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

• Autore: LaFollette Marcel C (Marcel Chotkowski)
• 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
• ISBN: 1-282-23971-6; 9786612239717; 0-226-46695-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823642903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II