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Wireless telephone, materiality, and making of the national auditory in Turkey.
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Media, Culture & Society . Sep2023, Vol. 45 Issue 6, p1225-1241. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper focuses on the radio's novelty years in 1920s Turkey to examine how the functions of wireless technology as a material artifact are negotiated in ways that fashion a national auditory. Most studies on radio's history prioritize sound, eliding people's tinkering with the wireless as a technical object. Based on archival research and oral history interviews, I suggest that early radio as a material object required as much of its listeners' attention as did the broadcast content. In young Turkey's war-torn economy, the only affordable way to listen to radio was learning how to assemble a receiver. Few owners of manufactured radios also learnt how to fix frequent problems. To form a passive national auditory, the state monitored the cultivation of these technical skills by banning transmitter-construction while encouraging assembling/fixing receivers. In addition to the body's visceral/affective capacities, then, nation-states also discipline technical skills while forming a national auditory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ORAL history
*TELEPHONES
*TELEPHONE calls
*ARCHIVAL research
*NATION-state
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01634437
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Media, Culture & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171309315
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231159540