Film Biography

Astaire: The Man, The Dancer by Bob Thomas (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984---$18.95)

Jean Cocteau and the French Scene, edited by Alexandra Anderson and Carol Saltus (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984---$19.95)     

Telecommunications

BEHIND THE TELEPHONE DEBATES by Carol Weinhaus and Anthony Oettinger (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988—$45.00 institutional/$27.50 personal: ISBN 0-89381-452-5)

THE NEW TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: EVOLUTION AND ORGANIZATION by Leonard S. Hyman, et al. (Public Utility Reports Inc., 1700 N. Moore St., Suite 2100, Arlington, VA 22209—price not given, two volumes: ISSN 0893-7516 and 0893-7559)

TELEPHONE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT by Lei and L. Johnson (Santa Monica , CA: Rand, 1988—price not given , paper—ask for item R-3603-NSF/MF)

National Regulatory Research Institute, four recent reports     

Pushing the boundaries of interaction in videoconferencing: A dialogical approach

Building on experiences with a group of Masters students in 1994, videoconferencing was used the following year to enhance delivery to distance education students in Hong Kong. Following six weeks intensive study on‐campus in Brisbane, students returned to their base in Hong Kong and were connected to their fellow students in Brisbane via videoconference. Employing a dialogical approach, the lecturers used these sessions to push the boundaries of videoconferencing for interactive higher order discussions.