Selling the Air

By - Streeter, Thomas

Floor - Floor 1

ISBN 10 - 0226777227

ISBN 13 - 9780226777221

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Broadcasting--Law and legislation

Shelf No - 20

Call Number - 384.5409 STR

Physical Description - xvi, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes Index

Book Information

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 marketplace principles—ideas of individuality, property, public interest, and markets—have come into contradiction with themselves. Commercial broadcasting is dependent on government privileges, and Streeter provides a searching critique of the political choices of corporate liberalism that shape our landscape of cultural property and electronic intangibles.

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