This chapter examines the impacts of the digital economy on employment, the drivers of change, and the options to alleviate the emerging problems. The digital economy was supposed to replace and enhance industrial jobs, but it has also accelerated the outmigration of blue-collar and service...

Contents: 1. Introduction: The Impending Media Revolution in Video Technology and its Impacts on Today's and Tomorrow's Media Industries -- 2. The Past Generations of TV Technology -- 3. Technology Innovation: Hardware -- 4. Infrastructure Platforms and Data Operations -- 5. Video Platforms --...

Contents: 1. Introduction: The Impending Revolution in Video Technology and its Impact on Media Content and Regulation -- 2. The Three Generations of TV -- 3. The Dynamics of Content -- 4. New-Style Content -- 5. Market Power in Cloud Video -- 6. Societal Impacts -- 7. Regulating Online 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...

The issue of costing and pricing in the telecommunications industry has been hotly debated for the last twenty years and we are still wrestling over the cost of the local exchange for access by interexchange and competitive local exchange carriers, as well as for universal service funding. With...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Communications and the Changing Environment -- Part II. Satellites, Computers, and Global Relations -- Part III. Ecology, Culture, and Communications Technology -- Notes -- Index

Introduction by Eli M. Noam, Lorenzo Maria Pupillo, Johann J. Kranz -- Smart Metering, Smart Grids, Smart Market Design by Matthias Kurth -- Broadband ICT and Smart Grids: A Win-Win Approach by Stefano Nocentini, Roberto Gavazzi, Lorenzo Maria Pupillo -- Greener and Smarter: Information...