This book is the result of a transatlantic collaboration between the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and the European Institute for the Media (EIM). Also participating was the Center for Global Communications at the International University of Japan (GLOCOM). The aim was to look at the advent of widely available individual broadband internet communications and its impact on a new stage in the development of television: Internet television. This global approach produced a broad range of focused, in-depth discussions covering many important issues. The commissioned research papers, collected and edited for this book, provide many insights and much information on Internet television. This book benefited greatly from the research and.
