Micro Radio and the FCC Media Activism and the Struggle over Broadcast Policy

Name: Micro Radio and the FCC Media Activism and the Struggle over Broadcast Policy
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ISBN: 9780275979140

ISBN-10: 0275979148

ISBN-13: 9780275979140

Edition: 2004

Authors: Andrew Opel

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Micro Radio became a lightening rod for the emerging Media Activism and Reform Movement. Like the environmental movement in the 1960s and 70s that focused on specific issues like nuclear power, the Media Activism Movement discovered a significant formative issue in micro radio at the turn of the millennium. This book is a close examination of the struggle over micro radio. Throughout this research micro radio is viewed as a site of social activity, a unique cultural and historical bond where ideas about the relationship between media and democracy are explored. This work is the first to spotlight this emerging social movement and uses critical historical analysis to provide a description of…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Watching a Media Movement Work



A Typology for Media Activism: A Social Movement about Media and Democracy



Activists On-Line: The Micro Radio Network Listserv (MRN) and the Process of Defining a Movement



Public Radio and Christians: Micro Radio Activists Struggle to Define "the Other"



Representing Micro Radio: Newspaper Coverage of the Micro Radio Issue, 1998-2000



Micro Radio and the Government: Looking for Activist Discourse in FCC Policy



U.S. Congress Intervenes: The Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000


Conclusion: Re-Cognizing Media and a Movement


Bibliography


Index