Wireless Nation
Defining Radio as a Domestic Technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23699768 |
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| Authors | William Boddy (0000-0002-3967-5828, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 16-43 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198711469.003.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W4388396815 |
| ISBN | 9780198711469 |
| Language | EN |
Despite Ubiquitous Claims for the revolutionary nature of the changes associated with the current transition from analogue to digital moving-image media, there is little doubt that the public’s first experiences with wireless communication 100 years ago represent a period of more traumatic uncertainty and improvisation than our own. Moreover, the fundamental economic models, institutions, programme forms, and audience practices which emerged from the first two decades of radio in the twentieth century have proven to be remarkably durable across the decades of successive technological innovations.
Aesthetics · Art · Improvisation · Period (music) · Political science · Telecommunications · Visual arts · Wireless · Engineering · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
| Highly cited | No |
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