| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book" --T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-354) and index. |
| Contents |
The rise. The disruptive founder ; Radio dreams ; Mr. Vail is a big man ; The time is not ripe for feature films ; Centralize all radio activities ; The Paramount ideal -- Beneath the All-seeing Eye. The foreign attachment ; The legion of decency ; FM radio ; We now add sight to sound -- The rebels, the challengers, and the fall. The right kind of breakup ; The radicalism of the Internet revolution ; Nixon's cable ; Broken Bell ; Esperanto for machines -- Reborn without a soul. Turner does television ; Mass production of the spirit ; The return of AT&T -- The Internet against everyone. A surprising wreck ; Father and son ; The separations principle. |
| Summary |
As Wu's sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century- radio, telephone, television, and film- was born free and open. Each invited unrestricted use and enterprising experiment until some would-be mogul battled his way to total domination. Explaining how invention begets industry and industry begets empire- a progress often blessed by government, typically with stifling consequences for free expression and technical innovation alike- Wu identifies a time-honored pattern in the maneuvers of today's great information powers |
| Subject |
Telecommunication -- History.
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Telecommunication. |
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History. |
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Information technology -- History.
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Information technology. |
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Mass media -- History.
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Mass media. |
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Télécommunications -- Histoire. |
| ISBN |
9780307269935 hardcover |
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0307269930 hardcover |
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