THEME

• The use and abuse of the term "Information Society"
• Promises of the information revolution.
• The limits of the Information Revolution
• The Information Society or Information Economy?
• Presentation of some major economic, technological and political issues and terms that will be used in the class

• Telecommunications Networks - Introduction
• Waves and Bandwidth, Modulation
• Digital and Analogue Networks, Switching
• The Electro-magnetic spectrum
• The Telegraph, The Telephone and the Mass Media
• The Internet, the Web and HTML

• From the Service-provision change to the Regulative State
• From the Old to the New economy
• Ideological Changes?
• Technological Changes
• Old and New Public Management

• What is Regulation?
• Examples for regulation
• Types of Regulation
• Comparative prespective on the rise of the regulatory state