TY - BOOK
T1 - The wireless world
T2 - global histories of international radio broadcasting
AU - Potter, Simon J.
AU - Clayton, David
AU - Kind-Kovács, Friederike
AU - Kuitenbrouwer, Vincent
AU - Ribeiro, Nelson
AU - Scales, Rebecca
AU - Stanton, Andrea L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The various authors 2022.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - This book sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a genuinely co-written book, the result of more than five years of collaboration. Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries, languages, and archives, the co-authors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion. They also demonstrate that by paying more attention to audiences, programmes, and soundscapes, historians of international broadcasting can make important contributions to wider debates in social and cultural history. Exploring the idea of a ‘wireless world’, a globe connected, both in imagination and reality, by radio, this book sheds new light on the transnational connections created by international broadcasting. Bringing together all periods of international broadcasting within a single analytical frame, including the pioneering days of wireless, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it reveals key continuities and transformations. It looks at how wireless was shaped by internationalist ideas about the use of broadcasting to promote world peace and understanding, at how empires used broadcasting to perpetuate colonialism, and at how anti-colonial movements harnessed radio as a weapon of decolonization.
AB - This book sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a genuinely co-written book, the result of more than five years of collaboration. Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries, languages, and archives, the co-authors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion. They also demonstrate that by paying more attention to audiences, programmes, and soundscapes, historians of international broadcasting can make important contributions to wider debates in social and cultural history. Exploring the idea of a ‘wireless world’, a globe connected, both in imagination and reality, by radio, this book sheds new light on the transnational connections created by international broadcasting. Bringing together all periods of international broadcasting within a single analytical frame, including the pioneering days of wireless, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it reveals key continuities and transformations. It looks at how wireless was shaped by internationalist ideas about the use of broadcasting to promote world peace and understanding, at how empires used broadcasting to perpetuate colonialism, and at how anti-colonial movements harnessed radio as a weapon of decolonization.
KW - Global history
KW - International broadcasting
KW - Internationalism
KW - Media history
KW - Propaganda
KW - Radio
KW - Soft power
KW - Transnationalism
KW - Wireless
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144384232&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780192864987.001.0001
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780192864987.001.0001
M3 - Book
SN - 9780192864987
BT - The wireless world
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -