{"product_id":"republic-on-the-wire-cable-television-pluralism-and-the-politics-of-new-technologies-19481984-9780813585291","title":"Republic on the Wire Cable Television Pluralism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of cable television in America is far older than networks like MTV, ESPN, and HBO, which are so familiar to us today. Tracing the origins of cable TV back to the late 1940s, media scholar John McMurria also locates the roots of many current debates about premium television, cultural elitism, minority programming, content restriction, and corporate ownership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRepublic on the Wire \u003c\/i\u003eis an incisive, original work that reveals the enduring stakes for democracy in the history of our media policy.\" -- Jennifer Holt * author of Empires of Entertainment *\u003cbr\u003e\"Grounded in fresh empirical and archival work, \u003ci\u003eRepublic on the Wire \u003c\/i\u003eshows us the continuities between an understudied niche of television history and new media development and policy.\" -- Vicki Mayer * author of Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] deeply researched and compellingly argued new book [and a] useful contribution to media history research as well as debates about media policy.\" * Media Industries *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: American Pluralism, Television Policy, and the Method of Equality\u003cbr\u003e  1Broadcast Policy, Television Spectrum, and the Pluralist Logics of Inequality\u003cbr\u003e  2Contesting (In)Equality at the Margins of Television Reception\u003cbr\u003e  3Pay-TV Orders\u003cbr\u003e  4Local Origination, Public Access, and the Hierarchical Logics of Civic Culture\u003cbr\u003e  5Blue Skies, Black Cultures\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue: Neutrality, Connectivity, or Equality When Media Converge\u003cbr\u003e  NotesSelect BibliographyIndex ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405791666519,"sku":"9780813585291","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813585291.jpg?v=1730493633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/republic-on-the-wire-cable-television-pluralism-and-the-politics-of-new-technologies-19481984-9780813585291","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}