{"product_id":"the-citizen-machine-9781479881345","title":"The Citizen Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt  the dawn of television in the early 1950s, a broad range of powerful  groups and individuals—from prominent liberal intellectuals to massive  corporations—saw in TV a unique capacity to influence the American  masses, shaping (in the words of the American philosopher Mortimer  Adler) “the ideas that should be in every citizen’s mind.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormed  in the shadow of the Cold War—amid the stirrings of the early civil  rights movement—the potential of television as a form of unofficial  government inspired corporate executives, foundation officers, and other  influential leaders to approach TV sponsorship as a powerful new avenue  for  shaping the course of American democracy. In this compelling  political history of television’s formative years, media historian Anna  McCarthy goes behind the scenes to bring back into view an entire era of  civic-minded programming and the ideas about democratic agency from  which it sprang. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on pathbreaking archival work, The Citizen Machine  poses entirely new questions about the political significance of  television. At a time when TV broadcasting is in a state of crisis, and  new media reform movements have entered political culture, here is an  original and thought-provoking history of the assumptions that have  profoundly shaped not only television but our understanding of American  citizenship itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274253709563,"sku":"9781479881345","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_ec4f5b40-57ed-458d-a697-0954b44444b8.jpg?v=1771078026","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-citizen-machine-9781479881345","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}