Christopher H. Sterling
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Christopher H. Sterling's Degrees
- PhD Communication Stanford University
- Masters Communication Stanford University
- Bachelors Journalism University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher H. Sterling was an American media historian. Sterling was professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University where he taught from 1982. Author of numerous books on electronic media and telecommunications plus a host of research and bibliographic articles, his primary research interests centered upon the history and policy development of electronic media and telecommunications. He regularly taught courses in media law and federal regulation and society. He was an acting chair in the early 1990s and served as associate dean for graduate studies in arts and sciences from 1994 to 2001.
Christopher H. Sterling's Published Works
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- Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century (2011) (171)
- Stay tuned: A concise history of American broadcasting (1978) (166)
- Stay Tuned : A History of American Broadcasting (2001) (71)
- Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960 (2000) (51)
- Broadcasting in America: A Survey of Electronic Media (1989) (47)
- The Mass Media: Aspen Institute Guide to Communication Industry Trends (1978) (46)
- The irony of regulatory reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications by Robert Britt Horwitz Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA, 1989, 414 pp, $39.95. (1990) (43)
- The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (2010) (38)
- Encyclopedia of Journalism (2009) (35)
- Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe (2011) (33)
- Shaping American Telecommunications: A History of Technology, Policy, and Economics (2005) (33)
- Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method (2011) (25)
- Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future (2011) (25)
- The History of Television, 1942 to 2000 (2003) (20)
- When News Was New (2011) (17)
- The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America (2010) (16)
- Trends in Daily Newspaper and Broadcast Ownership, 1922–1970 (1975) (15)
- Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America by Christopher H. Sterling and Michael C. Keith Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008,317 pp. Reviewed by Roger Heinrich Middle Tennessee State University (2009) (15)
- The FCC and Changing Technological Standards (1982) (15)
- Terror Post 9/11 and the Media (2011) (15)
- Electronic Media: A Guide to Trends in Broadcasting and Newer Technologies 1920-1983 (1986) (15)
- Encyclopedia of radio (2004) (15)
- Refiguring Mass Communication: A History (2011) (14)
- TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition: How Journalists Adapt to Technology (2011) (13)
- The Rise of Radio Studies: Scholarly Books Over Four Decades (2009) (13)
- Broadcasting in America : a survey of television, radio, and new technologies (1982) (11)
- Television: An International History of the Formative Years (1999) (10)
- The concise encyclopedia of American radio (2010) (8)
- Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media, 3rd Ed (2012) (8)
- Review and Criticism: Invited Essay—Where Have All the Historians Gone? A Challenge to Researchers (2006) (7)
- Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947 (2005) (7)
- Newspaper Ownership of Broadcast Stations, 1920–68 (1969) (7)
- The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives (2011) (7)
- Mass News: Practices, Controversies, and Alternatives. (1973) (6)
- High-Definition Television as Policy Failure (2003) (5)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Reality Television: Scholarly Treatments Since 2000 (2009) (5)
- Radio and the telecommunications act of 1996: An initial assessment (1997) (5)
- Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (review) (2009) (4)
- Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature (2011) (4)
- Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio (2013) (4)
- Transformation: The 1996 Act Reshapes Radio (2006) (4)
- Pioneering Risk: Lessons from the US Teletext/Videotex Failure (2006) (4)
- Decade of Development: FM Radio in the 1960s (1971) (4)
- The NBC Advisory Council and Radio Programming, 1926–1945 (2010) (4)
- The Meaning in the Name. (1985) (3)
- Convergence Media History (2011) (3)
- Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media (review) (2011) (3)
- Indelible Images: Women of Local Television / Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting / Women and Radio: Airing Differences (2002) (3)
- WTMJ‐FM: A case study in the development of FM broadcasting (1968) (3)
- Critical connections: Communication for the Future by Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990, 395 pp, $17.00 (1990) (3)
