Table of Contents
Issue #1 as well as supplement added at the end.
Communication Research Trends:
The Telematics Society
vol. 2 no. 1 1981
Research Trends in Religious Communication:
The Church Faces Videotext
vol. 2 no. 1 1981
Abstract
For most of us, getting information is still a matter of seeking out some expert or a "trusted friend" . Or we pore through books, newspapers, and professional reports hoping to find the precise information we need. Now the linking of computers to a television screen promises an information revolution in our lives. Sitting in the comfort of our homes or offices with a keypad in hand, we will be able to call up on the screen literally any sort of information from any part of the world.
Like the initial stages of cinema, radio and television, the next ten years will be critical in deciding the basic formats of telematics and how this technology will fit into our lives. What will happen to libraries? What will we do with this flood of information? Will it be essentially a commercial, advertising medium more useful for the affluent? Or will it present a broad spectrum of cultural enrichment and provide social opportunity for the information poor. What about privacy, editorial control and transborder data flows ? This issue reviews research on these policy questions.
Recommended Citation
(1981)
"The Telematics Society,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol2/iss1/1