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The role of information in well-being the concept of information well-being and its framework.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The role of information in well-being the concept of information well-being and its framework./
Author:	Cui, Jian.
Description:	247 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-04A(E).
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3647434
ISBN:	9781321402254

The role of information in well-being the concept of information well-being and its framework.
Cui, Jian.

The role of information in well-being the concept of information well-being and its framework. - 247 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2014.

The performance of the telephone/telecommunications industry has interested scholars, as well as policy-makers, for decades. Since the privatization of British Telecom and the divesture of AT&T until the late 1990s, the focus had been on the impact of telecommunications reforms, i.e., privatization, introduction of competition, liberalization and establishment of independent regulatory agencies, on the industry's performance in terms of network coverage, affordability and accessibility of primarily voice-based telecommunications services, and the efficiency of networks. However, since the mid-1990s, the attention has been gradually but steadily drawn elsewhere. In the wake of the recognition of the digital divide and the revival of the concept of the Information Society, more efforts have been put into research on the newly emerging "information industry", which combines the traditional telecommunications industry and various new information services. Research on measuring the Information Society has advanced slowly, on account of the insufficient amount of available data. Nonetheless, time has remedied this. In the past decade, a huge amount of data have been collected, and in order to exploit this data, index systems which are aimed to measure the Information Society have been devised by many national and international institutions, most of whose headquarters are based in Europe. These indices, to some extent, have taken advantage of the data, and have been able to produce preliminary results that countries can use to locate their relative standing in the world. However, they are hardly useful or helpful in setting measurable and reachable targets and pointing out a clear direction which future development of the industry should follow. A close examination of the current indices further reveals that leaving what is to be measured undefined and lacking a theoretical foundation and methodological rigidness has undermined the capability and value of these indices.

ISBN: 9781321402254Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

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