Author: Yuting Le

Does television ruin public discourse?

In the year of 1941, television was first licensed for commercial broadcasting. Since then, a broad array of new ways to entertain have been introduced to ordinary Americans’ lives (Gentzkow, 2006). Criticizers and researchers condemned that it fashions an entertaining culture which ruins public discourse. As Postman(1985) argued in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, […]

Revolutions and Meanings of Radio

The invention of radio broadcasting took a long time. In the year of 1864, British scientist James Clerk Maxwell conjured that ” an electromagnetic disturbance travels in free space with the velocity of light”. Then 24 years later, Heinrich Hertz confirmed his speculation by discovering electromagnetic waves (Sengupta & Sarkar, 2003). In 1895, Alexander S. […]