CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Consumerism, Dxing, Susan Douglas Rubes
16 Nov 2020
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Early radio by susan douglas: crystal sets, crystal sets. Normally was the use of teenage boys kept in the garage or something. You"d have to get a kit to assemble it had to use headphones. Advertising supported broadcasting was controversial and debated in the 1920s. But with the speakers, it was a communal thing method of financial support unfixed. There weren"t any networks or anything, nothing was fixed: the popularity made everyone rush to start stations, now we forget that radio is supported by advertising and promotes compulsive consumerism. At&t started the ad radio thing: radio because a culturally nationalizing force. Shows sought to capture and represent a national culture: three stages of listening in the 1920s 1.
