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  • Challenging Digital Utopianism: Electronic Imaginaries and the Second Century of Radio

    Author(s):
    Christina Dunbar-Hester (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Science and Technology Studies (STS)
    Subject(s):
    Communication, Associations, institutions, etc.--Sociological aspects, Ethnology, Science--Study and teaching, Technology--Study and teaching, Digital media
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Media Activism, utopianism, Community radio, Sociology of organizations, Ethnography, Radio, Science and technology studies (STS), Information
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ngvb-7d65
    Abstract:
    This chapter explores a case of activism to promote FM broadcasting in the USA at the turn of the millennium, using data drawn from a large ethnographic project. These radio activists provide a unique site for analysing new media adoption and resistance; as technologically savvy critics of Internet utopianism, they are not dismissible as mere ‘Luddites’ or nostalgic radio hobbyists. Though features of this case are unique within a national policy context, it offers wider lessons for thinking about electronic communication and the future of civic life. In particular, the radio activists give voice to often overlooked values in electronic communication, including alternatives to ‘informational’ discourses, an insistence on contextual knowledge with community accountability, and de-emphasis of commercialism and market values. The values they ascribe to FM radio have significance as material properties of this medium but even more so as metaphorical entailments applicable to other media.
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    Publisher:
    Routledge
    Pub. Date:
    2019
    Book Title:
    Media Management and Digital Transformation
    Author/Editor:
    Arne L. Bygdås, Stewart Clegg, Aina Landsverk Hagen, eds.
    Chapter:
    9
    Page Range:
    103 - 115
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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