Progress in Communication Sciences: Volume 15, Advances in Telecommunications

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Advances in Telecommunications is an ambitious attempt to define the parameters of the field. It offers an array of ten solid academic papers, judiciously selected to display the richness and quality of social research that has been inspired by telecommunications....Advances in Telecommunications provides a useful survey of various types of social research on telecommunications that might be put to good use as a seminar text in social science-oriented graduate programmes.-Telecommunications Policy
"Advances in Telecommunications is an ambitious attempt to define the parameters of the field. It offers an array of ten solid academic papers, judiciously selected to display the richness and quality of social research that has been inspired by telecommunications....Advances in Telecommunications provides a useful survey of various types of social research on telecommunications that might be put to good use as a seminar text in social science-oriented graduate programmes."-Telecommunications Policy

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HARMEET SAWHNEY is Associate Professor at the Department of Telecommunications Indiana University, Bloomington. GEORGE A. BARNETT is Professor of Communication at the State University of New York at Buffalo./e He has written numerous articles and conference papers on organizational, political, mass and intercultural communication, as well as, information systems and the diffusion of communication technologies. His current research deals with internationl information flows and the process of globalization, focusing primarily on telecommunication.