Eli M. Noam Books

Exploring interconnection policy from a multidisciplinary perspective, Eli Noam delves into its historical significance and recent reforms in the U.S. and worldwide. Key topics include interconnection pricing, unbundling, and technological advancements. The book also addresses critical social and policy issues such as content flow, universal service, privacy protection, and the future landscape of telecommunications, providing a comprehensive understanding of the complexities surrounding interconnection in the digital age.

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks allow individuals to share digital content files in real time. They facilitate communication and promote community without hierarchy or strict control. This book applies economic principles to analyze and understand the P2P phenomenon. It also provides numerous contemporary examples from the US and around the world to shed light on the implications of P2P as a mass medium, considering such issues as pricing, licensing, security, and regulation.

In this posthumous work, Pool envisions how the technological revolution in communications may affect the mass media, developing countries, metropolitan centers, and individual users. He argues that the greatest benefits will come through allowing the free flow of technology and information. Less developed countries are likely to be most successful in creating their own communication industries welcoming competition. Computers, satellities, and facsimile machines will jump the boundaries of nations, states, and cities, frustrating those who would control information but bringing together and providing great benefits to those with common interests. The author sees a need to rewrite laws and regulations relating to copyright, the broadcast spectrum, and other barriers that restrict communication flow. ISBN 0-674-87263-0: $29.95

This comprehensive book examines the current state of telecommunications in the Pacific Basin. The focus is on the economic, regulatory, and social change caused by the technological evolution, marketplace developments and institutional reorganization. The overall analysis of the volume evolves around a multi-stage evolutionary model of public telecommunications networks. The first part consists of analytic articles on the evolution of telecommunication networks in the region, a comparison of deregulation policies in the different countries, and an analysis of public and private cooperation in international informatics. The second part reviews telecommunications systems in individual countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and the United States.

Success in the media business hinges on creativity, innovation, and performance, but also demands a solid grasp of management principles. This book distills key elements of a business school curriculum, applying them specifically to the media, media-tech, and digital sectors. Each chapter addresses essential management functions in an accessible manner, ensuring readers can comprehend and utilize these concepts without jargon or technical language. It's an invaluable resource for anyone looking to thrive in the evolving media landscape.

Focusing on the essentials of media management, this foundational volume is tailored for college students aspiring to succeed in the media and digital industries. It distills key business school concepts and applies them to the media, media-tech, and digital sectors. Written in a clear, accessible style, the book covers major management functions without jargon, making it an ideal resource for understanding the interplay of creativity, innovation, and performance in these dynamic fields.

Who Owns the World's Media? moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries.

In Europe, television began in a public format and public broadcasting defined the medium. But in America, public television was created to fill the programming void left by commercial TV, and has been tolerated as a belated addition rather than as an equal. For decades commercial television was controlled by three networks--ABC, NBC, and CBS--the economic imperative of which led toward entertainment. Education, by default, was served by public television, always the weaker part of the broadcast system in terms of resources and audience. Money was only part of the problem; the other was organization and vision. During the 1980s, cable television expanded rapidly, and with it, private cable channels. Public TV largely missed out on the opportunity to enter the era of multichannel television.This book examines public television today, as it stands at a major crossroad. Technologically, digitalization, multicasting, and the Internet provide a new challenge. Institutionally, the structure of the entire system is under scrutiny. And finally, its long-term funding mechanism is less certain than ever before.