- The Restructuring of Scholarly Publishing in the United States, 1980-2001: A Resource-Based Analysis of University Presses (2010) (3)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY (Part Two): International Radio Propaganda in World War II (2004) (2)
- The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst. Kenneth Whyte. Berkeley, CA: (2011) (2)
- Critique of the changing role of the journal of broadcasting & electronic media (1991) (2)
- PUBLIC BROADCASTING: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (1980) (2)
- Ken Burns's America (2002) (2)
- International telecommunications and information policy (1984) (2)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Histories of Computers...From Aiken to Zuse (2002) (2)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: U.S. Telecommunications Policy Since the 1996 Act (2000) (2)
- Book Review—Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Radio Nation: Communication, Popular Culture, and Nationalism in Mexico, 1920–1950 (2001) (2)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Radio References II: People and Programs (2005) (2)
- The History of MCI: The Early Years, 1968-1988 Philip L. Cantelon (1995) (2)
- Arguing for a General Framework for Mass Media Scholarship (2011) (1)
- Broadcasting Textbooks: 1971-72. (1973) (1)
- Privatizing Russian radio: a post-perestroika perspective (2004) (1)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Development of Television to 1960-A Guide to Current Resources (2000) (1)
- Encyclopedia of Radio 3-Volume Set (2004) (1)
- Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television, Patrick R. Parsons. Temple University Press, Philadelphia (2008). 810 pp., Hardback, $59.95, ISBN: 978-1-59213-287-4 (2008) (1)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Satellite Communications History (2005) (1)
- Book Review: Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media, 3rd Ed, edited by Susan Dente Ross and Paul Martin Lester (2012) (1)
- Patrick R. Parsons. Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television (2010) (1)
- Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television (review) (2011) (1)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: Editorial/Political Cartoons (2013) (1)
- Telecommunications Research Resources: An Annotated Guide (1995) (1)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Going Mobile: Rise and Impact of the Cell Phone, Part I (2010) (1)
- Sound Recognition of Historical Visibility: The Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress: Introduction (2016) (1)
- Assessing European policies in transition: ‘Monacom '96: International Symposium of Telecommunications—Policies, Regulations, Alliances in Europe and Throughout the World’ Forum International in cooperation with IDATE, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco, 22–23 March 1996 (1996) (1)
- 5. Breaking Chains: NBC and the FCC Network Inquiry, 1938–43 (2019) (1)
- An Appreciation of Erik Barnouw's A History of Broadcasting in the United States (2013) (1)
- 7. Others (2015) (1)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY 1: Histories of Computer Programming and Software: From ALGOL to Windows XP (2003) (1)
- Second service: Some keys to the development of FM broadcasting (1971) (1)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY (Part One): Overall Histories of International Radio Propaganda (2004) (1)
- Understanding the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1997) (1)
- Review and Criticism: Research Pioneer Tribute—Sydney W. Head (1913–1991): Remembering the Founder of Modern Broadcasting Studies (2006) (1)
- Privatizing the economy: Telecommunications policy in comparative perspective: Raymond M. Duch, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1991, 288 pp (1996) (1)
- Radio Broadcasting: Pre-1945 (2003) (1)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Biographies of Early Wireless/Radio Inventors (2006) (1)
- Book Review: The Handbook of Internet Studies, edited by Mia Consalvo and Charles Ess (2012) (1)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Steve Jobs and Apple Computer (2012) (1)
- History of Telecommunications Technology: An Annotated Bibliography (2000) (0)
- A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet (2011) (0)
- Book Review: The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives, edited by Marwan M. Kraidy and Katherine Sender (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews: Book Review Policy (2002) (0)
- 2. CBQ ESSAY REVIEW: IBM's First Century (2012) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Global Histories of Communication by Christopher H. Sterling (2007) (0)
- Radio programming to 1945 (2007) (0)
- International and comparative systems (1999) (0)
- Radio's changing technology, 1920-1945 (2007) (0)
- 11. Others (2015) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: The Rise of Recorded Sound, Part 2 (2011) (0)
- Book Review: Empires of Entertainment: Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980–1996 (2013) (0)
- 3. Popular Culture (2015) (0)
