| My dissertation is a contemporary political economic analysis of the various dimensions of advanced digital television, such as spectrum management, standard setting, and equipment production, and the system's contentious development as it converges with computer technologies and the Internet. It is an examination of how components from the current commercial television system will carry over as constitutive parts of next generation TV and new media more generally in the 21st century, and how shifting industry structures and government policies underlie digital commodities.;In a broad sense, this work represents an attempt to understand the process of property creation in the communication sectors, and the development of communication commodities for the global market. I use the development of the US advanced digital television system as a case study of how this transformation takes place. In the course of the dissertation, however, other issues are addressed. Including ways in which the various components of the current broadcast system became points of contention in the development of DTV because of the system's looming convergence with the Internet and computing technologies.;Revisiting the historical construction of advanced television development is particularly critical since none of the DTV scholarship, such as Joel Brinkley's Defining Vision or Michel Dupagne and Peter Seel's High Definition Television: A Global Perspective, takes a property creation approach. My property creation analysis will show how the emerging era of television both carries over and transforms political economic structures in television. |
