The Internet Challenge to Television

by Bruce M. Owen

Book Overview

After a half-century of glacial creep, television technology has begun to change at the same dizzying pace as computer software. What this will mean--for television, for computers, and for the popular culture where these video media reign supreme--is the subject of this timely book. A noted communications economist, Bruce Owen supplies the essential background: a grasp of the economic history of the television industry and of the effects of technology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674872991
• ISBN13: 9780674872998
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"