Micro Radio and the FCC: Media Activism and the Struggle by Andrew Opel

Micro Radio grew to become a lightening rod for the rising Media Activism and Reform move. just like the environmental stream within the Sixties and 70s that curious about particular concerns like nuclear energy, the Media Activism circulate came upon an important formative factor in micro radio on the flip of the millennium. This booklet is an in depth exam of the fight over micro radio. all through this study micro radio is seen as a domain of social job, a special cultural and historic bond the place rules in regards to the courting among media and democracy are explored. This paintings is the 1st to focus on this rising social circulation and makes use of severe ancient research to supply an outline of it.

The info during this booklet exhibits the fight over micro radio because the most modern manifestation of a turning out to be social move, a circulate of media activism and reform. As area people took to the airwaves, illegally broadcasting the frivolous to the intense, theoretical recommendations reminiscent of localism and public entry without notice grew to become grounded in a true global radio exhibit. Micro radio broadcasters have been in a position to show what's passed over of so much mainstream media. They confirmed what may well occur while a various public is permitted to entry the main common telecommunications of the day. This examine micro radio might be worthwhile to communications scholars who're drawn to the techniques in the back of media and social hobbies, replacement media, and information media practices.