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The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu.
Wu, Tim.
2010
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Author
Wu, Tim.
Title
The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Call Number
HE7631 .W8 2010
Edition
First edition.
Course Lists
The Media Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy (Prof. Wu, Prof. Knee)
by
Timothy Wu, Jonathan Knee
(Spring 2025)
ISBN
9780307269935
0307269930
Description
x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)515402494
Note
"This is a Borzoi book" --Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-354) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
3
pt. I
The Rise
15
1.
The Disruptive Founder
17
2.
Radio Dreams
33
3.
Mr. Vail Is a Big Man
45
4.
The Time Is Not Ripe for Feature Films
61
5.
Centralize All Radio Activities
74
6.
The Paramount Ideal
86
pt. II
Beneath the All-Seeing Eye
99
7.
The Foreign Attachment
101
8.
The Legion of Decency
115
9.
FM Radio
125
10.
We Now Add Sight to Sound
136
pt. III
The Rebels, the Challengers, and the Fall
157
11.
The Right Kind of Breakup
159
12.
The Radicalism of the Internet Revolution
168
13.
Nixon's Cable
176
14.
Broken Bell
187
15.
Esperanto for Machines
196
pt. IV
Reborn Without a Soul
205
16.
Turner Does Television
207
17.
Mass Production of the Spirit
217
18.
The Return of AT&T
238
pt. V
The Internet Against Everyone
255
19.
A Surprising Wreck
257
20.
Father and Son
269
21.
The Separations Principle
299
Acknowledgments
321
Notes
323
Index
355
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