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Problem

Paul Starr - The Creation of the Media. Which constitutive choices shaped the development of the film, radio, and television industries? Why did film become the key battleground of the culture wars in the early 20th century? What kinds of cinematic material emerged early on and what kind of reactions did it garner? What does Charlie Chaplin's career reveal about the relationship between film and politics in the United States? Why did the US government end up playing a very different role for the radio broadcasting industry than it did for the film industry? How might things have ended up the other way around? What were the original intended uses for wireless telegraphy? How did early understandings and expectations for wireless telegraphy manifest in the Radio Act of 1912? What characterized the early years of broadcasting (1920-1927)? Why did this halcyon period end with the Radio Act of 1927? What distinguished the "Radio Group" from the "Telephone Group"? What did each of these groups contribute to the formation of the American "network model"? Put another way, what distinguished AT&T's business strategy from that of RCA/NBC? Which elements of each were ultimately incorporated into US broadcasting (radio and TV)? How did the technical requirements of the radio medium affect battles over radio culture and the structure of the radio business? Who were the biggest winners following the passage of the Radio Act of 1927? Who lost out? What was to be the role of government? What kind of relationships developed between the radio and advertising industries? What sort of effects did these relationships have on the production and distribution of news and entertainment content? What did this mean for political campaigns in the US? What controls did the US government place on broadcasting industries, even if it declined to exercise them often? What did these controls mean for press freedoms on radio and later TV?