edition, confronts the challenges posed by science and technology and by Australia's changing economic position. Barry Jones, the former Australian Minister for Science and current National President of the Australian Labor Party, draws on the latest data to alert readers to the need to confront key issues associated with post-industrial and information revolutions. He examines the contraction of the manufacturing industry and the rise of service employment, especially in information services. Sleepers, Wake! assesses the dilemmas and outlines a political programme to ensure that society profits from the technological revolution.brbrThis new edition of Sleepers, Wake! includes the 1991 Commonwealth census returns--striking confirmation of Barry Jones's thesis about revolutionary changes in the labor force. Sleepers, Wake! remains a landmark book, offering controversial analysis and ideas on issues shaping our lives: threats to human capacity, changing perceptions of work, relationships and society.brPrefacebrAcknowledgmentsbr1. From a Pre-Industrial to a Post-Service Societybr2. An Age of Discontinuitybr3. A New Analysis of the Labour Forcebr4. Two Types of Employment and Time Usebr5. Computers and Employmentbr6. The Employment Revolutionbr7. Education for Life (or Employment?)br8. The Information Explosion and Its Threatsbr9. Work in an Age of Automatabr10. Technological Determinism: 'But We Have No Choice'br11. What is to Be Done?brAppendix: Jones' Eight LawsbrNotesbrBibliographybrIndexbrbrBarry Jones was Australian Minister for Science 1983-90 and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Science and Technology 1989-90. A Labo@1 (õÂ?ÿ¾Û€  (less)

time, and hearing the first intimations of mortality." And what will follow TV? More TV, TV that is different and yet not all that different. In this evocative book, Edwin Diamond points out that what we see on television today closely reflects our culture and society and politics and will continue to do so. Because the country is not changing as fast as the technology, Diamond's study of television in its "prime time" is also a glimpse of much of the content of the TV of the future, whether it comes to us over the air, by cable, or by satellite.br /br /Among other topics, ISign Off /Icovers sex on television, the TV preachers of the "electronic church," the way television handled the Iranian hostage crisis, "Full Disclosure" as seen (or not seen) in the media's handling of Nelson Rockefeller s death and Ted Kennedy's reputed "womanizing," "Disco News" and Ted Turner's continuous news, the Three Mile Island reportage, the reign of the young and the white and the male on commercial television, and the twin myths of television's omnipotence and its liberalism.br /br /Although today's network-dominated, "free" television with limited channels will be superseded by cable and satellite transmissions with two-way, viewer-responsive features and add-on computer capabilities that will offer, usually for a fee, 60 to 100 channels precisely aimed at special-interest audiences, the content of TV will not be altered so much as the kinds of in-home services available.br /br /Edwin Diamond relates television to what is happening in other media, as might be expected from a writer who has spent his professional life working on newspapers and magazines in addition to being a comm?è  (less)

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Mirror" is a half-hour color film featuring interviews with TV directors, writers, an ABC executive in charge of standards and practices, a brain behavior scientist, an advertiser, and members of the viewing public. It explores TV's influence on the perception of reality and on moral values, and shows how the most isolated members of society depend on the medium. Various critical approaches to television are measured against the experiences of children, their parents, and other TV viewers. TV drama directors and writers explain the forces molding commercial TV. From its 1980 vantage point, the film surveys the changing technologies of television, and ponders how these will affect Americans in the future. "Television: ...  (less)