The Information Gap: How Computers and Other New Communication Technologies Affect the Social Distribution of Power

by George Gerbner (Editor), Marsha Siefert (Editor), Janice Fisher (Editor)

This special double issue of the Journal of Communication presents a group of studies focusing on the promises and paradoxes of the new communications technologies. It discusses how new technologies like computer networks and cable can be used to assist the groups who are so often left out of such developments - the elderly, women, minorities - and new groups who may begin to lose services like telephones and free TV that we have begun to take for granted.

232 pages, Hardcover

First published February 22, 1990