The visible hand: Money, markets, and media evolution

Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-18

  Abrahamson, David ^a  

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EID: 0003195316     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769909807500104     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest," II.(261): Dialog file 175, item 00011759.
2. For a full explication of the historical origins of this segmentation in the periodical industry, see David Abrahamson, Magazine-Made America: The Cultural Transformation of the Postwar Periodical (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1996).
3. This concern with the technological aspects of media evolution is an almost-constant, but somewhat misguided, preoccupation of the popular consumer-computer magazines; e.g., see article by David Aubrey, "Band with Blues," Computer Shopper, February 1997, the full text of which is available at: http://www5.zdnet.com/cshopper/content/9702/cshp0038.html.
4. Though somewhat dated in its approach, the best telling of the Curtis story remains James Playstead Wood's The Curtis Magazines (NY: Roland Press, 1971).
5. At present the assignment of URL addresses, as well as domain names, is the province of a quasi-governmental, not-for-profit entity based in Reston, VA, with no policy functions. As of early 1998, the move for more differentiation in URL addresses was still only being tentatively discussed in Washington technology policy circles.
6. My own sense is that it would be a mistake to regard the impulse behind this widespread deregulatory reflex as a partisanly political one, reversible in the near future. The level of support for such policies across most of the political spectrum is a testament to its broad appeal to a large majority of the electorate.