Bruce B. Campbell

The Radio Hobby, Private Associations, and the Challenge of Modernity in Germany

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-030-26536-6
EAN: 9783030265366
Produktnummer: 35118200
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 380 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.0 cm 491 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 491

Über den Autor

Bruce B. Campbell is Professor of German Studies at William & Mary, USA. He has published on the Nazi Stormtroopers and German detective fiction as well as radio.