{"product_id":"barriers-down-diana-lemberg-9780231182171","title":"Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media","description":"\u003cp\u003eFreedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States' First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. \u003ci\u003eBarriers Down\u003c\/i\u003e reveals its unexpected origins in political, economic, and cultural battles over analog media in the mid-twentieth century. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world after 1945 under the banner of the \"free flow of information,\" showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarriers Down\u003c\/i\u003e considers debates over civil liberties and censorship in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere alongside Americans' efforts to circumvent foreign regulatory systems in the quest to expand markets and bring their ideas to new publics. Lemberg shows how in the decades following the Second World War American free-flow policies reshaped the world's information landscape, though not always as intended. Through burgeoning information diplomacy and development aid, Washington diffused new media ranging from television and satellite broadcasting to global English. But these actions also spurred overseas actors to articulate alternative understandings of information freedom and of how information flows might be regulated. Bridging the historiographies of the United States in the world, human rights, decolonization and development, and media and technology, \u003ci\u003eBarriers Down\u003c\/i\u003e excavates the analog roots of digital-age debates over the politics and ethics of transnational information flows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diana Lemberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231182171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231182171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Diana Lemberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44126666293503,"sku":"9780231182171","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bea0674f-8ab3-4e0e-b1b3-5e48f86189ab.jpg?v=1687449461","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/barriers-down-diana-lemberg-9780231182171","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}