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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lloyd, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Communications and Democracy in America
  • 1. The Challenge of American Democracy
  • 2. The Role of Communications in the Democratic Experiment
  • Part II. 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
  • Part III. Reclaiming Our Republic
  • 11. A Few Lessons
  • 12. Reclaiming Our Republic
  • Notes
  • Index
  • back cover