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Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism (Inside Technology),Used
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An examination of how activists combine political advocacy and technical practice in their promotion of the emancipatory potential of local lowpower FM radio.The United States ushered in a new era of smallscale broadcasting in 2000 when it began issuing lowpower FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial radio stations around the country. Over the next decade, several hundred of these newly created lowwattage stations took to the airwaves. In Low Power to the People, Christina DunbarHester describes the practices of an activist organization focused on LPFM during this era. Despite its origins as a pirate broadcasting collective, the group eventually shifted toward building and expanding regulatory access to new, licensed stations. These radio activists consciously cast radio as an alternative to digital utopianism, promoting an understanding of electronic media that emphasizes the local community rather than a global audience of Internet users.DunbarHester focuses on how these radio activists impute emancipatory politics to the old medium of radio technology by promoting the idea that microradio broadcasting holds the potential to empower ordinary people at the local community level. The group's methods combine political advocacy with a rare commitment to handson technical work with radio hardware, although the activists' handson, inclusive ethos was hampered by persistent issues of race, class, and gender.DunbarHester's study of activism around an old medium offers broader lessons about how political beliefs are expressed through engagement with specific technologies. It also offers insight into contemporary issues in media policy that is particularly timely as the FCC issues a new round of LPFM licenses.
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