DocumentCode :
3449875
Title :
To infinity and beyond: rhetorical methods in telecommunications economic policy discourse
Author :
Li, Ann Z.
Author_Institution :
Intelligence Eng., Southington, CT, USA
fYear :
1996
fDate :
21-22 Jun 1996
Firstpage :
419
Lastpage :
427
Abstract :
Proposes an interdisciplinary contribution to policy analysis, with particular emphasis on the political economy of the new telecommunications. The rhetorical tropes produced by technical expertise and public decision-making suggest that new forms of policy analysis match the economic analysis challenges presented by telematics. Such policy analysis characterizes the commodity forms ranging from interactive television program content to electronic postal messages and cannot be reduced to price data. Terms such as `cyberspace´ and `National Information Infrastructure´ become important rhetorical figures in analyzing an information market that is not merely an exchange mechanism but a forum for policy persuasion. This paper examines some of the recent public and private sector policy debates regarding electromagnetic spectrum auctions and their bandwidth implications for the development of new territorial conceptions of market area. The debate over externalities should be seen as one where the problems of bargaining and negotiation are economic games which do not simply reflect individualism or transaction costs but also become complex socially constructed problems in communication
Keywords :
economics; electronic messaging; frequency allocation; government policies; information networks; interactive television; socio-economic effects; technical presentation; telecommunication; National Information Infrastructure; bandwidth implications; bargaining; commodity forms; cyberspace; electromagnetic spectrum auctions; electronic postal messages; exchange mechanism; individualism; information market; interactive television program content; market area; negotiation; policy analysis; policy persuasion; political economy; private sector policy debates; public decision-making; public sector policy debates; rhetorical methods; socially constructed problems; technical expertise; telecommunications economic policy discourse; telematics; territorial conceptions; transaction costs; Bandwidth; Consumer electronics; Costs; Decision making; Electromagnetic spectrum; Game theory; H infinity control; Information analysis; TV; Telematics;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Technology and Society Technical Expertise and Public Decisions, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Princeton, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3345-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ISTAS.1996.541179
Filename :
541179
Link To Document :
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