital information revolution with one goal: to demystify digital communication technology. By examining its subject matter from the three perspectives of technology, markets, and policy, Deciphering Cyberspace provides an impressively comprehensive view of the technical nature of cyberspace, its social impact, and legal significance for individuals, institutions, and society. Marrying the broad social and psychological impact of technology to the personal, this text goes beyond mere operation of technology and illuminates how systems work.
This text is recommended for courses examining digital media communication in mass media, communication technology, and telecommunications. Deciphering Cyberspace is a must-have volume for anyone interested in keeping connected and learning about the ever-changing world of technology in our increasingly mediated world.
Contents
PART I: TECHNOLOGY
- 1. Radio and Television Broadcasting
- Broadcasting in America
- The Basics of Electromagnetic Radiation
- From Radio to Television Transmission
- The Expanded Video System
- Cyberinterview: Michael Young
- 2. Computers in Communication: Concepts and Application
- The Language of Binary Code
- The Move Toward Machine Calculation
- Conceptual Foundations
- From Theory to Practice
- ASCII: Why 1 Is a Beautiful Number in the Computer Industry
- Capturing Sound with Binary Code
- Capturing Images
- Standard Computer Architecture
- Modern Computers
- Chip Manufacturing
- Cyberinterview: Dan Birenbaum
- 3. Sending Messages Across the Network
- Connecting Users: Access
- From Analog to Digital Transmission
- Growth of Telecommunications Network
- Cellular Telephony
- Cyberinterview: Charles Ehlin
PART II: MARKETS
- 4. Children in Cyberspace
- The Child/Internet Interface
- Intellectual Development
- Internet and the Social World
- Identity Formation and the Internet
- 5. Social and Psychological Uses of the Internet
- Who Uses the Internet?
- When the Web Resembles the Real World
- Re-creating Identity
- What is the True Self? Online and Offline
- Emergence and Complexity
- Cyberinterview: Marvin Kane
- 6. Connected Learning in the Information Age
- The Infrastructure of Education
- The Unique Qualities of Digital Media
- Administrative Challenges
- Cyberinterview: Rick Marx
- 7. Adopting Instructional Technologies
- Brief Overview
- Assessing the Impact of Instructional Technologies
- The Promise of Instructional Technologies
- Challenges Facing Administrators
PART III: POLICY
- 8. Law and Regulation, Part I: Individual Interests
- Freedom of Expression
- Constitutional Right to Privacy
- Copyrights
- Epilogue
- 9. Law and Regulation, Part II: Business Interests
- Trademarks
- Jurisdiction
- Defamation
- Epilogue
Appendix A: US Radio Spectrum Allocations and Uses
Appendix A: US Radio Spectrum Allocations and Uses
Description
Deciphering Cyberspace: Making the Most of Digital Communication Technology, a collection of new chapters by media experts, social-psychologists, and legal scholars, lucidly explores the modern digital information revolution with one goal: to demystify digital communication technology. By examining its subject matter from the three perspectives of technology, markets, and policy, Deciphering Cyberspace provides an impressively comprehensive view of the technical nature of cyberspace, its social impact, and legal significance for individuals, institutions, and society. Marrying the broad social and psychological impact of technology to the personal, this text goes beyond mere operation of technology and illuminates how systems work.
This text is recommended for courses examining digital media communication in mass media, communication technology, and telecommunications. Deciphering Cyberspace is a must-have volume for anyone interested in keeping connected and learning about the ever-changing world of technology in our increasingly mediated world.
Contents
PART I: TECHNOLOGY
- 1. Radio and Television Broadcasting
- Broadcasting in America
- The Basics of Electromagnetic Radiation
- From Radio to Television Transmission
- The Expanded Video System
- Cyberinterview: Michael Young
- 2. Computers in Communication: Concepts and Application
- The Language of Binary Code
- The Move Toward Machine Calculation
- Conceptual Foundations
- From Theory to Practice
- ASCII: Why 1 Is a Beautiful Number in the Computer Industry
- Capturing Sound with Binary Code
- Capturing Images
- Standard Computer Architecture
- Modern Computers
- Chip Manufacturing
- Cyberinterview: Dan Birenbaum
- 3. Sending Messages Across the Network
- Connecting Users: Access
- From Analog to Digital Transmission
- Growth of Telecommunications Network
- Cellular Telephony
- Cyberinterview: Charles Ehlin
PART II: MARKETS
- 4. Children in Cyberspace
- The Child/Internet Interface
- Intellectual Development
- Internet and the Social World
- Identity Formation and the Internet
- 5. Social and Psychological Uses of the Internet
- Who Uses the Internet?
