Closed Captioning: Subtitling,Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television,by Gregory J. Downey. Baltimore,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 400 pp. $52.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0801887109

Abstract

Advances in computer hardware and software have allowed information technology to penetrate into and firmly establish itself within our society. The technology affects the performance of our organizations, how we perform our jobs, and how we conduct our everyday lives. Beyond our borders, the. technology has debatable value to developing countries and has most certainly aroused conflicts between nations with respect to trade and broadcasting. This paper overviews prospects and associated problems of information technology from four viewpoints: economic, organizational, sociological, and political.