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Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism

Christina Dunbar-Hester

Print publication date: 2014

Print ISBN-13: 9780262028127

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: May 2015

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028127.001.0001

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Making Old Technology Anew:

Making Old Technology Anew:

Reinventing FM Radio in the Twenty-First Century

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(p.129) 6 Making Old Technology Anew
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Low Power to the People
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Christina Dunbar-Hester

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The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262028127.003.0007

This chapter examines the discursive practices by which LPFM advocates attempted to redefine radio’s use and meaning. During the 1990s and 2000s, radio broadcasting (a familiar and decades-old technology) remained the site of intense contestation (even in the wake of digital media and Internet-based technologies). Radio activists (and other advocates, with whom they were not always in accord) defined FM radio as noncommercial, well-suited to local or community-level use, and a medium for political expression and organizing.

Keywords:   non-commercialism, musical programming, news and public affairs, cultural programming, broadcasting, localism, politics of technology, Low-Power FM (LPFM), FM radio, community media

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