This dissertation explores media framing of conflict and peace in post-September 11, 2001 Afghanistan. The media selected for this study included: the BBC Pashto Service and Azadi Radio at the international level; Tehran's Pashto Radio at the regional level; National Radio and T…
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This dissertation is intended as an ethnomusicological contribution to the history of music and media in Indonesia. It deals with topics and resources that have never been systematically examined for this region: gramophone records and radio broadcasting from the years before Wo…
This thesis aims to identify and explain how, through the consumption of the wireless as a modern consumer durable, modernism was brought to society. To understand this process, the study will map how social change during the period responded to wider intellectual and aesthetic …
In the 1980s the future of public service broadcasting in Britain was called into doubt. Technological developments in cable, satellite and digital technologies were, it was argued, poised to end the condition known as 'spectrum scarcity'; while the emergence of a neo-liberal Co…
The first part of this dissertation presents an all-digital modulator to be used in a software-defined radio (SDR) transmitter. A digital-controlled oscillator (DCO) followed by two digital phase rotators (DPR) are the main building blocks. The DCO and DPRs are enclosed, respect…
What is meant by the “time of the now?” What constitutes a “unique experience with the past” first delineated by Benjamin and then propelled forward by Bhabha into a post-colonial context? What justifies the necessity of a hermeneutic capable of “blast(ing) open the continuum of…
The early 1990s saw the collapse of undemocratic régimes across Africa. Suddenly, where single-party systems, racial dictatorships, or military rulers had offered them no such options before, citizens had opportunities to choose between myriad parties at the polls and to hold th…
Currently, 3G and beyond cellular wireless networks supporting heterogeneous traffic with variable quality of service (QoS) requirements is already a reality. Efficient bandwidth utilization is the most important requirement for a radio resource management (RRM) technique along …
This dissertation is a study of popular music and state-controlled radio broadcasting in the Arabic-speaking world, focusing on Syria and the Syrian radioscape, and a set of American stations named Radio Sawa. I examine American and Syrian politically directed broadcasts as mult…
Sudan has been embroiled in civil war for fifty years. The peace agreement of 2005 finally brought this war to an end. This research explores how radio has informed audience perceptions and interpretations on issues of peace and conflict. This research draws on peace and conflic…
This thesis deals with the ground-based fully polarimetric system of its design and construction arrangement. The asserted system is conducted for short range operation and adequately determines the complete polarimetric images of various natural targets. The system will be oper…
This dissertation examines the relationship between media and political power in the Middle East between state and non-state actors between 1952-2011. For the past seventy years in the Middle East, state actors (i.e. a nation-state’s government or leader) have used radio, televi…
In the late 20th century, the global economy experienced a radical shift due to widespread deregulation and, subsequently, rapid financialization. Examining archival and contemporary trade magazines and corporate reports, this project considers the interconnections between telev…
In a 1969 interview with Don Finegan and others, composer John Cage voiced his disdain for electronic broadcast forms, declaring, “I don’t keep any records” and “I don’t even bother looking at the television anymore. I don’t ever listen to the radio. You could say, perhaps, that…
Reunified through Radio: Media, Technology, and Politics in Modern China 1923–1958 reinterprets the rise of mass media and mass politics in China through the lens of communication technology. Radio first arrived in China in the winter of 1922–23, bursting into a world where comm…
This dissertation investigates the cultural significance of legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey. Harvey's voice and rhetoric have echoed posthumously in the conservative Christian soundscape in ways which cite a cultural decay in the United States. At the same time, conserva…
The Americans All, Immigrants All radio series broadcasts were from November 13, 1938 to May 7, 1939. These live shows, and later recordings, told stories of immigrants and how they helped to shape our young country. These complex stories were of the achievements as well as the …
This project centers set design as the primary aesthetic, economic, and sociopolitical driver of the sitcom genre’s emergence and development during the first half of the twentieth century. My work treats sitcom set design as a category of historical architecture that can be (an…
Between 1927 and 1987, American broadcast regulators undertook a project for radio. The project pursued multiple goals: to allocate wavelengths, to hold stations accountable to the public interest, to restrict prejudicial content, to protect domestic wavelengths from internation…