Readings for today:
- Susan Douglas, "The Visions and Business Realities of the Inventors, 1899-1905," “Popular Culture and Populist Technology” and “The Titanic Disaster and the First Radio Regulation,” in Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (pp. 61-88, 187-239).
- Jonathan Sterne, “A Machine to Hear For Them: On the Very Possibility of Sound’s Reproduction,” Cultural Studies, 15, no. 2 (2001): 259-294.
- Kristen Haring, "The 'Freer Men' of Ham Radio: How a Technical Hobby Provided Social and Spatial Distance," Technology and Culture, Vol. 44 (2003): 734-761.
- Jody Berland, "Radio Space and Industrial Time: Music Formats, Local Narratives and Technological Mediation," Popular Music, Vol. 9, No. 2, Radio Issue (1990): 179-192.
- Derek W. Vaillant, "Sounds of Whiteness: Local Radio, Racial Formation, and Public Culture in Chicago, 1921–1935," American Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 2002): 25-66.
- Jonathan Sterne, “The mp3 as Cultural Artifact,” New Media & Society, Vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 825-842.
- Pacifica Radio Archives
- Pirate Radio USA trailer
- Archive.org (audio)
- A brief synopsis of pirate radio.
- Micropower radio around the world
