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Author Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976-

Title Low power to the people : pirates, protest, and politics in FM radio activism / Christina Dunbar-Hester
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Inside technology
Inside technology.
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?
Summary An examination of how activists combine political advocacy and technical practice in their promotion of the emancipatory potential of local low-power FM radio
Analysis SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Low power radio -- United States
Community radio -- United States
Alternative radio broadcasting -- United States
Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- United States
Radio broadcasting policy -- United States -- Citizen participation
Pirate radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Radio.
Alternative radio broadcasting
Community radio
Low power radio
Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects
History.
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262320498
0262320495
9780262320504
0262320509
0262028123
9780262028127