Eli M Noam
Biographic Data
| ID | 1456016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eli M Noam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eli M |
| FAMILY NAME | Noam |
| SIGNATURE | NOAM E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6110-4108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Are Media? A Hedonic Model for the Second Digital Convergence
Key questions for media scholarship hinge on defining its object: What are media today? What are media industries and companies? Traditionally, media activities were viewed as binary—either media or not. However, in a second wave of digital convergence, media-related activities permeate many economic activities, raising delineation questions. To address this, we propose a model and empirical approach to measure the degrees of involvement in vario…
Into the next generation of digital protection
Beyond the mogul
The article shows that outside ownership of media moves in stages – from media properties as the mouthpiece for personal and business interests, to a second stage of conglomerates seeking economic “synergies” of performance, to a third stage dominated by financial portfolio diversification. These phases of outside media ownership correspond to the stages of economic development in that country.The article finds that in rich countries, the ownersh…
Who Owns the World's Media
This publication moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, it covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, and wireless telecommunication, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries
Broadband As a Video Platform
Media Entertainment as a Development Strategy
Let Them Eat Cellphones
The policy of serving rural America through wireless broadband offers false hope for the future and promotes inefficient use of resources in the present, argues Professor Noam. Rural mobile broadband will never, he says, be a satisfactory substitute for wired (fiber or coaxial) systems for meeting foreseeable needs for increased throughput, creating a new “digital gap.” It is at best a temporary Band-Aid for addressing the increasingly uneven dis…
Media Ownership and Concentration in America
x, 489 p. : 26 cm
Peer-to-Peer Video
Telecommunications
Au-delà de la libéralisation
Cet article soutient que l'institution du transport pour tiers, qui historiquement est à la base du mode de distribution des télécommunications, ne survivra pas. L'article étudie tout d'abord la signification du transport pour tiers et la manière avec laquelle il est apparu. Puis il analyse les pressions présentes et à venir exercées sur le système du transport pour tiers. Enfin, il s'interroge sur ce que pourrait être un futur sans transport pou…
Reconnecting Communications Studies with Communications Policy
L'A. analyse les relations entre la recherche en communication et l'environnement exterieur des medias aux Etats-Unis. Il considere que l'avenir de la discipline se situe dans une plus grande connexion de ces deux spheres entre elles. Les etudes en communication n'ont joue jusqu'a present qu'un role mineur dans les changements considerables dans le traitement public des systemes de communication aux Etats-Unis
Technologies without Boundaries
Le réseau public des télécommunications. Un concept qui bouge
Le traditionnel modèle centralisé de réseau de télécommunications public se trouve aujourd'hui secoué dans ses fondements par l'action de multiples forces centrifuges. Le réseau ouvert est en train de se répandre, faisant ainsi disparaître la dichotomie entre le secteur des télécommunications et le reste de l'économie. Ce nouveau modèle n'est cependant pas encore stabilisé et plusieurs hypothèses sont encore ouvertes quant à l'avenir où les résea…
Technologies without Boundaries
La déréglementation de la télévision va-t-elle renforcer la domination d'Hollywood ? Une critique économique d'un raisonnement traditionnel
The opponents of the liberation of the audiovisual market frequently refer to the existance of an "iron law", according to a deregulated environment it will inveriably lead to an invasion of poor quality american programs on the screen. This article demonstrates that the existance of this "iron law" relies on a banal economic analysis in Europe, the traditional organisation of the television sector, notably the existence of public monopolies and …
The Public Telecommunications Network
Journal Article The Public Telecommunications Network: A Concept in Transition Get access Eli M. Noam Eli M. Noam 1Eli M. Noam is Professor and Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He has been designated Commissioner on the public Service Commission of New York State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volum…
A public and private-choice model of broadcasting
A local regulator's rewards for conformity in policy
Demand functions and the valuation of public goods
Public preferences for economic policies
Blindfolded Justice Led by an Invisible Hand
The article argues that instead of viewing the criminal justice process as determined by judicial or prosecutorial discretion, it should be seen as the outcome of exchange transactions that are designed to adjust resource constraints between case inflows and outflows. These exchanges, over which judges and prosecutors have only little control in the aggregate, generate changes in the criminal justice system in an unplanned or “invisible hand” fas…
The Efficiency of Direct Democracy
The paper investigates the Pareto efficiency of direct democracy and searches for the frequency with which the losing minority in referendum voting could compensate the majority and still be better off. A model is defined that permits the measuring of the intensity of preferences in a population, based on voting and abstention behavior. Using the model, an analysis of over 100 Swiss referenda reveals only a few instances in which the outcome of d…
Beyond the mogul
The article shows that outside ownership of media moves in stages – from media properties as the mouthpiece for personal and business interests, to a second stage of conglomerates seeking economic “synergies” of performance, to a third stage dominated by financial portfolio diversification. These phases of outside media ownership correspond to the stages of economic development in that country.The article finds that in rich countries, the ownersh…
A public and private-choice model of broadcasting
The Efficiency of Direct Democracy
The paper investigates the Pareto efficiency of direct democracy and searches for the frequency with which the losing minority in referendum voting could compensate the majority and still be better off. A model is defined that permits the measuring of the intensity of preferences in a population, based on voting and abstention behavior. Using the model, an analysis of over 100 Swiss referenda reveals only a few instances in which the outcome of d…
