num_pages: 400
description: Based on contemporary sources, the widely acclaimed history of early radio. Such organizations as AT&amp;T, General Electric, and the U.S. Navy played major roles in radio's evolution, but early press coverage may have decisively steered radio in the direction of mass entertainment. Susan J. Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.
language: English
title: Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922
titlecomplete: Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
genres: Academic, History, Technology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 31
series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press