- When the Web Resembles the Real World
- Re-creating Identity
- What is the True Self? Online and Offline
- Emergence and Complexity
- Cyberinterview: Marvin Kane
- 6. Connected Learning in the Information Age
- The Infrastructure of Education
- The Unique Qualities of Digital Media
- Administrative Challenges
- Cyberinterview: Rick Marx
- 7. Adopting Instructional Technologies
- Brief Overview
- Assessing the Impact of Instructional Technologies
- The Promise of Instructional Technologies
- Challenges Facing Administrators
PART III: POLICY
- 8. Law and Regulation, Part I: Individual Interests
- Freedom of Expression
- Constitutional Right to Privacy
- Copyrights
- Epilogue
- 9. Law and Regulation, Part II: Business Interests
- Trademarks
- Jurisdiction
- Defamation
- Epilogue
Appendix A: US Radio Spectrum Allocations and Uses
Appendix A: US Radio Spectrum Allocations and Uses
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Deciphering Cyberspace
Making the Most of Digital Communication Technology
October 2002 | 440 pages | Sage US
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Deciphering Cyberspace: Making the Most of Digital Communication Technology, a collection of new chapters by media experts, social-psychologists, and legal scholars, lucidly explores the modern digital information revolution with one goal: to demystify digital communication technology. By examining its subject matter from the three perspectives of technology, markets, and policy, Deciphering Cyberspace provides an impressively comprehensive view of the technical nature of cyberspace, its social impact, and legal significance for individuals, institutions, and society. Marrying the broad social and psychological impact of technology to the personal, this text goes beyond mere operation of technology and illuminates how systems work.
This text is recommended for courses examining digital media communication in mass media, communication technology, and telecommunications. Deciphering Cyberspace is a must-have volume for anyone interested in keeping connected and learning about the ever-changing world of technology in our increasingly mediated world.
Table Of Contents:
- PART I: TECHNOLOGY
- 1. Radio and Television Broadcasting
- Broadcasting in America
- The Basics of Electromagnetic Radiation
- From Radio to Television Transmission
- The Expanded Video System
- Cyberinterview: Michael Young
- 2. Computers in Communication: Concepts and Application
- The Language of Binary Code
- The Move Toward Machine Calculation
- Conceptual Foundations
- From Theory to Practice
- ASCII: Why 1 Is a Beautiful Number in the Computer Industry
- Capturing Sound with Binary Code
- Capturing Images
- Standard Computer Architecture
- Modern Computers
- Chip Manufacturing
- Cyberinterview: Dan Birenbaum
- 3. Sending Messages Across the Network
- Connecting Users: Access
- From Analog to Digital Transmission
- Growth of Telecommunications Network
- Cellular Telephony
- Cyberinterview: Charles Ehlin
- PART II: MARKETS
- 4. Children in Cyberspace
- The Child/Internet Interface
- Intellectual Development
- Internet and the Social World
- Identity Formation and the Internet
- 5. Social and Psychological Uses of the Internet
- Who Uses the Internet?
- When the Web Resembles the Real World
- Re-creating Identity
- What is the True Self? Online and Offline
- Emergence and Complexity
- Cyberinterview: Marvin Kane
- 6. Connected Learning in the Information Age
- The Infrastructure of Education
- The Unique Qualities of Digital Media
- Administrative Challenges
- Cyberinterview: Rick Marx
- 7. Adopting Instructional Technologies
- Brief Overview
- Assessing the Impact of Instructional Technologies
- The Promise of Instructional Technologies
- Challenges Facing Administrators
- PART III: POLICY
- 8. Law and Regulation, Part I: Individual Interests
- Freedom of Expression
- Constitutional Right to Privacy
- Copyrights
- Epilogue
- 9. Law and Regulation, Part II: Business Interests
- Trademarks
- Jurisdiction
- Defamation
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: US Radio Spectrum Allocations and Uses