New Communications Technologies

New Communication Technologies, Fourth Edition, provides vital information on the new and emerging technologies that will shape the way communicators do business in a rapidly changing world. In addition to the technological background on computers, information storage, fiber optics, and desktop video, the reader will discover the social and economic ramifications of these technologies. As technological convergence continues to accelerate, it will be more and more important for the communications professional to be on top of these rapidly changing technologies.


New to this edition are chapters on information services (the internet and the world wide web), wireless communications, email and privacy, the new technologies and the first amendment. The book also includes coverage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Michael M.A. Mirabito is Chair of Communications at Marywood College in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is a teacher and consultant in the new communications technologies and has written a book about video cameras on NASA's space probes.

Barbara Morgenstern is a professor at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithica College in New York and specializes in teaching media law.


Completely revised and reorganized.
Includes chapters on all of the newest technologies.
New discussion on the legal and social implications of these new technologies.