Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium

Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium

by Matthew Lasar
Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium

Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium

by Matthew Lasar

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Overview

Welcome to the uncertain world of "Radio 2.0"—where podcasts, mobile streaming, and huge music databases are the new reality, as are tweeting deejays and Apple's Siri serving as music announcer—and understand the exciting status this medium has, and will continue to have, in our digitally inclined society.

How did popular radio in past decades—from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" in the 1930s through Top 40 music and Rush Limbaugh's talk radio empire—shape American society? How did devices and systems like the iPhone, Pandora, and YouTube turban the radio industry upside-down? Does radio still have a future, and if so, what will we want it to look like?

Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium covers the history and evolution of Internet radio, explaining what came before, where Internet radio came from, and where it is likely headed. It also gives readers a frame of reference by describing radio from its introduction to American audiences in the 1920s—a medium that brought people together through a common experience of the same broadcast—and shows how technologies like digital music and streaming music services put into question the very definition of "radio." By examining new radio and media technologies, the book explores an important societal trend: the shift of media toward individualized or personalized forms of consumption.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440832437
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/14/2016
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Matthew Lasar, PhD, holds a doctorate in history from the Claremont Graduate School and teaches history and media courses at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 Songs about Radio 1

Chapter 2 Eve of Chaos 19

Chapter 3 The Age of Pandora 31

Chapter 4 Talkers and Texters in Space 57

Chapter 5 I'm Still Here! 91

Chapter 6 Signs of Hope 121

Chapter 7 Conclusion: A History of Radio's Future 131

Timelines 143

Notes 147

Glossary 175

Index 179

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