Barriers down : how American power and free-flow policies shaped global media / Diana Lemberg.
Barriers down : how American power and free-flow policies shaped global media / Diana Lemberg.
Barriers down : how American power and free-flow policies shaped global media / Diana Lemberg.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/4655
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English
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296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : liberalizing missions -- Inventing freedom of information in the 1940s United States -- Quantifying and qualifying freedom of information during the early Cold War -- Information flows and the conundrum of multilingualism -- Capacity as freedom during the development decade -- Satelli...
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2019]
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"Freedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States' First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. Barriers Down reveals its unexpected origins in political, economic, and cultural battles over analog media in the postwar period. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world...
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Barriers down : how American power and free-flow policies shaped global media / Diana Lemberg.
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Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 2014, titled "The free flow of information" : media, human rights, and U.S. global power, 1945-1984.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/4655
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74VKV5RWgpgl
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9780231182164 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0231182163 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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302.2309045
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991024268451702626
