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OverviewWinner of the 2024 BEA Book Award Despite uncertain beginnings, public broadcasting emerged as a noncommercial media industry that transformed American culture. Josh Shepperd looks at the people, institutions, and influences behind the media reform movement and clearinghouse the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) in the drive to create what became the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio. Founded in 1934, the NAEB began as a disorganized collection of undersupported university broadcasters. Shepperd traces the setbacks, small victories, and trial and error experiments that took place as thousands of advocates built a media coalition premised on the belief that technology could ease social inequality through equal access to education and information. The bottom-up, decentralized network they created implemented a different economy of scale and a vision of a mass media divorced from commercial concerns. At the same time, they transformed advice, criticism, and methods adopted from other sectors into an infrastructure that supported public broadcasting in the 1960s and beyond. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Josh ShepperdPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780252045110ISBN 10: 0252045114 Pages: 244 Publication Date: 23 May 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Advocacy: Media Reform, from Activism to Advocacy: Before and After the Communications Act of 1934 Chapter 2. Funding: The Philanthropic Mandate for Collaboration between Educational and Commercial Broadcasters Chapter 3. Distribution and Facilities: America’s Public Media Industry: From the Rocky Mountain Radio Council to the National Bicycle Network Chapter 4. Research and Development: The Emergence of Communication: Reception Research as a Strategic Tool of Media Reform Chapter 5: Policy: Public Media Policy, 1934-1967--Lessons from Reform History Conclusion Notes IndexReviews“Equipped with a wealth of archival research and a fresh perspective, Shepperd reshapes the history of public broadcasting convincingly and with great respect for the practitioners, researchers, and reformers responsible for its development and influence.”--Deborah L. Jaramillo, author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry Equipped with a wealth of archival research and a fresh perspective, Shepperd reshapes the history of public broadcasting convincingly and with great respect for the practitioners, researchers, and reformers responsible for its development and influence. --Deborah L. Jaramillo, author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry Author InformationJosh Shepperd is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and director of the Sound Submissions Project at the Library of Congress. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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