Josh Shepperd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josh Shepperd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josh |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepperd |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPPERD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Media and Communication Studies, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introducing the Special Series “Sound History Is Cultural History”
This special series features the collaborative work of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force. The task force is a national clearinghouse project that brings together researchers from academic, archival, federal, and commercial sectors. Pieces in the series discuss RPTF participant commitments and strategies regarding the preservation and curation of the cultural history of sound. The first pieces in the series feature the research…
Educating the Public
This chapter analyzes the unique origins and structure of American public radio as neither a national broadcaster along European lines nor a commercial enterprise, but a highly localized system originally based on educational goals defined by the needs of public educators and carried out initially by state universities and educational institutions. It examines the limits and pressures that were exerted over educational radio as advocates and prac…
Shadow of the New Deal
Pulling from detailed archival research, Shadow of the New Deal examines how the media reform movement built the infrastructure for US public media during the 1930s. After the Communications Act of 1934 decimated access to broadcast licenses for noncommercial media, an advocacy movement emerged that applied trial-and-error, system-building strategies to change American media policy to increase equal access to education through technology. Among r…
Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941
Through detailed archival analysis of personal letters, this article examines how the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934 inspired the formation of the Princeton Radio Research Project (PRRP), and influenced Paul Lazarsfeld’s development of two-step flows and media effects research. Buried in federal records, a post-Act Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Pursuant that mandated analysis of educational broadcasting addi…
The Political Economic Structure of Early Media Reform Before and After the Communications Act of 1934
This paper examines how early media reform work evolved from political activism into a system-building advocacy campaign in support of Schools of the Air between 1930 and 1940. Calling upon archival work that focuses on 1935–1940 records, it examines how prominent activist groups the National Committee for Education by Radio (NCER) and the National Advisory Council for Radio in Education (NACRE) shifted their strategic approaches to adjust to the…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Heidegger on Transforming the Circumspect Activity of Spatial Thought
This paper examines the relationship between Heidegger’s critique of educational comportment and his analysis of space in Being and Time. It posits that providing an educational corrective to the practice of tacit rational, described as ‘circumspection’ in Being and Time, would provide an opportunity to reorient Dasein toward clearer awareness of the spatial context. A phenomenological approach to education might be framed as a process that reorg…
Infrastructure in the Air
This paper examines the origins of the institutional organization and advocacy strategies that later culminated in American public broadcasting. Previous to the Communications Act of 1934, which privatized American broadcasting, educational radio lacked standards for best practices and functioned in a decentralized and localized form. After the Act, the Office of Education (OOE) took interest in radio as a medium to expand federal initiatives rel…
Shadow of the New Deal
Pulling from detailed archival research, Shadow of the New Deal examines how the media reform movement built the infrastructure for US public media during the 1930s. After the Communications Act of 1934 decimated access to broadcast licenses for noncommercial media, an advocacy movement emerged that applied trial-and-error, system-building strategies to change American media policy to increase equal access to education through technology. Among r…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Heidegger on Transforming the Circumspect Activity of Spatial Thought
This paper examines the relationship between Heidegger’s critique of educational comportment and his analysis of space in Being and Time. It posits that providing an educational corrective to the practice of tacit rational, described as ‘circumspection’ in Being and Time, would provide an opportunity to reorient Dasein toward clearer awareness of the spatial context. A phenomenological approach to education might be framed as a process that reorg…
Infrastructure in the Air
This paper examines the origins of the institutional organization and advocacy strategies that later culminated in American public broadcasting. Previous to the Communications Act of 1934, which privatized American broadcasting, educational radio lacked standards for best practices and functioned in a decentralized and localized form. After the Act, the Office of Education (OOE) took interest in radio as a medium to expand federal initiatives rel…
Infrastructure in the Air
This paper examines the origins of the institutional organization and advocacy strategies that later culminated in American public broadcasting. Previous to the Communications Act of 1934, which privatized American broadcasting, educational radio lacked standards for best practices and functioned in a decentralized and localized form. After the Act, the Office of Education (OOE) took interest in radio as a medium to expand federal initiatives rel…
Heidegger on Transforming the Circumspect Activity of Spatial Thought
This paper examines the relationship between Heidegger’s critique of educational comportment and his analysis of space in Being and Time. It posits that providing an educational corrective to the practice of tacit rational, described as ‘circumspection’ in Being and Time, would provide an opportunity to reorient Dasein toward clearer awareness of the spatial context. A phenomenological approach to education might be framed as a process that reorg…
The Political Economic Structure of Early Media Reform Before and After the Communications Act of 1934
This paper examines how early media reform work evolved from political activism into a system-building advocacy campaign in support of Schools of the Air between 1930 and 1940. Calling upon archival work that focuses on 1935–1940 records, it examines how prominent activist groups the National Committee for Education by Radio (NCER) and the National Advisory Council for Radio in Education (NACRE) shifted their strategic approaches to adjust to the…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941
Through detailed archival analysis of personal letters, this article examines how the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934 inspired the formation of the Princeton Radio Research Project (PRRP), and influenced Paul Lazarsfeld’s development of two-step flows and media effects research. Buried in federal records, a post-Act Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Pursuant that mandated analysis of educational broadcasting addi…
Shadow of the New Deal
Pulling from detailed archival research, Shadow of the New Deal examines how the media reform movement built the infrastructure for US public media during the 1930s. After the Communications Act of 1934 decimated access to broadcast licenses for noncommercial media, an advocacy movement emerged that applied trial-and-error, system-building strategies to change American media policy to increase equal access to education through technology. Among r…
Educating the Public
This chapter analyzes the unique origins and structure of American public radio as neither a national broadcaster along European lines nor a commercial enterprise, but a highly localized system originally based on educational goals defined by the needs of public educators and carried out initially by state universities and educational institutions. It examines the limits and pressures that were exerted over educational radio as advocates and prac…
Introducing the Special Series “Sound History Is Cultural History”
This special series features the collaborative work of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force. The task force is a national clearinghouse project that brings together researchers from academic, archival, federal, and commercial sectors. Pieces in the series discuss RPTF participant commitments and strategies regarding the preservation and curation of the cultural history of sound. The first pieces in the series feature the research…
Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Broadcasting (networking (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mandate (2 works) · Media, Journalism, and Communication History (2 works)