now more than ever

This is my blog for collecting research, asking questions and pursuing my study of radio as part of my doctoral studies program. Even in this digital age, when we might be tempted to dismiss radio as 'old-school', we are use radio wave technology every day in our wireless devices, radio waves bring messages back from the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission and in conjunction with the Web, even a small LPFM station can have a global reach.

I am interested in pursuing and promoting the experience of sound-without-image, deliberately and reflectively because I have a suspicion that in sound there are vast treasures yet to discover. More specifically I am interested in a revival of radio in the digital age, and even more specifically a revival of college LPFM stations and the deliberate promotion of 24-hour college radio programming all across the country.

a few of my reasons:
corporate radio is a wasteland of hucksterism, homogenization and sloganeering
radio is relatively inexpensive and reliable, especially in emergencies
youth voices are essential to democratic dialog & evolution
sharing of student-teacher collaborative research in well-designed programs