Journal article
Liberating American Communications: Foreign Ownership Regulations from the Radio Act of 1912 to the Radio Act of 1927
Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, Vol.48(2), pp.157-178
06/01/2004
DOI: 10.1207/s15506878jobem4802_1
Abstract
Although foreign ownership regulations, embodied in Section 12 of the Radio Act of 1927, are most commonly associated with propaganda and broadcasting, this study shows that they targeted wireless telegraphy as a weapon of war. Archival research reveals that these rules formed part of the U.S. Navy's strategy to break the supremacy of Britain in international communications. Foreign ownership rules are only one example of provisions in the Radio Act that target telegraphy, not broadcasting, prompting us to reinterpret the Act as a hybrid legislation, designed to regulate two different uses of the same technology. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Liberating American Communications: Foreign Ownership Regulations from the Radio Act of 1912 to the Radio Act of 1927
- Creators
- Rita Zajácz
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, Vol.48(2), pp.157-178
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1207/s15506878jobem4802_1
- ISSN
- 0883-8151
- eISSN
- 1550-6878
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2004
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984309646802771
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