Connections: A Broadcast History Reader

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Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003 - Broadcasting - 376 pages
This edited volume of 19 readings is designed to complement and enhance the main text ONLY CONNECT: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF BROADCASTING. Readings span and cover the key eras of broadcast development.

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How Are Media Born?
3
Progressive Ideology Epistemology and Praxis
19
Father Harney WLWL and the Debate
40
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Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has taught the history of broadcasting course for nearly two decades. She was Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication Arts for eight years and currently serves as Department Chair. Hilmes is the author or editor of several books on broadcasting history in addition to ONLY CONNECT, including NETWORK NATIONS: A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN BROADCASTING (2011); RADIO VOICES: AMERICAN BROADCASTING 1922-1952 (1997); and RADIO'S NEW WAVE: GLOBAL SOUND IN THE DIGITAL ERA (2013) as well as numerous journal and anthology articles. She is frequently invited to give presentations on U.S. cultural history, both at home and around the world.

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TitleConnections: A Broadcast History Reader
Wadsworth series in broadcasting
AuthorMichele Hilmes
PublisherThomson/Wadsworth, 2003
ISBN0534552188, 9780534552183
Length376 pages
  
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