Search Results for radio technology

...Yingchuan Yang Abstract In the 1950s and 1960s, rural radio networks were erected all across China, operated and maintained by local residents who worked as technicians, correspondents, and broadcasters. This article introduces the radio network as a complex and diverse technological infrastructure...

... of Minnesota Press, 1997); Jason Loviglio, Radio’s Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-­ Mediated Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005). The field of technology studies has been fruitfully combined with sound studies in works such as Karin Bijsterveld...

... of residents identified the new technology of radio loudspeakers as a primary source of annoyance, particularly 34   Radical History Review in the area surrounding Greenwich Street’s Radio Row.5 The loudspeaker had been invented in the 1860s, but the technology did not become commercially viable...

..., in terms of building power through an organizational infrastructure, to use radio. Now, working with urban high school students, it’s much more about new media, social media, Facebook, video production. So there are moments when figuring out what the sexiest, most cutting-­edge technology can deliver...

... no-man’s-land, spurring new questions and new stakes in international regulation and cooperative technological governance. High-frequency radio broadcasting was arguably satellites’ closest technological antecedent, and could perhaps provide an entry point for building regulatory norms. 49...

...-­frequency, long wavelengths used for modern radio broadcasting to high- ­frequency, short wavelengths, such as the gamma rays employed in a wide variety of medical procedures. Our interactions with this radiation are mediated by a dizzying array of technologies, from cell phones to radios, navigation...

... for historians, what meanings did past audiences make of the aural and visual messages emanating from vaudeville shows, radio, film, or advertising, especially when such media were relatively new? What did the very experience of attending a silent film or listening to a radio show mean for immigrants...

... among the world’s nations. In the early twentieth century, similar claims were made of wireless radio communication, and each of the new communication technologies deployed in the twentieth century, from film and radio broadcasting to television, and now the Internet, has been trumpeted as being...

.... Ideology, in all its vicissitudes, is inevitably in- tertwined in this century with the most powerful mode of its dissemination yet devised: the mass media. Blanche Cook's fascinating and disquieting portrait of C. D. Jackson, publisher of Fortune, founder of Radio Free...

... and disquieting portrait of C. D. Jackson, publisher of Fortune, founder of Radio Free Europe and confidant of Dwight Eisenhower, describes what happened when, following World War 11, the tech- niques of technological hucksterism were wedded to the political requirements...

... by the broadcast spectrum itself, by 1948 technological innovation had reduced the salience of the scarcity rationale. Despite considerable discussion of technical questions, the Mayflower hearings amounted to a dispute over the proper subject of the First Amendment. Broadcasters, from the three largest radio...

... could as plausibly argue that it is atypical. The public-use charac- teristic of the public airways lent itself to consideration of statist ar- rangements that might not have been contemplated in other indus- tries; and the newness and rapidly changing technology of early radio made internal...

..., had it been realized, would have made sonic booms a regular part of daily life. This complex interplay between mili- tary and civilian technologies recalls Gabrielle Hecht and Paul Edwards’s concept of “technopolitics,” which they define as a “hybrid form of power . . . with cultural...

... movement, from 1920 to the present. Stefka Hristova is assistant professor of digital media at Michigan Technological University. She holds a PhD in visual studies from the U niversity of California, Irvine. Her research examines the digital visual cultures of war and displacement. Hossein...

... Copyright © 2000 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2000 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Paul Ashton is Senior Lecturer in Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). Past President of the Professional Historians Association of New South...

... by the mainstream, and many people will circum- vent identification systems when technologically possible. However, involuntary sub- jects such as prisoners, animals, and students have been marked with radio badges, ankle bands, or injected subdermal RFID chips. For everyday ID situations, the solution has...

... in the his- tory of the medium: the rise and decline of ethnic humor and television depictions of gender. Ethnic humor was a standard feature of American popular cul- ture both on the vaudeville stage and on network radio. It seemed therefore a natural for early TV, and many such shows...

... between access to information engendered by the worldwide penetration of new communications technologies and the local conditions that determine the circulation and reception of such information. This article explores these tensions by focusing on the extent to which leaked diplomatic cables...

... and radio producer. STEVE BRIER is Project Director of the American Working Class History Project, CW.He is also President of Film For Thought, Inc. PAUL. BUHLE directs the Oral History of the American Left at Tarxiiment Library, New York University. JUDY COFFIN is a graduate student...

... the display of a rather formalized pantheon of heroes, uniformed mannequins, guns, and pieces of old technology. A second, more elusive (though essential) brand of corporate identity points to the police as archaeologists of a hidden life. It blends symbols and professional artifacts with a display...