Let Them Eat Cellphones
The policy of serving rural America through wireless broadband offers false hope for the future and promotes inefficient use of resources in the present, argues Professor Noam. Rural mobile broadband will never, he says, be a satisfactory substitute for wired (fiber or coaxial) systems for meeting foreseeable needs for increased throughput, creating a new “digital gap.” It is at best a temporary Band-Aid for addressing the increasingly uneven dis…
La déréglementation de la télévision va-t-elle renforcer la domination d'Hollywood ? Une critique économique d'un raisonnement traditionnel
The opponents of the liberation of the audiovisual market frequently refer to the existance of an "iron law", according to a deregulated environment it will inveriably lead to an invasion of poor quality american programs on the screen. This article demonstrates that the existance of this "iron law" relies on a banal economic analysis in Europe, the traditional organisation of the television sector, notably the existence of public monopolies and …
Demand functions and the valuation of public goods
The Efficiency of Direct Democracy
The paper investigates the Pareto efficiency of direct democracy and searches for the frequency with which the losing minority in referendum voting could compensate the majority and still be better off. A model is defined that permits the measuring of the intensity of preferences in a population, based on voting and abstention behavior. Using the model, an analysis of over 100 Swiss referenda reveals only a few instances in which the outcome of d…
Public preferences for economic policies
Blindfolded Justice Led by an Invisible Hand
The article argues that instead of viewing the criminal justice process as determined by judicial or prosecutorial discretion, it should be seen as the outcome of exchange transactions that are designed to adjust resource constraints between case inflows and outflows. These exchanges, over which judges and prosecutors have only little control in the aggregate, generate changes in the criminal justice system in an unplanned or “invisible hand” fas…
Demand functions and the valuation of public goods
A local regulator's rewards for conformity in policy
The Public Telecommunications Network
Journal Article The Public Telecommunications Network: A Concept in Transition Get access Eli M. Noam Eli M. Noam 1Eli M. Noam is Professor and Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He has been designated Commissioner on the public Service Commission of New York State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volum…
A public and private-choice model of broadcasting
La déréglementation de la télévision va-t-elle renforcer la domination d'Hollywood ? Une critique économique d'un raisonnement traditionnel
The opponents of the liberation of the audiovisual market frequently refer to the existance of an "iron law", according to a deregulated environment it will inveriably lead to an invasion of poor quality american programs on the screen. This article demonstrates that the existance of this "iron law" relies on a banal economic analysis in Europe, the traditional organisation of the television sector, notably the existence of public monopolies and …
Technologies without Boundaries
Le réseau public des télécommunications. Un concept qui bouge
Le traditionnel modèle centralisé de réseau de télécommunications public se trouve aujourd'hui secoué dans ses fondements par l'action de multiples forces centrifuges. Le réseau ouvert est en train de se répandre, faisant ainsi disparaître la dichotomie entre le secteur des télécommunications et le reste de l'économie. Ce nouveau modèle n'est cependant pas encore stabilisé et plusieurs hypothèses sont encore ouvertes quant à l'avenir où les résea…
Technologies without Boundaries
Reconnecting Communications Studies with Communications Policy
L'A. analyse les relations entre la recherche en communication et l'environnement exterieur des medias aux Etats-Unis. Il considere que l'avenir de la discipline se situe dans une plus grande connexion de ces deux spheres entre elles. Les etudes en communication n'ont joue jusqu'a present qu'un role mineur dans les changements considerables dans le traitement public des systemes de communication aux Etats-Unis
Au-delà de la libéralisation
Cet article soutient que l'institution du transport pour tiers, qui historiquement est à la base du mode de distribution des télécommunications, ne survivra pas. L'article étudie tout d'abord la signification du transport pour tiers et la manière avec laquelle il est apparu. Puis il analyse les pressions présentes et à venir exercées sur le système du transport pour tiers. Enfin, il s'interroge sur ce que pourrait être un futur sans transport pou…
Telecommunications
Peer-to-Peer Video
Media Ownership and Concentration in America
x, 489 p. : 26 cm
Let Them Eat Cellphones
The policy of serving rural America through wireless broadband offers false hope for the future and promotes inefficient use of resources in the present, argues Professor Noam. Rural mobile broadband will never, he says, be a satisfactory substitute for wired (fiber or coaxial) systems for meeting foreseeable needs for increased throughput, creating a new “digital gap.” It is at best a temporary Band-Aid for addressing the increasingly uneven dis…
Broadband As a Video Platform
Media Entertainment as a Development Strategy
Who Owns the World's Media
This publication moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, it covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, and wireless telecommunication, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries
Beyond the mogul
The article shows that outside ownership of media moves in stages – from media properties as the mouthpiece for personal and business interests, to a second stage of conglomerates seeking economic “synergies” of performance, to a third stage dominated by financial portfolio diversification. These phases of outside media ownership correspond to the stages of economic development in that country.The article finds that in rich countries, the ownersh…
Into the next generation of digital protection
What Are Media? A Hedonic Model for the Second Digital Convergence
Key questions for media scholarship hinge on defining its object: What are media today? What are media industries and companies? Traditionally, media activities were viewed as binary—either media or not. However, in a second wave of digital convergence, media-related activities permeate many economic activities, raising delineation questions. To address this, we propose a model and empirical approach to measure the degrees of involvement in vario…
Political science (15 works) · Business (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Microeconomics (7 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (6 works) · Telecommunications (6 works) · Law (5 works)