Posts Tagged ‘ FCC ’

Saving College Radio

Saving College Radio

Laura Schnitker writes about the importance of saving college radio archives, as college stations have the built-in resources to both save their materials and provide public access to them.
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Edgar Dale, Educational Radio, and Sensory Learning

March 16, 2015
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Edgar Dale, Educational Radio, and Sensory Learning

What makes technology educational? Brian Gregory prompts this inquiry in his consideration of how Edgar Dale's ideas about sensory learning fit into the history of educational radio and ed tech.
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What to Make of the Historic Net Neutrality Win

March 11, 2015
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What to Make of the Historic Net Neutrality Win

The FCC’s new Open Internet rules are a major come-from-behind victory for net neutrality. How in the world did this actually get done? And what exactly happens now?
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Crumbsucking the FM Dial

February 16, 2015
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Crumbsucking the FM Dial

Broadcasters are paying top-dollar for the last useable scraps of the FM spectrum. John Anderson explores the booming market in translator stations and their implications for diversity on the dial.
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“Hope” for Net Neutrality?

November 13, 2014
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“Hope” for Net Neutrality?

President Obama’s statement calling on the FCC to implement the strongest possible net neutrality regulations is significant for many reasons, including what it signals about citizen engagement in communications regulation and the politics of media policy.
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What Are You Missing? Jan 13 – Jan 26

January 26, 2014
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What Are You Missing? Jan 13 – Jan 26

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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From Mercury to Mars: After the Martians: The Invasion of “Daytime” in the War of the Worlds Controversy

January 20, 2014
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From Mercury to Mars: After the Martians: The Invasion of “Daytime” in the War of the Worlds Controversy

In this final post in our series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Jennifer Hyland Wang analyzes how responses to the War of the Worlds broadcast exposed much of the gender and class discourses underpinning the American Broadcasting system.
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What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8

December 8, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8

Ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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What Are You Missing? Nov 11 – Nov 24

November 24, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Nov 11 – Nov 24

Ten or more media industry news stories from the past two weeks.
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From Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds and the Invasion of Media Studies

November 11, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: <i>War of the Worlds</i> and the Invasion of Media Studies

In this latest post in our From Mercury to Mars series, Josh Shepperd discusses the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a foundational subject for intellectual history and, as the subject of social research like Hadley Cantril's The Invasion from Mars, one of the events that legitimated the very study of media.
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What Are You Missing? Oct 28 – Nov 10

November 10, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Oct 28 – Nov 10

Here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27

October 27, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Sept 16 – Sept 29

September 29, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Sept 16 – Sept 29

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Why Verizon v. FCC Matters for Net Neutrality— and Why It Doesn’t

September 6, 2013
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Why Verizon v. FCC Matters for Net Neutrality— and Why It Doesn’t

The policy battle over net neutrality is heating back up with the hearing in Verizon v. FCC. Here's what's at stake in the case.
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