Prologue to a farce communication and democracy in America /
Inspired by Madison's observation, Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communications and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a farce, he argues that citizens' political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technolo...
| Основен автор: | Lloyd, Mark. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Серия: |
History of communication.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Prologue to a farce. |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- pt. 1.
- Communications and democracy in America
- 1.
- The challenge of American democracy
- 2.
- The role of communications in the democratic experiment
- pt. 2.
- A brief history of U.S. communications policy
- 3.
- The break : the telegraph from Jackson to Hayes (1830-1876)
- 4.
- The telephone and the trusts (1876-1900)
- 5.
- From Roosevelt to Roosevelt : wireless and radio (1900-1934)
- 6.
- From Truman to Eisenhower : the birth of television (1935-1959)
- 7.
- Kennedy, Johnson, and satellites (1960-1968)
- 8.
- From Nixon to Reagan : backlash and cable (1968-1991)
- 9.
- The Internet : communications policy in the Clinton era (1992-2000)
- 10.
- The end of history
- pt. 3.
- Reclaiming our republic
- 11.
- A few lessons
- 12.
- Reclaiming our republic
- Notes
- Index.