The radio hobby, private associations, and the challenge of modernity in Germany / Bruce B. Campbell.
2019
TK6548.G4
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Title
The radio hobby, private associations, and the challenge of modernity in Germany / Bruce B. Campbell.
ISBN
9783030265342 (electronic book)
303026534X (electronic book)
9783030265335
3030265331
303026534X (electronic book)
9783030265335
3030265331
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (369 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-030-26534-2 doi
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TK6548.G4
Dewey Decimal Classification
384.5409
Summary
In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood. A powerful symbol of modernity, radio was a site where individuals wrestled and came to terms with an often frightening wave of new mass technologies. Radio was the object of scientific investigation, but more importantly, it was the domain of tinkerers, ?hackers,? citizen scientists, and hobbyists. This book shows how this wild and mysterious technology was appropriated by ordinary individuals in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century as a leisure activity. Clubs and hobby organizations became the locus of this process, providing many of the social structures within which individuals could come to grips with radio, apart from any media institution or government framework. In so doing, this book uncovers the vital but often overlooked social context in which technological revolutions unfold.
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In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood. A powerful symbol of modernity, radio was a site where individuals wrestled and came to terms with an often frightening wave of new mass technologies. Radio was the object of scientific investigation, but more importantly, it was the domain of tinkerers, ?hackers,? citizen scientists, and hobbyists. This book shows how this wild and mysterious technology was appropriated by ordinary individuals in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century as a leisure activity. Clubs and hobby organizations became the locus of this process, providing many of the social structures within which individuals could come to grips with radio, apart from any media institution or government framework. In so doing, this book uncovers the vital but often overlooked social context in which technological revolutions unfold.
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Beginnings: Radio in the 1920s
3. German Radio Before Broadcasting: Scientists, War, and Imperialism
4. Technology and the Radio Hobby Mature, 19271929
5. The Nazification of the Radio Clubs, 19291935
6. The Radio Hobby in the Service of National Socialism, 19351945
7. The Radio Hobby Comes in from the Cold, 19451955
8. Conclusions and Questions.
2. The Beginnings: Radio in the 1920s
3. German Radio Before Broadcasting: Scientists, War, and Imperialism
4. Technology and the Radio Hobby Mature, 19271929
5. The Nazification of the Radio Clubs, 19291935
6. The Radio Hobby in the Service of National Socialism, 19351945
7. The Radio Hobby Comes in from the Cold, 19451955
8. Conclusions and Questions.