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Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunications                     (CAST)

Roundtable Schedule for January 1993.

Time:     4:30-6:00 p.m.
Place:         The Ohio Legal Center, Room 115, 33 W. 11th Ave.
          (On the Ohio State University Campus)


Jan. 6  --"The Uses and Gratifications of Personal Telephone Networks"

            John Dimmick, Professor, Department of Communication

Professor Dimmick will present the results of his research on telephone usage 
and personal telephone networks. In two recent studies conducted in Ohio, Dr. 
Dimmick uncovered three factors in telephone gratifications: instrumentality, 
sociability and reassurance. He will discuss those findings as well as his 
development of a typology of personal telephone networks.

Jan. 20 -- "Training Employees for the Information Society: The European       
Approach"

            Lee Becker, Professor, Department of Journalism

The European Community is developing new approaches to education and training 
that will attempt to balance differences between the educational systems of EC 
nations. One of the Community's key concerns in the process is to ensure that 
the European workers of tomorrow are prepared for employment in an information 
and technology-based society.  Professor Becker will present the results of his
research into Europe's plans for addressing the problem.  The research was 
conducted  while Dr. Becker was in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar.

Jan. 27--"Direct Broadcast Satellite: Present and Future"

            Hank Lytle, Vice President-DBS, Continental Cablevision Inc.

Mr. Lytle will discuss the evolution and development of direct broadcast 
satellite and its potential for providing information, education and 
entertainment to rural areas.





Continental Cablevision is a partner in Primestar Partners, a consortium of 
cable companies that are experimenting with and test marketing direct broadcast
systems.  Mr. Lytle will discuss those tests and their implications for the 
future.


Admission to CAST Roundtables is free, and the public is welcome. No 
reservations are necessary. Parking is available in the parking garage just 
north of the Ohio Union
on N. High St. From the garage, walk south on High Street past the Union and 
the Law School, and turn right (west) onto 11th. The Ohio Legal Center will be 
on your left.

For more information, call Sue Brown at 292-8444 or Ann Hollifield at 292-0080.