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High Speed Access: Micro Radio, Action, And Activism On The Internet, Ted M. Coopman
High Speed Access: Micro Radio, Action, And Activism On The Internet, Ted M. Coopman
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During the spring and summer of 1999, the Low Power Radio Service Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) recently drew a record number of responses. Several thousand people from all over the country participated in what has traditionally been the purview of major corporations and institutions, including 1120 individuals who signed the Micro Radio Empowerment Coalition comments. This paper examines that response and its implications for the micro radio and other activist movements. The Internet played an important role not only in filing responses, but in drafting and signing responses as well. For example, the …
Hardware Handshake: Listserv Forms Backbone Of National Free Radio Network, Ted M. Coopman
Hardware Handshake: Listserv Forms Backbone Of National Free Radio Network, Ted M. Coopman
Faculty Publications
During the spring and summer of 1999, the Low Power Radio Service Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) recently drew a record number of responses. Several thousand people from all over the country participated in what has traditionally been the purview of major corporations and institutions, including 1120 individuals who signed the Micro Radio Empowerment Coalition comments. This paper examines that response and its implications for the micro radio and other activist movements. The Internet played an important role not only in filing responses, but in drafting and signing responses as well. For example, the …