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Science on the air : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television / / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette



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Autore: LaFollette Marcel C (Marcel Chotkowski) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Science on the air : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television / / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
Disciplina: 509.73/0904
Soggetto topico: Science news - United States - History
Communication in science - United States - History
Radio - United States - History
Television - United States - History
Classificazione: AP 35160
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Tuxedos and microphones -- The radio nature league -- Syndicating science -- Cooperative ventures -- Shifting ground -- A twist of the dial -- Facts and fictionalizations -- Adventuring with scientists -- Broadcasting the voice of the atom -- Illusions of actuality -- Epilogue entertaining lessons.
Sommario/riassunto: Mr. Wizard's World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR's Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and "Our Friend the Atom." Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early da
Titolo autorizzato: Science on the air  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-23971-6
9786612239717
0-226-46695-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823642903321
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