The radio hobby, private associations, and the challenge of modernity in Germany / Bruce B. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Bruce, 1955- author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizens band radio--Germany--History--20th century.

Citizens band radio.

Radio--Social aspects--Germany--History--19th century.

Radio.

Radio--Social aspects.

History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

369 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood. A powerful symbol of modernity, radio was a site where individuals wrestled and came to terms with an often frightening wave of new mass technologies. Radio was the object of scientific investigation, but more importantly, it was the domain of tinkerers, “hackers,” citizen scientists, and hobbyists. This book shows how this wild and mysterious technology was appropriated by ordinary individuals in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century as a leisure activity. Clubs and hobby organizations became the locus of this process, providing many of the social structures within which individuals could come to grips with radio, apart from any media institution or government framework. In so doing, this book uncovers the vital but often overlooked social context in which technological revolutions unfold.

Contents:

Introduction

The beginnings: radio in the 1920s

German radio before broadcasting: scientists, war, and imperialism

Technology and the radio hobby mature, 1927-1929

The nazification of the radio clubs, 1929-1935

The radio hobby in the service of national socialism, 1935-1945

The radio hobby comes in from the cold, 1945-1955

Conclusions and questions

Archives, libraries, and private collections

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-347) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030265335

3030265331

OCLC:

1106176243