James Schwoch
Biographic Data
| ID | 793111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Schwoch |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwoch |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWOCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4021-986X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Communicating Europe
Reviewed by: Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events by Andreas Fickers and Pascal Griset James Schwoch (bio) Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events By Andreas Fickers and Pascal Griset. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. 485. It is an honor to review this magnificent contribution to the Making Europe: Technology and Transformations, 1850–2000 series previously discussed by Eda Kranakis, in the context of the s…
Waking from Paralysis
Despite decades of climate science research, existing climate actions have had limited impacts on mitigating climate change. Efforts to reduce emissions, for example, have yet to spur sufficient action to reduce the most severe effects of climate change. We draw from our experiences as Ojibwe knowledge holders and community members, scientists, and scholars to demonstrate how the lack of recognition of traditional knowledges (TK) within climate s…
War on woodpeckers
This article uses environmental perspectives as a framework for analysing mobile communication networks, platforms and devices related to fifth generation (5G) expansion. The article focuses on wooden utility poles, recent actions by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and contested Department of the Interior (DOI) interpretations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. The pell-mell expansion of 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), new…
Wired into Nature
Special Issue on Surveillance
This Editor’s Introduction discusses the interplay of surveillance issues with media and communication research
John A. Britton. Cables, Crises, and the Press
The introduction, conclusion, and 13 narrative chapters of Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866–1903 constitute an important and impressive contribution toward understanding global media over the last thirty-odd years of the nineteenth century. This book draws upon politics, diplomacy, press coverage, popular literature, and public opinion regarding hemispheric crises and…
Questions of Method in Cultural Studies
Cold War Telecommunications Strategy and the Question of German Television
(2001). Cold War Telecommunications Strategy and the Question of German Television. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 109-121
U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960
Journal Article U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947–1960. By Nancy E. Bernhard. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx, 245 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-59415-4.) Get access James Schwoch James Schwoch Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 734–735, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568892 P…
War of the Black Heavens
Journal Article War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War. By Michael Nelson. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xxii, 277 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-0479-3.) Get access James Schwoch James Schwoch Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1657, https://doi.org/10.23…
Satellites, rocketry, security and space policy
News over the Wires
News over the Wires
714 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE This is the book’s major strength—analyzing how people reacted to attempts to regulate their life by time. Stephen Salsbury Dr. Salsbury is professor of economic history at the University of Sydney. News over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844—1897. By Menahem Blondheim. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. ix + 305; tables, notes, bibliog raphy, i…
Manaus
Other| May 01 1995 Manaus: Television from the Borderless James Schwoch James Schwoch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 455–464. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-2-455 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Schwoch; Manaus: Television from the Borderless. Public Culture 1 May 1995; 7 (2): 455–464. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
TECHNOLOGYAND CULTURE Book Reviews 873 Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battlefor the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935. By Robert W. McChesney. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi+393; notes, bibliography, index. $45.00. In Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy Robert McChesney has permanently changed our historical understanding of broadcasting in the United States. This book will now become the stan…
Cold war, hegemony, postmodernism
The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 1900-1939
Origins, Paradigms, and Topographies
Selling the Sight/Site of Sound
The American home in 1935 probably had a radio set in at least one room of the house.' That set proved a continuous source of information, entertainment, and shared consciousness for families and individuals. Radio had in fifteen years moved from a curiosity to a luxury, and finally, to an indispensable apparatus of modern life. Nearly 600 stations broadcast within the United States, usually relaying one of the four major radio networks. NBC ran …
The American radio industry and international communications conferences, 1919–1927
(1987). The American radio industry and international communications conferences, 1919–1927. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 289-309
The Influence of Local History on Popular Fiction
The information age
Waking from Paralysis
Despite decades of climate science research, existing climate actions have had limited impacts on mitigating climate change. Efforts to reduce emissions, for example, have yet to spur sufficient action to reduce the most severe effects of climate change. We draw from our experiences as Ojibwe knowledge holders and community members, scientists, and scholars to demonstrate how the lack of recognition of traditional knowledges (TK) within climate s…
War of the Black Heavens
