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

Name: Selling the Air A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States
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ISBN: 9780226777214

ISBN-10: 0226777219

ISBN-13: 9780226777214

Edition: 1996

Authors: Thomas Streeter

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In this interdisciplinary study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, Thomas Streeter reverses the usual take on broadcasting and markets by showing that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. Analyzing the processes by which commercial media are organized, Streeter asks how it is possible to take the practice of broadcasting—the reproduction of disembodied sounds and pictures for dissemination to vast unseen audiences—and constitute it as something that can be bought, owned, and sold. With an impressive command of broadcast history, as well as critical and cultural studies of the media, Streeter shows that liberal…

Book details

List price: $106.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.276

Thomas Streeter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States .



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Fact of Television: A Theoretical Prologue



Liberalism, Corporate Liberalism



A Revisionist History of Broadcasting, 1900-1934



Inside the Beltway as an Interpretive Community: The Politics of Policy



Postmodern Property: Toward a New Political Economy of Broadcasting



"But Not the Ownership Thereof": The Peculiar Property Status of the Broadcast License



Broadcast Copyright and the Vicissitudes of Authorship in Electronic Culture



Viewing as Property: Broadcasting's Audience Commodity



Toward a New Politics of Electronic Media


Index