China's economic and social progress toward modernization is one of the defining features of the last quarter of the 20th century. The emergence of China coincides with another development of equally important international implications--the revolution in information and telecommunication technology. But how compatible are the new China and the information age? The Chinese government intends to embrace market-oriented economic development while maintaining centralized control over politics, culture, and public discourse. The contradictions and tensions of this goal are especially acute in...
China's economic and social progress toward modernization is one of the defining features of the last quarter of the 20th century. The emergence of...
China's economic and social progress toward modernization is one of the defining features of the last quarter of the 20th century. The emergence of China coincides with another development of equally important international implications--the revolution in information and telecommunication technology. But how compatible are the new China and the information age? The Chinese government intends to embrace market-oriented economic development while maintaining centralized control over politics, culture, and public discourse. The contradictions and tensions of this goal are especially acute in...
China's economic and social progress toward modernization is one of the defining features of the last quarter of the 20th century. The emergence of...
Computerization has generated dra-matic advances In telecommunica-tions, such as mobile telephones and video conferencing. Coupled with this are major changes in regulation, as telephone companies face new compet-itors. States are experimenting with new forms of utility regulation and de-regulation in order to cope with the demands of rising competition. Here Mueller examines in detail the results of a radical telephone regulation law.
In 1986, the state of Nebraska com-pletely discarded traditional utility reg-ulation, deregulating rates and profits of its local telephone...
Computerization has generated dra-matic advances In telecommunica-tions, such as mobile telephones and video conferencing. Coupled with this are m...
-In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.- Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School
-There have been political and economic interests to 'Balkanize' the Internet as we know it for a quarter of a century. Muellers razor-sharp arguments help us to understand the dimension of the challenge.- Wolfgang KleinwAchter, University of Aarhus
The Internet has united the world as never before....
-In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understan...
-In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.- Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School
-There have been political and economic interests to 'Balkanize' the Internet as we know it for a quarter of a century. Muellers razor-sharp arguments help us to understand the dimension of the challenge.- Wolfgang KleinwAchter, University of Aarhus
The Internet has united the world as never before....
-In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understan...
