...Stephan Oliver Görland; Sigrid Kannengießer Purpose This paper aims to unfold and emphasise the relevance of sustainability and time as research topics in media and communication research and discusses the relation of both phenomena with a focus on processes of media appropriation and media...

...Milton Mueller Knopf . The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires . 2010 . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Information policy Telecommunication Communication Tim Wu, a law professor at New York's Columbia University...

... to be part of that re‐thinking. Design/methodology/approach Questions addressed include: Should we move to a focus on universal access to communications infrastructure, allowing consumers to dictate preferred services? Since access to the full range of NGN services, including VoIP, requires...

... across a wide range of communication and cultural practices. Design/methodology/approach Taking a political economy of communication approach, a different view of public service is adopted as one that understands service as facilitating the making of communication and culture. The paper uses...

... of the field study, particularly three focus cases of mobile professionals, are briefly presented. Finally, the analysis of the results and some implications for a new design of professional work and technology use are discussed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Mobile communication...