Telecommunications policy and the pleasure principle |
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Authors: | Carolyn Marvin |
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Institution: | The author is Assistant Professor in The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Walnut Street C5, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3858, USA (Tel: 215-898-7041). |
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Abstract: | Most serious discussion of telecommunications policy is governed by a utilitarian framework in which the success of communications networks is measured by some criterion of productivity. This exclusive emphasis creates undesirable rigidities in large communications systems upon which industrialized societies are so dependent. An analysis of productivity constraints on the social flexibility of existing networks is offered in support of an argument for deliberately building playfulness, in line with certain modest proposals, into the organization of emerging networks of communication. |
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Keywords: | Telecommunications Social psychology Systems design |
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