Routledge Reader on Electronic Media History

Introduction

Part I: The Meaning of History: An Introduction & Traditional Approach

Briggs, Social History and Human Experience

Gomery, "Methods for the Study of History of Broadcasting and Mass

Communication"

Meehan, "Critical Theorizing on Broadcast History"

Baudino and Kittross, "Broadcasting’s Oldest Station: An Examination of Four

Claimants"

Flichy, "New Media History"

Sterling, "Decade of Development: FM Radio in the 1950s"

Part II: Audiences, Identity & Programming

Collins, "Murrow and Friendly’s ‘Small World’: Television Conversation at the

Crossroads"

Schwalbe, "Jacqueline Kennedy and Cold War Propaganda"

Rogers and Clevenger "‘The Selling of the Pentagon’: Was CBS the Fulbright

Propaganda Machine?"

Hilmes, "Invisible Men: ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy’ and the Roots of Broadcast Discourse"

Smulyan, "Radio Advertising to American Women in the 1920s: A Latchkey to

Every Home"

Smulyan, "Live from Waikiki: Colonialism, Race, and Radio in Hawaii, 1934-

1963"

Rodríguez, "Creating an Audience and Remapping a Nation: A Brief History of

U.S. Spanish Language Broadcasting, 1930-1980"

Part III: News, Information & Political Programming

Allen, "Discovering ‘Joe Six Pack’ Content in Television News: The Hidden

History of Audience Research, News Consultants, and the Warner Class

Model"

Jones, "The Making of an Interventionist on the Air: Elmer Davis and CBS News,

1939-1941"

Karnick, "NBC and the Innovation of TV News: 1945-1953"

Culbert, "Television's visual impact on decision-making in the USA, 1968: The

Tet Offensive and Chicago's Convention"

Davies, "The First Radio War: Broadcasting in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-

1939"

Ozmun, "Opportunity Deferred: A 1952 Case Study of a Woman in Network

Television News"

Part IV: Public Broadcasting

Avery, "Exploring the Expanding Domain of Public Telecommunications

Research"

Aufderheide, "Public Television and the Public Sphere"

Brinson, "Frieda Hennock: FCC Activist and the Campaign for Educational

Television, 1948-1951"

Part V: International & National Systems

Donald R. Browne, "The International Newsroom: A Study of Practices at the

Voice of America, BBC and Deutsche Welle"

Cornwall, "Stirring Resistance from Moscow: The German Communists of

Czechoslovakia and Wireless Propaganda in the Sudetenland, 1941-1945"

Given, "Another Kind of Empire: The Voice of Australia, 1931-1939"

Godfrey and Spencer, "Canadian Marconi: CFCF Television from Signal Hill to

the Canadian Television Network"

Guo, "A Chronicle of Private Radio in Shanghai"

Hampton, "Early Hong Kong Television"

Kerr, "African broadcasting pioneers and the origins of radio drama"

Wiley, "Transnation: Globalization and the Reorganization of Chilean Television

in the Early 1990s"

Part VI: Law, Regulation & EthicsHugh G.J. Aitken, "Allocating the spectrum: The origins of radio regulation" Armstrong, "Constructing Television Communities: The FCC, Signals, and Cities,1948-1957"

Stavitsky, "The Changing Conception of Localism in U.S. Public Radio"

Horwitz, "The First Amendment Meets Some New Technologies"

Leslie, "Ethics as Communication Theory: Ed Murrow’s Legacy"

Levine, "Television Journalism on Trial: Westmoreland v. CBS"

Limburg, "The Decline of Broadcast Ethics: U.S. v. NAB"

Part VII: Industry, Business & Economics

Gomery, "The centrality of media economics"

Nielsen, "Television: Chicago Style"

Mullen, "The pre-history of pay cable television: an overview and analysis"

Parsons, "The Evolution of the Cable-Satellite Distribution System"

Newell et al., "The Hidden History of Product Placement"

Part VIII: Technology & Biography

Sivowitch, "A Technological Survey of Broadcasting’s ‘Pre-History,’ 1876-1920"

Slotten, "Radio engineers, the Federal Radio Commission, and the Social Shaping

of Broadcast Technology"

Sterne, "Television Under Construction: American Television and the Problem of

Distribution, 1926-62"

Walker, "Old media on new media: National popular press reaction to mechanical

television"

Index

Biography

Donald G. Godfrey is Professor Emeritus at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University. He is a Past President of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA); served as President of the National Council of Communication Associations (CCA); as editor of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media for four years; and is former Curator of the CBS-KIRO Milo Ryan Phonoarchive, a CBS Radio News World War II archive, today at the National Archive, Washington, D.C.

Susan L. Brinson is Professor of Communication at Auburn University. Her research focuses on television history, broadcast regulation, and media representations of identity. She is the author of two books and co-editor of an anthology. She served as editor of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media for three years.