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Telecommunication, Economics, and Black Families in America

Communication advances such as computers, the telephone, and cassette technologies (audio and video), interfaced to create, store, retrieve, and sell information, have helped characterize the hightech decade of the 1980s. The study of communication is fundamentally important to comprehending how the complex American society functions, including its economy: the manner in which goods and services are produced and distributed. Dewey (1944: 3) and Schramm (1973: 2) have stressed that communication makes societies possible. Schramm (1973: 2), the noted communications scholar, goes on to say: