Starr, Paul,  1949- <br/><br/>
The creation of the media :  political origins of modern communications / 
Paul Starr 
 - New York :  Basic Books,  c2004 
 - xii, 484 p. ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-470) and index 
<br/><br/>The political origins of modern communications -- Part I: The opening of the public sphere, 1600-1860 -- 1.  Early modern origins -- 2. New foundations -- 3.  America's first information revolution -- 4. Capitalism  and democracy in print -- Part II: The rise of  technological networks, 1840-1930 -- 5. The first wave --  6. New connections: telephone, cable, and wireless --  Part III: The making of the modern media, 1865-1941 -- 7. Great transformations: The early mass media and the  diversity dynamic -- 8. The rediscovery of the first  amendment -- 9. The framing of the movies -- 10. The constitution of the air (1): The origins of  broadcasting -- 11. The constitution of the air (2):  Creating the new public sphere -- 12. Coda: The advent of  the media.       
<br/><br/> " A sweeping social history of the political roots of the  information age, by one of this country's most  distinguished public intellectuals, the Pulitzer Prize- winning author of The Social Transformation of American  Medicine." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0465081932 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003020915 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mass media--Political aspects--History--United States<br/>Mass media--History--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government