Radio’s Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy
ISBN: 9780816695324
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States; Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History;

Jason Loviglio shows how early network radio produced a new type of community marked by contradictions and tensions between public and private, mass media and democracy, and nation and family. Examining a broad range of radio programs, including Vox Pop, and FDR's Fireside Chats, Radio's Intimate Public illustrates how media space promised listeners a fantasy of social mobility and access.


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