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Der Bauernkrieg: Ein Medienereignis
Freiburg et al.: Herder (2025), 544 pp.
"Der Bauernkrieg bildet neben der Reformation die Schwelle zur Neuzeit. Anders als die Reformatoren aber können seine Protagonisten ihre teilweise modern klingenden Forderungen nicht durchsetzen. Die Erhebung der Bauern wird blutig niedergeschlagen. Der Bauernkrieg wurde immer auch ideologisch inte
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The Information Animal
La Vergne: C. Hurst and Company (2025), 314 pp.
"Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response to emerging technology’s ‘unprecedented’ threats actually follows a pattern as old as civilisation. From ancient Athens to COVID-19, social media to spam, Alicia Wanless shows how humans have al
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Talking Images: The Interface between Drawing and Writing
New York: Routledge (2025), xiv, 250 pp.
"This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries. The volume seeks to extend the boundaries of our understanding of what language and writ
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
London: Vintage, new ed. (2025), xxxii, 507 pp.
"For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of A
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Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History
Champaign: University of Illinois Press (2023), 287 pp.
"The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communicatio
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Early Radio in Late Colonial India: Historiography, Geography, Audiences
In: Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 199-219
"Tracing the institutional history of the radio allowed scholars in the past to analyse the radio as an instrument of the colonial government in India and to show, for example, how the radio in the Indian subcontinent was deployed as part of the British Empire’s propaganda in the colony. As Gupta
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Cem anos da revolução de 1923: História, mídia e cultura
Porto Alegre: Editora Meridional (2023), 139 pp.
"This paper has used a series of historical sources, mainly in the Persian language, to explore the one-century history of Afghanistan’s media. The country has 150 years of media history, of which a century has occurred during the monarchy's political system. This study explains the chronological
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Empire and Communications
Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2022), lx, 228 pp.
"Originally published in 1950, Harold A. Innis’s Empire and Communications is considered to be one of the classic works in media studies, yet its origins have received little attention. Ambitious in its scope, the book spans five millennia, tracing a path of development around the globe from 2900
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Building an Imperial Broadcasting Network as the Empire Disintegrated: The Birth of Radio in the French Sub-Saharan African Colonies During Decolonization
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 120-135
"Whereas France owned the second most important empire in the world in 1945, the colonial domination paradoxically leaned very little on radio broadcasting. It was not until 1954 that the French governement, under the impulsion of Pierre Schaeffer, inventor of the “musique concrète,” launched a
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A Polycentric Broadcasting Model: Radio and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonialism
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 10-25
"The article demonstrates how Portugal lacked a true policy of imperial broadcasting which led it to become dependent on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. The broadcasters established in the Portuguese Empire dedicated significant airtime to the dissemination of Portugal’s co
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100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland
Deep Insights
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv (DRA) (2022), 279 pp.
"Im Oktober 1923 ging das erste offizielle deutsche Rundfunkprogramm auf Sendung. Auch 100 Jahre später ist das Radio nicht aus der Medienwelt wegzudenken, ob als Informationsquelle, Kulturproduzent oder musikalischer Tagesbegleiter. Stets im Zeichen politischer, gesellschaftlicher und technischer
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La radio en Bucaramanga: Vidas y sonidos de ciudad ...
[author] (2022), 153 pp.
"Este libro se lee con mucha facilidad y nos describe con gran amplitud y rigurosidad investigativa ese paisaje mediático de la ciudad, donde conviven la expresión pública, la comercial y la comunitaria. Es un texto que nos cuenta que la radio sigue vigente y muy presente en la vida de la gente,
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Novo rádio, velhas narrativas: Apropriações estéticas na ficção e no jornalismo sonoros
Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior; LabCom (2022), 131 pp.
"[...] partimos da hipótese de que as produções sonoras contemporâneas (dramas e podcasts de storytelling), que se configuram como produções de aprofundamento e que têm deadlines mais amplos, realizam uma reapropriação estética das estratégias e ferramentas expressivas das radionovelas da
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Auf Empfang! Die Geschichte von Radio und Fernsehen. Katalog zur großen Sonderausstellung 2022
Darmstadt; Mannheim: wbg Theiss; Technoseum (2022), 276 pp.
"Am 29. Oktober 1923 nahm der erste deutsche Radio sender einen regelmäßigen Programmbetrieb auf. Dies gilt vielen als Geburtsstunde des öffentlichen Rundfunks in Deutschland. Das 100-jährige Jubiläum im Jahr 2023 bietet dem Technoseum den Anlass, der Geschichte von Radio und Fernsehen eine eig
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Dutch Speaking to Dutch. Broadcasts from the Netherlands to Indonesia During the Decolonization War (1945–1949)
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 42-60
"Dutch international radio broadcaster Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW) was founded in 1947, during the decolonization war in Indonesia. This paper explores the nature of the broadcasts to Indonesia in the early years of RNW. It is argued that these broadcasts must be seen in the context of the Du
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Broadcasting Special Issue
Women’s History Today, volume 3, issue 5 (2022), pp. 4-52
‘Feminine Frequencies’: Gender, Radio, and the Auditory Culture of Revolution in 1940s China / 4
Frocks And Powder Puffs / 13
María Luisa Ross: Mexican Educator, Writer and Radio Station Manager / 23
Cathleen Nesbitt: Britain’s First Radio Drama Producer / 32
‘Women on the Air’: A Contrib
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Broadcasting and the Portuguese Empire: The Case of São Tomé and Príncipe
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 136-155
"The colonial essence of the Portuguese nation was one of the pillars of Estado Novo (1933–1974). During this period, the media were largely used as a tool for promoting the cohesion of the territories, firstly embodying an Imperial mystique, and after the second World War, arguing for the excepti
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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
New York: Basic Books (2022), 514 pp.
"In 'Free Speech', Jacob Mchangama traces the long, contested history of a powerful idea, beginning with its origins in the intellectual ferment of classical Athens, where it enabled the development of the world's first democracy. Through captivating stories of defenders of free speech throughout hi
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