Broadcasting the 'Voice of Science' on America's Town Meeting of the Air: Public Education, Popular Entertainment, and Post-World War II Scientific Ambivalence.
This article examines the relationship between radio broadcasting and post-World War II discourses of scientific and technological ambivalence, specifically looking at a special broadcast of the America's Town Meeting of the Air radio discussion program conducted at the 1946 George Westinghouse Cent...
| Publicado en: | Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 460 - 480 |
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Jun2023
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