Journal Article War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War. By Michael Nelson. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xxii, 277 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-0479-3.) Get access James Schwoch James Schwoch Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1657, https://doi.org/10.23…
Cold war, hegemony, postmodernism
Selling the Sight/Site of Sound
The American home in 1935 probably had a radio set in at least one room of the house.' That set proved a continuous source of information, entertainment, and shared consciousness for families and individuals. Radio had in fifteen years moved from a curiosity to a luxury, and finally, to an indispensable apparatus of modern life. Nearly 600 stations broadcast within the United States, usually relaying one of the four major radio networks. NBC ran …
The information age
The American radio industry and international communications conferences, 1919–1927
(1987). The American radio industry and international communications conferences, 1919–1927. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 289-309
The Influence of Local History on Popular Fiction
Selling the Sight/Site of Sound
The American home in 1935 probably had a radio set in at least one room of the house.' That set proved a continuous source of information, entertainment, and shared consciousness for families and individuals. Radio had in fifteen years moved from a curiosity to a luxury, and finally, to an indispensable apparatus of modern life. Nearly 600 stations broadcast within the United States, usually relaying one of the four major radio networks. NBC ran …
Origins, Paradigms, and Topographies
Cold war, hegemony, postmodernism
The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 1900-1939
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
TECHNOLOGYAND CULTURE Book Reviews 873 Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battlefor the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935. By Robert W. McChesney. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi+393; notes, bibliography, index. $45.00. In Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy Robert McChesney has permanently changed our historical understanding of broadcasting in the United States. This book will now become the stan…
News over the Wires
News over the Wires
714 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE This is the book’s major strength—analyzing how people reacted to attempts to regulate their life by time. Stephen Salsbury Dr. Salsbury is professor of economic history at the University of Sydney. News over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844—1897. By Menahem Blondheim. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. ix + 305; tables, notes, bibliog raphy, i…
Manaus
Other| May 01 1995 Manaus: Television from the Borderless James Schwoch James Schwoch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 455–464. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-2-455 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Schwoch; Manaus: Television from the Borderless. Public Culture 1 May 1995; 7 (2): 455–464. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
Satellites, rocketry, security and space policy
War of the Black Heavens
Journal Article War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War. By Michael Nelson. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xxii, 277 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-0479-3.) Get access James Schwoch James Schwoch Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1657, https://doi.org/10.23…
U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960
Journal Article U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947–1960. By Nancy E. Bernhard. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx, 245 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-59415-4.) Get access James Schwoch James Schwoch Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 734–735, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568892 P…
Cold War Telecommunications Strategy and the Question of German Television
(2001). Cold War Telecommunications Strategy and the Question of German Television. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 109-121
Questions of Method in Cultural Studies
Special Issue on Surveillance
This Editor’s Introduction discusses the interplay of surveillance issues with media and communication research
John A. Britton. Cables, Crises, and the Press
The introduction, conclusion, and 13 narrative chapters of Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866–1903 constitute an important and impressive contribution toward understanding global media over the last thirty-odd years of the nineteenth century. This book draws upon politics, diplomacy, press coverage, popular literature, and public opinion regarding hemispheric crises and…
Wired into Nature
War on woodpeckers
This article uses environmental perspectives as a framework for analysing mobile communication networks, platforms and devices related to fifth generation (5G) expansion. The article focuses on wooden utility poles, recent actions by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and contested Department of the Interior (DOI) interpretations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. The pell-mell expansion of 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), new…
Communicating Europe
Reviewed by: Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events by Andreas Fickers and Pascal Griset James Schwoch (bio) Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events By Andreas Fickers and Pascal Griset. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. 485. It is an honor to review this magnificent contribution to the Making Europe: Technology and Transformations, 1850–2000 series previously discussed by Eda Kranakis, in the context of the s…
Waking from Paralysis
Despite decades of climate science research, existing climate actions have had limited impacts on mitigating climate change. Efforts to reduce emissions, for example, have yet to spur sufficient action to reduce the most severe effects of climate change. We draw from our experiences as Ojibwe knowledge holders and community members, scientists, and scholars to demonstrate how the lack of recognition of traditional knowledges (TK) within climate s…
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