- The telecommunications deregulation sourcebook edited by Stuart N. Brotman Artech House, Boston and London 1987, 343 pp, $60.00 (1988) (0)
- American Electronic Media: A Survey Bibliography (2016) (0)
- 12. Motion Pictures (2008) (0)
- 3F. Media Theory (2015) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: THE RISE OF RECORDED SOUND, PART 1 (2011) (0)
- 4. Popular Culture (2015) (0)
- 3. Media and Democracy (2015) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Pioneering Educational Radio (2009) (0)
- Listening and research (2007) (0)
- Policy and regulation (2009) (0)
- American Radio in China: International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919–41 by Michael Krysko (review) (2014) (0)
- Book Review: The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920, by David Hochfelder (2013) (0)
- The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself (2014) (0)
- CBQ review essay: (B) Cryptography in 20th‐century history: Another dozen (1999) (0)
- 1. Centennial Review Essay: Communications and World War I (Part One) (2014) (0)
- How Television Invented New Media (2012) (0)
- A Few General Notes (1970) (0)
- Book Review: Media in Europe Today, edited by Josef Trappel, Werner A. Meier, Leen D’Haenens, Jeannette Steemers, and Barbara Thomass (2012) (0)
- America's First Network TV Censor: The Work of NBC's Stockton Heiffrich (2011) (0)
- 1. CBQ Centennial Review Essay: Communications and World War I (Part Two) (2014) (0)
- The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives (2012) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Pioneering Educational Television (2010) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Wireless at Sea (2012) (0)
- Media in Europe Today (2012) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: Computer History Since 2002 (2012) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: Development of Motion Picture Technology (2014) (0)
- Working the System (2002) (0)
- A Word of Introduction... (1969) (0)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE (PART ONE): Invention, Innovation, and Impact (2004) (0)
- Television, Role of: 1945–1975 (2003) (0)
- Book Review: The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself, by Andrew Pettegree (2014) (0)
- Book Review: The Ashgate Research Companion to Media Geography, edited by Paul C. Adams, Jim Craine, and Jason Dittmer (2015) (0)
- Rushed to Judgment: Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior / Dirty Discourse: Sex and Indecency in American Radio / Emergency Broadcasting and 1930s American Radio (2004) (0)
- British and European communications (1999) (0)
- The Media Sourcebook: Comparative Reviews and Listings of Textbooks in Mass Communications. (1974) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY 1: Presidents and Journalists (2009) (0)
- Patrick R. Parsons. Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008. ix + 805 pp. ISBN 978-1-59213-287-4, $61.95 (cloth) (2010) (0)
- Comics, cartoons, and animation (1999) (0)
- The Television Entrepreneurs: Social Change and Public Understanding of Business (2012) (0)
- The Magazine Century: American Magazines since 1900 (2011) (0)
- Book Review: Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past (2013) (0)
- Some Final Notes (1971) (0)
- American wireless to 1920 (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews: Book Review Policy (2011) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) History (Part I) (2008) (0)
- Acknowledgments, Foreword, and Introduction (1992) (0)
- Book Review: Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International System in the Americas, 1866-1903, by John A. Britton (2014) (0)
- Telecommunications programs at George Washington University (1988) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Developing American Media Audience Research (2009) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: Children's Fiction on Telegraph, Radio and Television (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (1995) (0)
- Book Review—Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio (2001) (0)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY 1: Histories of Military Communications (2003) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: Motion Picture Theaters (2013) (0)
- The Golden Age of Programming (2018) (0)
- Book Review: Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium, edited by Angeliki Gazi, Guy Starkey, and Stanislaw Jedrzejewski (2012) (0)
- Book Review: Us Against Them: The Political Culture of Talk Radio by Randy Bobbitt (2012) (0)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Journalism: Encyclopedias and Reference Books Since 1985 (2006) (0)
- Book Review: Televising History: Mediating the Past in Postwar Europe, edited by Erin Bell and Ann Gray (2012) (0)
- 6. New Media and International Communication (2015) (0)
- Radio Broadcasting: Post-1945 (2003) (0)
- News Agency History and Operations: Book and Web Resources (2003) (0)
- Trends in a Half-Century of Broadcast Station and Daily Newspaper Ownership 1922-1970. (1974) (0)
