• Booming at the Margins: Ethnic Radio, Intimacy, and Nonlinear Innovation in Media

    Author(s):
    Larisa Mann (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Ethnomusicology, Law, Technology and Society, Music and Sound
    Subject(s):
    Ethnology--Study and teaching, Identity (Psychology), Technology
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Radio, Piracy, Ethnic studies, Identity and technology
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/db12-vh72
    Abstract:
    Pirate radio still flourishes in dense, multiethnic cities such as Brooklyn, New York, despite the rise of Web radio. For immigrants in particular, radio sounds mark identity and community and (re)claim social spaces of work, commutes, and the home. It is not only lack of access to digital technologies or broadband that shapes radio’s relevance, but also marginalized communities’ specific needs, histories, and values. Paying more attention to embodied social engagement with ethnic pirate radio illuminates key dynamics in how and when communities adapt or adopt new technology or integrate it into “old” technology. The power to make culture more autonomously is important for communities that exist in a hostile cultural environment that seeks to limit or shape their presence. Radio centers specific values unaccounted for in dominant discussions of radio: collective intimacy and synchronous listening, which help to produce that cultural autonomy.
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    Published as:
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    Publisher:
    USC Annenberg Press
    Pub. Date:
    2019
    Journal:
    International Journal of Communication
    Volume:
    13
    ISSN:
    1932-8036
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    Attribution

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