The Radio: The First Truly Equal Means of Communication

For my final podcast, I chose the invention of the radio as a superior communications revolution. Unlike its predecessors, the radio can be engaged with in a significantly more accessable manner when compared to the invention of the printing press, the republic of letters, and the rise of the newspaper. I hope you enjoy getting to hear my thoughts on how the radio forever changed the way in which we recieve information.

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Jordan E. Taylor, “The Reign of Error: North American Information Politics and the French Revolution, 1789–1795” The Journal of the Early Republic vol. 39, no. 3 (2019): 437–466.,

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat 7: On the Works Relief Program and Social Security Act” (April 1935): 0:00-0:25.,

Stephen Smith & Kate Ellis, “The First Family of Radio: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s Historic Broadcasts” (Novemeber 2014).