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This volume explores the economic, social, political and cultural implications of the new technologies especially as they relate to the Caribbean area. The editor uses an interdisciplinary approach to reflect the extensive reach of the new technologies into all sectors of the global economy and society.

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Dunn's stated intent is to explore the social and cultural implications and policy and regulatory issues of the development of communications and information technologies in the Caribbean. The goal is met with varying degrees of success. Chapters on telecommunications and export information processing in Jamaica, monopoly control and policy-making telecommunications, the view of Barbadian broadcasting administrators on information and communication, and US media impact on Jamaican youth hone in on the Caribbean situation through systematic research and some critical analysis. Other chapters say very little about the Caribbean and are general enough to be in any introductory book on telecommunications. A chapter on Canadian broadcasting found its way into the wrong book. A major shortcoming is the complete lack of attention to the non-English-speaking Caribbean of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Netherlands Antilles, and Puerto Rico. Cuba, the region's largest country, deserves more than one short chapter. A sharp editor could have tightened the writing, deleted some unneeded tabular material and much Euroamerican theory, caught the grammatical and typographical errors, and helped shape the volume. As it stands, this work is useful as a starting point for much further study and analysis. Researchers; faculty. J. A. Lent Temple University