Utopías espectrales: la radio comunitaria en los Estados Unidos, desde 1970 hasta nuestros días

Christina Dunbar-Hester

doi:10.36132/hao.vi54.2004

Autores/as

Christina Dunbar-Hester University of Southern California https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3898-7245

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36132/hao.vi54.2004

Palabras clave:

radio comunitaria, , historia de la radiodifusión, micro-radio, FM de baja potencia (LPFM), brutalidad policial

Resumen

En el aniversario del primer siglo de radiodifusión, este artículo analiza la formación de la radiodifusión en los Estados Unidos, y los movimientos de radio libre, micro-radio y FM de baja potencia (LPFM) como momentos clave de la radiodifusión a pequeña escala y no comercial. Introducido en el año 2000, el servicio de LPFM contiene lecciones para el panorama de los medios de comunicación en el segundo siglo de radiodifusión. En un entorno de radiodifusión muy consolidado, con importantes barreras de entrada y en un entorno on line dominado por grandes plataformas comerciales que mantienen e intermedian algorítmicamente las comunicaciones en línea, la radio comunitaria no comercial se destaca como un modelo muy diferente de infraestructura de comunicación, con un compromiso declarado de llevar a cabo relaciones comunitarias democráticas

Biografía del autor/a

Christina Dunbar-Hester, University of Southern California

Christina Dunbar-Hester es la autora de Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton U Press, 2020) y Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism (MIT Press, 2014). Es profesora en la Annenberg School of Communication de la University of Southern California, en Los Ángeles, EEUU, y doctora en Science & Technology Studies por la Cornell University, EEUU. Sus trabajos se centran en los usos políticos de las tecnologías en la cultura, especialmente en los activismos de los medios de comunicación y la tecnología, las infraestructuras y las articulaciones entre tecnología y medioambiente.

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