Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
by Susan J. Douglas
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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Such organizations as AT&T, General Electric, and the U.S. Navy played major roles in radio's evolution, but early press coverage may have decisively steered radio in the direction of mass entertainment. Susan J. Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.Tags
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Susan J. Douglas is the author of Where the Girls Are, The Mommy Myth, and other works of cultural history and criticism. She is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies and chair of the department at the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, Ms., The Village Voice, and In These Times. show more She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. show less
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- Original publication date
- 1987
- Important places
- USA
- Dedication
- To my father, Colonel Harry V. Douglas, and to the memory of my mother, Barbara.
- First words
- In the spring of 1922, a "radio boom" swept the United States.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Just as the press helped shape the early history of radio, so do the mass media today define and delimit the public discourses surrounding how technology is, and should be, embedded in work and leisure, in the existing power structure, and in our very thoughts.
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Technology, Science & Nature, Business
- DDC/MDS
- 384.54 — Society, government, & culture Commerce, communications & transportation regulations Communications Broadcasting Radio broadcasting
- LCC
- HE8698 .D685 — Social sciences Transportation and communications Transportation and communications Telecommunication industry. Telegraph
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- English
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