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Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nationâs views. By targeting broadcast regulations and laws, both liberal and conservative activist groups have sought to influence what America sees on the small screen. Public Interests describes the impressive battles that these media activists fought and charts how they tried to change the face of American television.  Allison Perlman looks behind the scenes to track the strategies employed by several key groups of media reformers, from civil rights organizations like the NAACP to conservative groups like the Parents Television Council. While some of these campaigns were designed to improve the representation of certain marginalized groups in television programming, as Perlman reveals, they all strove for more systemic reforms, from early efforts to create educational channels to more recent attempts to preserve a space for Spanish-language broadcasting.  Public Interests fills in a key piece of the history of American social reform movements, revealing pressure groupsâ deep investments in influencing both television programming and broadcasting policy. Vividly illustrating the resilience, flexibility, and diversity of media activist campaigns from the 1950s onward, the book offers valuable lessons that can be applied to current battles over the airwaves. Â
Hardcover:
9780813572307 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 1, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nationâs views.
Paperback:
9780813572291 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 1, 2016, cover price $27.95
Product Description: From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television as a discrete object...read more
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9780415992237 | Routledge, September 14, 2010, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries.
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