The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video

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'In this two-volume tour-de-force on video, Noam nails the multi-dimensional answers to what is consumed and how it is consumed. The passage of video through programmable devices invites unconstrained transformation.' -- - Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google 'These books show how the world's most impactful medium for entertainment, information, education and marketing will evolve -- and why. No one is more qualified to project and describe the future of the media business, technology and regulation than Eli Noam. Numerous authors have chronicled the media industry's past and present, but this is the first description I've seen of where it is going and what it will look like in the future.' -- Bob Zitter, Media Technology Advisor and former HBO Chief Technology Officer 'Professor Noam sees technical advances driving dramatic change in such areas as digital video infrastructures and services, particular business models, and the reshaping of the media industry, such as around the market power of cloud video services. These developments raise major social and economic issues for regulators, such as around greater concentration. Professor Noam's insights will enable students, media scholars, practitioners and the policy community to anticipate these transformations and shape policy and practice in ways that will better serve the increasingly diverse interests of the public but also the vitality of digital age media.' -- - Emeritus Professor William H. Dutton, University of Southern California, US and Oxford University, UK 'Changing media consumers' behaviors, further advances in digital technologies and a dramatic health and economic crisis, combine to transform the media and telecommunications industries. Eli Noam's new books present us with current, comprehensive,in-depth, analyses of unprecedented dimensions. The Columbia Professor offers essential present and future industry perspectives to readers, scholars, students, managers and policy makers.' -- - Gerard Pogorel, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, CNRS Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute I3, France 'The Internet, now 50 years old, was not built for video, but today video is most of what it carries. Professor Noam does it for us again with his two volumes about the content of streaming video, in the broadest context, as next-generation television.' -- - Bob Metcalfe, Internet Pioneer, now UTAustin Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, US