ISBN:
9780857892126
,
9781848879843
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (419 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The master switch
DDC:
302.231
Keywords:
Information technology -- History
;
Mass media -- History
;
Telecommunication -- History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Hörfunk
;
Fernsehen
;
Internet
;
Zentralisation
;
Herrschaft
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Cover; The Master Switch; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Introduction; Part I: The Rise; Chapter 1: The Disruptive Founder; Chapter 2: Radio Dreams; Chapter 3: Mr. Vail Is a Big Man; Chapter 4: The Time Is Not Ripe for Feature Films; Chapter 5: Centralize All Radio Activities; Chapter 6: The Paramount Ideal; Part II: Beneath the All- Seeing Eye; Chapter 7: The Foreign Attachment; Chapter 8: The Legion of Decency; Chapter 9: FM Radio; Chapter 10: Now We Add Sight to Sound; Part III: The Rebels, the Challengers, and the Fall; Chapter 11: The Right Kind of Breakup
Abstract:
Chapter 12: The Radicalism of the Internet RevolutionChapter 13; Chapter 14: Broken Bell; Chapter 15: Esperanto for Machines; Part IV: Reborn Without a Soul; Chapter 16: Turner Does Television; Chapter 17: Mass Production of the Spirit; Chapter 18: The Return of AT&T; Part V: The Internet Against Everyone; Chapter 19: A Surprising Wreck; Chapter 20: Father and Son; Chapter 21: The Separations Principle; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A Note on the Type
Abstract:
The Internet Age: on the face of it, an era of unprecedented freedom in both communication and culture. Yet in the past, each major new medium, from telephone to satellite television, has crested on a wave of similar idealistic optimism, before succumbing to the inevitable undertow of industrial consolidation. Every once free and open technology has, in time, become centralized and closed; as corporate power has taken control of the 'master switch.' Today a similar struggle looms over the Internet, and as it increasingly supersedes all other media the stakes have never been higher. Part indu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Master Switch; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Introduction; Part I: The Rise; Chapter 1: The Disruptive Founder; Chapter 2: Radio Dreams; Chapter 3: Mr. Vail Is a Big Man; Chapter 4: The Time Is Not Ripe for Feature Films; Chapter 5: Centralize All Radio Activities; Chapter 6: The Paramount Ideal; Part II: Beneath the All- Seeing Eye; Chapter 7: The Foreign Attachment; Chapter 8: The Legion of Decency; Chapter 9: FM Radio; Chapter 10: Now We Add Sight to Sound; Part III: The Rebels, the Challengers, and the Fall; Chapter 11: The Right Kind of Breakup
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 12: The Radicalism of the Internet RevolutionChapter 13; Chapter 14: Broken Bell; Chapter 15: Esperanto for Machines; Part IV: Reborn Without a Soul; Chapter 16: Turner Does Television; Chapter 17: Mass Production of the Spirit; Chapter 18: The Return of AT&T; Part V: The Internet Against Everyone; Chapter 19: A Surprising Wreck; Chapter 20: Father and Son; Chapter 21: The Separations Principle; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A Note on the Type
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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