- Book Review: Techno Politics in Presidential Campaigning: New Voices, New Technologies, and New Voters, edited by John Allen Hendricks and Lynda Lee Kaid (2012) (0)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Radio References III: Industry, Technology, Minorities, Policy (2005) (0)
- Churchill and Strategic Dilemmas before the World Wars: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (2005) (0)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY Cryptography in 20th-Century History (Part 3): Another Dozen (2002) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: CRISIS IN JOURNALISM, PART II (2011) (0)
- Reviews [review of two books] (2008) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY:Histories of Land Telegraphy (2004) (0)
- Media Cross-Ownership and Cable TV in the USA (1981) (0)
- Book Review: The International Distribution of News: The Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848-1947, by Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (2014) (0)
- 3E. New Media (2015) (0)
- CBQ review essay:Cryptography in 20th‐century history (1999) (0)
- Book Review: The International Television News Agencies: The World from London by Chris Paterson (2012) (0)
- 2. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY 2: Reporting on Wars and the Military (Part 2) (2009) (0)
- First of all (1970) (0)
- Editorial Note: Transition (2014) (0)
- Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I. By Jonathan Reed Winkler. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. x, 347 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02839-5.) (2009) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) History (Part II) (2008) (0)
- Book Review: After Broadcast News: Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment by Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini (2012) (0)
- 6. Telecommunications (2015) (0)
- A Brief Re-Introduction (1970) (0)
- Foreign and international systems (1998) (0)
- Overcoming Impediments to New Technology. A Summary of the Third Invitational Postsecondary Educational Review Panel. (1983) (0)
- “A Few of My Favorite Things”—A Half-Century of Broadcasting and Telecommunications (2019) (0)
- Foreign and International (2002) (0)
- Technology and society (1998) (0)
- Mass media business (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age (2013) (0)
- Early FM Radio: Incremental Technology in Twentieth-Century America. By Gary L. Frost. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xi + 191 pp. Illustrations, figures, glossary, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89440-4 (2011) (0)
- 2. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Reporting Wars and the Military (Part 1) (2009) (0)
- Book and video reviews (1999) (0)
- 4. Popular Culture (2015) (0)
- Book Review: How Television Invented New Media by Sheila C. Murphy (2012) (0)
- Special feature: Seeking influence: The dozen most important electronic media books since 1956 (1996) (0)
- CBQ REVIEW ESSAY 2: HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE (PART 2) (2005) (0)
- Book Review: The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the American Public by Elena Razlogova (2012) (0)
- A word of (re) introduction (1998) (0)
- General and reference (1999) (0)
- CBQ ESSAY REVIEW: Wireless Pioneer: Biographies of Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) (2006) (0)
- 5. Media and Politics (2015) (0)
- The business of radio (2007) (0)
- CBQ CLASSICSVintage Works Still Relevant Today (2019) (0)
- A Guide to Television Books. (1974) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: Going Mobile: Rise and Impact of the Cell Phone, Part II (2010) (0)
- The First Improbable Century of Cosmopolitan Magazine (2011) (0)
- The Transforming Power of Information Technology. (Mini-Forum: Ensuring the IT Workforce of the Future) (2001) (0)
- Book Review: The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865–1950 (2012) (0)
- A Final Word of Importance (1970) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: Studies of Codebreaking Since 2002 (2013) (0)
- Review and Criticism: Research Pioneer Tribute—Erik Barnouw (1908–2001): Broadcasting's Premier Historian (2005) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Political Blacklisting in the Media (2012) (0)
- European and international communication (2009) (0)
- Book Review: One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television, by Murray Forman and The Television Entrepreneurs: Social Change and Public Understanding of Business, by Raymond Boyle and Lisa W. Kelly (2013) (0)
- Book of the Month (1978) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: CRISIS IN JOURNALISM (PART I) (2011) (0)
- A Special Note... (1970) (0)
- 5. Electronic Media (2015) (0)
- 3A. Electronic Media (2015) (0)
- 1. CBQ Review Essay: Global Telecommunication Company History (2008) (0)
- 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Innovating Digital Television (2010) (0)
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