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The People's Right To Know - Media, Democracy, and the Information Highway (Paperback)
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The People's Right To Know - Media, Democracy, and the Information Highway (Paperback)
Series: LEA Telecommunications Series
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This important volume presents the pros and cons of a national
service that will meet the information needs and wants of all
people. In the preface, Everette E. Dennis, Executive Director of
The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, asks, "What will a true
information highway -- where most citizens enjoy a wide range of
information services on demand -- do to local communities,
government, and business entities, other units of society and
democracy itself?"
It is no longer a question of whether a vastly expanded
"information highway" will be built in America. Telephone and cable
companies have already inaugurated their plans, and government will
most likely incorporate such plans into the economic development
policy of the late 1990s. The key questions remaining are: Who will
pay for it? and Whom exactly will it serve? "The People's Right to
Know" suggests that serving the everyday citizen should be the main
objective of any national initiatives in this area. It counsels
that evolving electronic services are new communications media that
should be deployed with a main focus on the public's needs,
interests, and desires.
If advances in the nation's public telephone network will make
information services as easy to use as ordinary voice calls, or
newspapers promise vast new electronic services awaiting their
readers, more attention must also be devoted to the information
needs and wants of everyday citizens. In our increasingly
multicultural and technology-driven society, enormous inequities
exist across America's socioeconomic classes regarding access to
information critical to everyday life. If an information highway is
to be effective, we need to ensure that all Americans have access
to it; its design must start with the everyday citizen. This
powerful new medium at our disposal must consider policy that
includes attempts to close the information gap among our citizens.
It must ensure equal access to data regarding job, education, and
health information services; legal information on such topics as
immigration; and transactional services that offer assistance on
such routine but time-consuming tasks as renewing a driver's
license or registering to vote.
Media and telecommunications professionals, communication
scholars, and policymakers, including two former chairmen of the
Federal Communications Commission, provide insights and pointed
commentary on the nature and shape of an information highway
designed as a new public medium aimed at serving a wide range of
public needs. Their work should improve our basis for deciding if
there are means by which an enhanced public telecommunications
network can benefit the everyday working American.
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