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The creation of the media : political origins of modern communications / Paul Starr.
Annenberg Library - Reference P92.U5 S646 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starr, Paul, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--United States--History.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Political aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Mass media--Political aspects--United States--History.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 484 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- In this wide-ranging social history of American media, from the first printing press to the early days of radio, Starr shows that the creation of modern communications was as much the result of political choices as of technological invention.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Political Origins of Modern Communications 1
- Revolutions as Constitutive Moments 4
- Communications and Power 7
- The Path of American Development 12
- Part I The Opening of the Public Sphere, 1600-1860
- Chapter 1 Early Modern Origins 23
- The Diffusion and Control of Print 25
- Networks and News 30
- England's Opening 33
- France and the Transnational Public 41
- The De Facto Public Sphere 45
- Chapter 2 New Foundations 47
- Colonial Legacies 49
- The Revolution and the Public Sphere 62
- Constitutional Choices 71
- Why Rights Mattered 77
- Chapter 3 America's First Information Revolution 83
- The Creation of the News Network 84
- Privacy and Public Knowledge 94
- The Democratization of Competence 99
- An American Revolution in Communications 107
- Chapter 4 Capitalism and Democracy in Print 113
- Publishing and the Limits of Copyright 115
- The Revolution of Cheap Print 123
- New Publics, New Markets 130
- Center and Periphery in Antebellum America 139
- The Consequences of Political Choice 146
- Part II The Rise of Technological Networks, 1840-1930
- Chapter 5 The First Wire 153
- A Path for the Telegraph 155
- Monopoly on the Wires 165
- Wiring the News 177
- Chapter 6 New Connections: Telephone, Cable, and Wireless 191
- A Path for the Telephone 192
- The Technology of Civil Society 200
- Hello, Regulation 205
- Wires, Waves, and Lines of Innovation 212
- Communications and Strategic Advantage 222
- Part III The Making of the Modern Media, 1865-1941
- Chapter 7 Great Transformations: The Early Mass Media and the Diversity Dynamic 233
- The Rise of Moral Censorship 235
- Diversity and Daily Journalism 250
- Politics, Markets, and Magazines 260
- The Local and Oppositional Press 262
- Chapter 8 The Rediscovery of the First Amendment 267
- Free Speech Becomes a Cause 268
- War as a Generative Crisis 274
- The Liberal Turn of the Twenties 286
- Chapter 9 The Framing of the Movies 295
- The Path to the Nickelodeon 296
- Censorship and Diversity on the Screen 305
- The Consolidation of Control 315
- Chapter 10 The Constitution of the Air (1): The Origins of Broadcasting 327
- Clashes in the Ether 330
- Divergent Paths 339
- Chapter 11 The Constitution of the Air (2): Creating the New Public Sphere 347
- New Networks, New Powers 348
- Censorship and Diversity on the Dial 363
- Politics and the New Public Sphere 370
- Networks and News 376
- Chapter 12 Coda: The Advent of the Media 385
- The Sources of Media Power 388
- The Media and Democracy 395.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-470) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465081932
- OCLC:
- 53215713
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