- Title Pages
- Preface
-
Chapter One Media Reform -
Chapter Two Media Policy Literacy -
Chapter Three Activating the Fifth Estate -
Chapter Four WikiLeaks and “Indirect” Media Reform -
Chapter Five Mobilizing for Net Rights -
Chapter Six Lessons from the SOPA Fight -
Chapter Seven Internet Freedom from the Outside In -
Chapter Eight A Victory for Digital Justice -
Chapter Nine Working Toward an Open Connected Future -
Chapter Ten A Perfect Storm for Media Reform -
Chapter Eleven Between Philosophy and Action -
Chapter Twelve Media Reform Movements in Taiwan -
Chapter Thirteen Organizing for Media Reform in Canada -
Chapter Fourteen The Battle Over Low-Power FM in the United States -
Chapter Fifteen Ninety Percent Community, 10 Percent Radio -
Chapter Sixteen Media Reform Initiatives in West Africa -
Chapter Seventeen Waves of Struggle -
Chapter Eighteen Policy Hacking -
Chapter Nineteen Reforming or Conforming? -
Chapter Twenty “… please grant success to the journey on which I have come” -
Chapter Twenty-One Legislating for a More Participatory Media System -
Chapter Twenty-Two Public Service Broadcasting in Egypt -
Chapter Twenty-Three Impunity, Inclusion, and Implementation -
Chapter Twenty-Four Media Reform through Capacity Building -
Chapter Twenty-Five Media Reform in Guatemala -
Chapter Twenty-Six Media Reform in Mexico - Index
- Donald McGannon Communication Research Center’s Everett C. Parker Book Series
Waves of Struggle
Waves of Struggle
The History and Future of American Media Reform
- Chapter:
- (p.209) Chapter Seventeen Waves of Struggle
- Source:
- Strategies for Media Reform
- Author(s):
Victor Pickard
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
The 1940s was a contentious decade for U.S. media policy. Activists, policymakers, and media industries grappled over defining the normative foundations that governed major communication and regulatory institutions. At this time, a reform agenda took shape at both the grassroots social movement level and within elite policy circles. An analysis of the rise and fall of this postwar media reform movement holds at least three key lessons for contemporary media activists. First, it reminds us of the imperative to maintain a strong inside/outside strategy that keeps regulators connected to the grassroots. Second, we learn that media activists retreat on structural reform objectives at their own peril. Finally, we must remember that media reform rises and falls with other political struggles and radical social movements. With these lessons in mind, media reformers should seek to build liberal/left coalitions and, perhaps, a new popular front.
Keywords: media activism, media history, media policy, media reform, political economy, radical politics, social movements
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- Title Pages
- Preface
-
Chapter One Media Reform -
Chapter Two Media Policy Literacy -
Chapter Three Activating the Fifth Estate -
Chapter Four WikiLeaks and “Indirect” Media Reform -
Chapter Five Mobilizing for Net Rights -
Chapter Six Lessons from the SOPA Fight -
Chapter Seven Internet Freedom from the Outside In -
Chapter Eight A Victory for Digital Justice -
Chapter Nine Working Toward an Open Connected Future -
Chapter Ten A Perfect Storm for Media Reform -
Chapter Eleven Between Philosophy and Action -
Chapter Twelve Media Reform Movements in Taiwan -
Chapter Thirteen Organizing for Media Reform in Canada -
Chapter Fourteen The Battle Over Low-Power FM in the United States -
Chapter Fifteen Ninety Percent Community, 10 Percent Radio -
Chapter Sixteen Media Reform Initiatives in West Africa -
Chapter Seventeen Waves of Struggle -
Chapter Eighteen Policy Hacking -
Chapter Nineteen Reforming or Conforming? -
Chapter Twenty “… please grant success to the journey on which I have come” -
Chapter Twenty-One Legislating for a More Participatory Media System -
Chapter Twenty-Two Public Service Broadcasting in Egypt -
Chapter Twenty-Three Impunity, Inclusion, and Implementation -
Chapter Twenty-Four Media Reform through Capacity Building -
Chapter Twenty-Five Media Reform in Guatemala -
Chapter Twenty-Six Media Reform in Mexico - Index
- Donald McGannon Communication Research Center’s Everett C. Parker Book Series
