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Thomas Streeter

Selling the Air

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

352 pages,  6 x 9  © 1996

Cloth $75.00

ISBN: 9780226777214   Published June 1996

Paper $22.00

ISBN: 9780226777221   Published June 1996

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Fact of Television: A Theoretical Prologue
2: Liberalism, Corporate Liberalism
3: A Revisionist History of Broadcasting, 1900-1934
4: Inside the Beltway as an Interpretive Community: The Politics of
Policy
5: Postmodern Property: Toward a New Political Economy of Broadcasting
6: "But Not the Ownership Thereof": The Peculiar Property Status of the
Broadcast License
7: 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
Awards
  • McGannon Center Research Award
Subjects



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