Martin R. Hilbert

Jorge Katz

The histories of baseball and country music ran in parallel tracks through most of the twentieth century. America's sport and America's music moved from the fringes to the mainstream, gaining exposure and building heroes, first via radio broadcasts and then on the television screen. Both evolved with American society through wartime, the Civil Rights movement, and into the age of multimillion dollar superstars. Don Cusic offers an engaging and insightful analysis that addresses race, gender, class, ethnicity, business practices and marketing, performance, media, and the cult of celebrity.

Toward a Conceptual Framework and Public Policy Agenda for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Jorge M. Katz

Martin Hilbert

Regional Preparatory Ministerial Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Summit on the Information Society (2003 : Bávaro, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic)

This publication studies the way information technology can be used to achieve broader developmental goals and integrate the region into the global information society. It addresses three main questions: what kind of information society is desirable; what are the specific regional traits of the move towards an information society; what policies are needed to support the transition. The book also contains the text of the Bavaro Declaration, which lays out some guiding principles.

Road Maps Towards an Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper aims to lay a wide-ranging base for untangling the digital economy, in order to facilitate and moderate the high-speed evolution and create an awareness of the new economic coherence. It attempts to show the differences between industrial and digital economics. It finds that old models based on methods of traditional industrial economics still provide a stable framework for analysis of the new age economy whilst also highlighting the need for future refocusing.

Martin R. Hilbert

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