Article ID: CBB001180356

“Free the spectrum!” Activist encounters with old and new media technology (2009)

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Description This article contextualizes discourses surrounding new media technologies by examining activism around community media, using as a case study an activist group which has advocated for greater citizen access to low-power FM (LPFM) radio since the mid-1990s. It argues that the significance of new and emerging communication technologies can be grasped most effectively when emerging technologies are considered in a dynamic field that includes older technologies; emerging technologies are viewed often through the lens of patterns of use and interpretation of older technologies, at least initially. The article follows the activists' assessments of not only FM radio but emerging internet-based technologies, including webstreaming and wi-fi networks. In practice, the activists circumspectly negotiate expanding their efforts to encompass community wi-fi networks, while trying to retain the vision, flavor and organizing strategies from their LPFM campaigns. (Abstract from http://nms.sagepub.com/content/11/1-2/221.abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Bjornstad, David J.
Falcone, Santa
Maar, Henry Richard, III
Keys, Barbara
Turner, Fred
Stewart, Bruce E.
Concepts
Political activists and activism
Technology and politics
Radio
Technology and society
Environmentalism
Cold War
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
North Carolina (U.S.)
Great Britain
Institutions
Sandia National Laboratories (United States)
Tennessee Valley Authority
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