Introduction: Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Encounters with an Old Medium

Abstract

Over the course of the last decade, radio scholars have increasingly demonstrated that radio has long been entwined in networks and relationships beyond those framed by nations-and that even the national structures of radio were formed in transnational processes (

Developing Radio Histories

“…One fruitful approach has been to consider radio as a transnational medium, transcending the tendency to consider the medium in its national contexts only. 10 This idea has yielded compelling studies of the meaning of radio in various aspects of international relations, such as, for example, European integration and the British Empire. 11 Other scholars have been expanding on the bottom-up approach of cultural studies and explore the overlaps and interactions between technology, social (listening) behaviour, cultural identities and mentalities.…”