The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public

摘要

The Listener's Voice conjures a world of vibrant democratic interchange in early radio broadcasting: amateur radio enthusiasts exchanging distance cards by mail, call-in radio shows, soap opera fans suggesting plot twists and scolding the writers, and audiences alternately complying with and resisting efforts to study their behaviors and tastes. This careful, enlightening monograph is well-situated within and expands upon a growing body of scholarship that explores the social landscape of emerging mass-media technologies in the early twentieth century, particularly radio.