Selling the Air - A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: The Fact of Television: A Theoretical Prologue2: Liberalism, Corporate Liberalism 3: A Revisionist History of Broadcasting, 1900-1934 4: Inside the Beltway as an Interpretive Community: The Politics of Policy5: Postmodern Property: Toward a New Political Economy of Broadcasting 6: "But Not the Ownership Thereof": The Peculiar Property Status of the Broadcast License7: Broadcast Copyright and the Vicissitudes of Authorship in Electronic Culture 8: Viewing as Property: Broadcasting's Audience Commodity 9: Toward a New Politics of Electronic Media Index

Summary

In this study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, the author shows that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. It shows that liberal marketplace principles have come into contradiction with themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Streeter
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.1996
• EAN: 9780226777221
• ISBN: 978-0-226-77722-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries