The Creation of the Media
by Paul Starr · first published 2004
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Offers a historical analysis of the creation of communications in the United States and demonstrates how political decisions affected the developing American society and how these choices have social, economic, and military impact.
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A couple of books on the topic: "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu, and "The Creation of the Media", by Paul Starr. "The Master Switch" goes through the history of radio, where an initial period of experimentation was stifled by regulation, with big business (the large networks) being the major beneficiary;…
on “New documentary exposes media consolidation and government collusion” ↗…question were already paid for by customers who thought they had every right to use them to access Google content). For more on the relevant history, I recommend "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu, or "The Creation of the Media" by Paul Starr. Cite on the Whitacre quote: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/how-google-can-tell-e...
on “Can anyone logically refute this article against Net Neutrality regulation?” ↗…"Master Switch" is a great book. It has influenced me in the writing of #killswitch. Link to #killswitch project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akorn/killswitch-a-docum... I have not read "The Creation of the Media", by Paul Starr. What can you tell me about that book?
on “New documentary exposes media consolidation and government collusion” ↗…won, and it contributed to a massive flowering of print media in the United States throughout the early 19th century. What is most striking about this period, as Paul Starr argues in his new book, The Creation of the Media, is that there wasn't rhetoric about free markets in the media, nor about the sacrosanct rights of commercial interests. That came later. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/McChesney/Waging_Media_Bat...…
on “An Accidental Marketing Tactic That Many Companies Can Learn From” ↗…for, among other things, forbidding its subscribing papers to criticize the Western Union telegraph monopoly. (Here's where I'd link to a reference if it was on line, but it's not: Paul Starr, "The Creation of the Media", ch. 5, p. 184.)
on “Publishing Is Back to the Future” ↗