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Communication Technology Update

Name: Communication Technology Update
Author: August E. Grant
ISBN: 9780240808819

by August E. E. Grant, August E. Grant, Jennifer H. Meadows

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Valuable reference for Communication/Broadcast professionals and students.
Single source for the latest developments, trends, and issues in communication technology.
Companion home page

The latest edition of this review of the state-of-the-art in communication technologies is more comprehensive than ever before. The text continues to provide users with the latest information in all areas of telecommunication: electronic mass media, computers, consumer electronics, satellites, and telephony. New chapters for the sixth edition cover print technologies, electronic mail, and personal communication devices, in addition to the comprehensive coverage of two dozen technologies explored in the previous edition. Information on similar technologies has been concentrated into a smaller number of chapters to make it easier to compare history, revenues, technical descriptions, and user information across technologies. This revision includes a more comprehensive companion home page on the World Wide Web that provides updated information submitted by chapter authors. The Communication Technology Update Home Page (http://www.tfi.com/ctu/) also offers links to other Internet resources, as well as a listing of trade organizations and trade publications covering all areas of communication technology.

As we enter the 21st Century, new communication technologies are being introduced at an astonishing rate. Making sense of these technologies is becoming more difficult. Communication Technology Update is the single source for the latest developments, trends, and issues in communication technology. Now in its sixth edition, Communication Technology Update has become an indispensable information resource for business, government, and academia. The sixth edition of Communication Technology Update also includes a Statistical Abstract of Communication Technologies, providing year-by-year statistics on dozens of communication technologies, as well as a complete glossary.

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Twenty-six chapters review recent developments in electronic mass media, computers and consumer electronics, and telephony and satellite technologies. The seventh edition adds coverage of Internet commerce, streaming media, and home networking. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author, August E. Grant

Dr. August E. ("Augie") Grant is Senior Consultant for Focus 25 Research &Consulting, advising technology companies on strategies for introducing newtechnologies. Grant is a technology futurist who specializes in research onnew media technologies and consumer behavior, with a specialty inintegrating both quantitative and qualitative research to provide a richunderstanding of consumer behavior. Grant has been published in virtuallyevery major academic journal in the communication field, and hispublications deal with adoption and use of emerging communicationtechnologies, broadband services, audience behavior, and theories of newmedia.

Jennifer H. Meadows is Associate Professor in the Media Arts Option of the Department of Communication Design at California State University, Chico. She earned her M.A.in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. Her teaching and research integrate practical and theoretical concerns related to television production, the relationships between media and users, and changing media behavior in the new media marketplace. In addition to her teaching and research, she is Executive Producer for Milk Crate Productions and is a consultant to media organizations.