Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV - Hardcover

Hart, Jeffrey A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521826241 ISBN 13: 9780521826242

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one in the late 1980s and 1990s. Jeffrey Hart's study demonstrates how nationalism and regionalism combined with conflicting ideas over technology to produce three different and incompatible DTV standards in the U.S., Japan and Europe. The outcome has led to missed opportunities in developing new technologies. Hart's work contributes to our understanding of relations between business and government, and of competition between the world's great economic powers.

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Book Description:

In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with new digital one. Jeffrey Hart's book shows how nationalism and regionalism combined with conflicting ideas over technology to produce three different and incompatible DTV standards in the the US, Japan and Europea, an outcome which has led to missed opportunities in developing the new technologies. Hart's book contributes to our understanding of relations between business and government, and of competition between the world's great economic powers.

About the Author:

Jeffrey Hart is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has taught international politics and international political economy since 1981. His first teaching position was at Princeton University from 1973 to 1980. He was a professional staff member of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties from 1980 to 1981. Hart worked as an internal contractor at the Office of Technology Assessment of the US Congress from 1985 to 1986 and helped to write their report, 'International Competition in Services' (1987). His books include The New International Economic Order (1983), Interdependence in the Post Multilateral Era (1985), Rival Capitalists (1992), Globalization and Governance (1999), Managing New Industry Creation (2001), Technology, Television, and Competition (2004), The Politics of International Economic Relations, 7th edition (2010) and he has published scholarly articles in World Politics, International Organization, the British Journal of Political Science, New Political Economy and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521826241
• ISBN 13: 9780521826242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264