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Deciphering Cyberspace
Making the Most of Digital Communication Technology
- Leonard Shyles - Villanova University, USA
December 2002 | 440 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Deciphering Cyberspace has one goal: to demystify digital communication technology. By examining its subject matter from the three perspectives of technology, markets, and policy, Deciphering Cyberspace provides an impressively comprehensive view of the technical nature of cyberspace, its social impact, and legal significance for individuals, institutions, and society.
The book: offers complete coverage of key topics while leaving room for variations in approach; contains interviews with experts in their fields; and covers a broad scope of material in a simple, clear fashion.
Deciphering Cyberspace is a must have volume for anyone interested in keeping connected in our increasingly mediated world.
PART I: TECHNOLOGY
Leonard Shyles
1. Radio and Television Broadcasting
Leonard Shyles
2. Computers in Communication: Concepts and Application
Leonard Shyles
3. Sending Messages Across the Network
PART II: MARKETS
Mark R. Banschick and Josepha S. Banschick
4. Children in Cyberspace
JoAnn Magdoff and Jeffrey B. Rubin
5. Social and Psychological Uses of the Internet
Thomas McCain and Leigh Maxwell
6. Connected Learning in the Information Age
Judy C. Pearson
7. Adopting Instructional Technologies
PART III: POLICY
Keith Lee and Janessa Light
8. Law and Regulation, Part I: Individual Interests
Janessa Light and Katherine Neikirk
9. Law and Regulation, Part II: Business Interests
Appendix A: US Radio Spectrum Allocations and Uses
The broad approach doesn't enable the kind of detail I want students to access as a supplementary reader. It's a competitive market out there and unfortunately this book has aged somewhat.
Dept of Psychology & Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University
September 14, 2010
