TY - JOUR
T1 - The Closing of the Ether: Communication Policy and the Public Interest in the United States and Great Britain, 1921-1926
AU - Ashley, Seth
PY - 2013/1/10
Y1 - 2013/1/10
N2 - How do media systems come to be structured in different ways? Through a comparative historical institutional analysis of the origins of broadcasting policy in the United States and Great Britain in the early twentieth century, this study examines reasons private, commercial interests dominated the U.S. system while Britain granted a monopoly to the publicly funded, noncommercial BBC. Policy outcomes at this critical juncture were contingent on different path-dependent notions of the public interest as well as temporal sequencing. Through an analysis of primary documents and secondary literature, this study considers the implications of these different approaches for modern communication policy and democratic society.
AB - How do media systems come to be structured in different ways? Through a comparative historical institutional analysis of the origins of broadcasting policy in the United States and Great Britain in the early twentieth century, this study examines reasons private, commercial interests dominated the U.S. system while Britain granted a monopoly to the publicly funded, noncommercial BBC. Policy outcomes at this critical juncture were contingent on different path-dependent notions of the public interest as well as temporal sequencing. Through an analysis of primary documents and secondary literature, this study considers the implications of these different approaches for modern communication policy and democratic society.
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/communication_facpubs/52
U2 - 10.1080/10811680.2013.746136
DO - 10.1080/10811680.2013.746136
M3 - Article
JO - Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations
JF - Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations
ER -