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Along with its interrelated companion volume, The Technology,
Business, and Economics of Streaming Video, this book examines the
next generation of TV-online video. It reviews the elements that
lead to online platforms and video clouds and analyzes the software
and hardware elements of content creation and interaction, and how
these elements lead to different styles of video content. What are
the models of this new content? What kind of cultural and societal
acceleration can we expect? What are the societal implications of
the next-generation media system? What problems are emerging? What
kind of market power is emerging in media industries, around the
world? And how can one deal with them? The author addresses these
questions with facts and figures, ranging across technology,
economics, communications studies, business, policy, and law. He
reviews the regulatory options, and recommends a new approach for
video media. Media professionals in academia, management,
technology, policy and creative production will value the
approachable yet thorough information presented in The Content,
Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video.
Along with its interrelated companion volume, The Content, Impact,
and Regulation of Streaming Video, this book covers the next
generation of TV-streaming online video, with details about its
present and a broad perspective on the future. It reviews the new
technical elements that are emerging, both in hardware and
software, their long-term trend, and the implications, and
discusses the emerging ''media cloud'' of video and infrastructure
platforms, and the organizational form of such TV. What kind of
companies? What kind of business models? What kind of industries?
What kind of impact on existing media? And what kind of market
power in media industries, around the world? The author addresses
these questions with facts and figures, ranging across technology,
economics, communications studies, business, policy, and law. Media
professionals in academia, management, technology, policy and
creative production will appreciate the non-jargony yet thorough
exploration of streaming online video in The Technology, Business,
and Economics of Streaming Video.
As with previous technological revolutions, innovations in the
online world have triggered transformations in the labor market and
the economy. While the Internet is trumpeted as a great job
creator, there are also downsides that need to be identified and
dealt with. The book discusses the following topics: Is the
Internet a net creator of jobs? How are job profiles changed by the
digital economy? What are the impacts on income distribution? Is it
a winner-takes-all tournament? What models can facilitate
adjustment without slowing innovation? This book features essays
from major experts in the field coming from academia, international
organizations, the private sector, and civil society. It blends
theoretical and applied research presenting results from many
countries, with particular emphasis on Europe, the USA, Canada and
Asia.
Noam's book is the first major attempt to address the complicated
economic and public policy issues of telecommunications in Europe.
He provides a thorough discussion of the evolution of central
telephone networks, equipment supply, new value-added networks, and
new telecommunications-related services in a detailed
country-by-country analysis.
Like its companion volume, Telecommunications in Europe, this book
deals with the evolution of powerful monopoly institutions in the
communications field--the public broadcasters--and the dramatic
changes that took place in the late 1980s throughout Europe, and
transformed the media landscape. It provides a comprehensive view
of European broadcasting systems, using the perspective of
economics and policy analysis. The introductory part offers a
framework for understanding media and the forces of change
affecting them. The main section is a unique series of chapters
covering the broadcast and cable television systems of almost
thirty European countries.
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