Low power to the people : pirates, protest, and politics in FM radio activism / Christina Dunbar-Hester.

Author
Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]
  • ©2014
Description
xxvi, 271 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Inside technology [More in this series]
    Summary note
    The United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when it began issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial radio stations around the country. Over the next decade, several hundred of these newly created low-wattage stations took to the airwaves. This book describes the practices of an activist organization focused on LPFM during this era.--Publisher's description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-257) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Pirates, Hams and Protest: Radio Activism in Historical Context
    • 2. Selfhoods: geeks, Activists and Countercultures
    • 3. The Tools of Gender Production
    • 4. The Work of Pedagogy in Technological Activism
    • 5. Fine-Tuning Boundaries
    • 6. Making Old Technology Anew: Reinventing FM Radio in the Twenty-First Century
    • 7. Do New Media have Old Politics?
    ISBN
    • 9780262028127 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0262028123 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780262534765 ((paperback))
    • 0262534762 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2014009827
    OCLC
    875771189
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