In the first post in our "Honoring Hilmes" series, Bill Kirkpatrick argues that the quality of Michele Hilmes’ scholarship is undisputed, yet the example of her great work alone is not why Radio Studies is now thriving. It is also because Hilmes has done the (arguably much harder) work of field-building.
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A Voice Made for Radio Studies: Michele Hilmes and the Building of a Discipline
Radio Studies at SCMS: From Justification to Exploration
Bill Kirkpatrick continues our week-long series of reports from the SCMS 2015 conference. He argues that radio studies within SCMS is coming into its own, and the Society is better for it.
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Radio at SCMS 2013
Some thoughts on the current state of qualitative radio scholarship, plus a line-up of radio studies related papers, panels, and events at this year's SCMS conference.
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A Remediation Meditation: The Aca-Media Podcast
It’s the kind of delicious irony that we broadcast historians relish: in order to move boldly into the future and expand on the cutting edge of communications technology, Cinema Journal has started a radio show. Aca-Media (officially: “Cinema Journal Presents Aca-Media”) is a new monthly podcast covering current media studies scholarship, issues in the...
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On Radio: Strange Bedfellows
Clear Channel has figured out how to profit from college radio. Can college radio survive its embrace?
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Late to the Party: Dirty Dancing
With a title like that, it was bound to either be more dirty or less dirty than I expected.
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The ACTA Retreat: Their Ignorance, And Ours
The ACTA retreat is indicative of a larger crisis in how media policy works today. Specifically: we have no idea how media policy works today.
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One Future of Network Television: A Literal Cottage Industry
At the TWiT Cottage and around the web, a new kind of network television is taking hold.
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Report from the Fiske Matters Conference
Ten years after John Fiske's retirement from academia, three generations of colleagues and students assess his legacy and ongoing relevance
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Greetings from National Broadband Plan, Ohio!
What the FCC, which received lackluster response to its announcement that it wanted to bring 100-megabit broadband to American homes, can learn from Google.
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