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Presencia (Newspaper, Bolivia)
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Catholic Radios
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Radio Sutatenza (ACPO) (Colombia)
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Camus, Mwissa (1931- )
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Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610)
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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 ... more

Colombia en el espejo: 70 años de televisión

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe (2024), 243 pp.

Early Radio in Late Colonial India: Historiography, Geography, Audiences

In: Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
iris Haukamp; Christin Hoene; Martyn David Smith (eds.)
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 ... more

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 ... more

A Century of Struggle: Afghanistan's Media Development Under Monarchies

Xi' an Jiaotong Unviersity - School of Journalism and New Media (2023), 23 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 ... more
"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 ... more

100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland

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 ... more
"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, ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

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 ... more
"[...] 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 ... more
"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 ... more
"Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War E ... more
"This paper discusses how radio during the last decade of Dutch colonial era had served as an agent of nationalism in Indonesia. This paper applies a literature study using a historical approach that focused on Soloche Radio Vereeniging (SRV) and the Eastern Radio network, which were operational fro ... more
"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 ... more
"This article traces how the Afghan cultural, media, and arts sectors have gone through cycles of boom and bust in tandem with the country’s tumultuous history in recent decades, starting with the prewar golden era in the 1960s and 1970s, then focusing on the post-9/11 internationally funded media ... more
"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 ... more
"La elección de la temática de esta convocatoria fue incitada por la conmemoración de los 70 años de la primera transmisión televisiva en el país realizada el 17 de octubre de 1951 por Canal 7 de Buenos Aires que era dependiente de LR3 Radio Belgrano, de propiedad del Estado nacional y que est ... more