Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

by Susan J. Douglas

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Such organizations as AT& T, General Electric, and the U.S. Navy played major roles in radio's evolution, but early press coverage may have decisively steered radio in the direction of mass entertainment. Susan J. Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.
  • ISBN10 0801833876
  • ISBN13 9780801833878
  • Publish Date 1 October 1987
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 12 January 1995
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 400
  • Language English